Comments on: Things We Learned from The Famous Five

By: Veronika

Veronika — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:32:51 +0000

awww I love those books!:)

By: Chica

Chica — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:00:27 +0000

This is beyond awesome! I was a huge fan of them when I was younger, i think my work colleagues think i’m insane now, nearly choked on 27 – i could never work out why our dog couldn’t climb up the steps on our slide )

By: Camilla

Camilla — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:58:10 +0000

Brilliant! I’m glad I’m not the only one who still reads kids books. I loved The Secret Island and my son got all the Adventure series for Christmas.

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:22:57 +0000

Angela – don’t worry, the animal friends were never seriously harmed. One of the other things we can learn from the Famous Five is that if your dog attacks an arch villain, even if the villlain is carrying a gun, the most he will do is knock the dog on the head and lock it in a cave. The dog will recover quickly and the villian will bring it dog biscuits and water, so all will be well!

Mum – I manage to restrain myself these days because I somehow don’t find Anne as annoying as I used to. George is still the best, though.

Fi – I haven’t read that one, but I’m totally going to buy it now

Caroline – I haven’t read Swallows and Amazons either, which is surprising because it sounds like it would be right up my secret underground street. Going to add them to my reading list, too.

Honey – read more! You will love them!

Erin – Lol! I’d imagine it would have been much more difficult for Enid to write her books in the modern world. It just wouldn’t have been the same if the Five could have whgipped out their mobiles and called for help. Mind you, they probably wouldn’t have, because only children can defeat smugglers, as we know. Does GPS work in secret passages under the sea?

By: Fi

Fi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:41:28 +0000

I had totally forgotten about the Far Away Tree books until I read this. I used to love them and read them over and over when I was a child. I liked the Famous Five and Secret Seven too. One of my particular favourites was the standalone Mr Galliano’s Circus – anyone else remember that one?

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:24:05 +0000

Amber! We’re not alone! Yahooooooo!

I will never stop loving Enid Blyton. I don’t care how camp, old-fashioned, anti-feminist she is, I love love love her!

Oh! And while I do not have a torch in my pocket, I now have a GPS-enabled phone, so I can find my way out of anywhere! )))

By: Mum

Mum — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:56:01 +0000

So funny, I laughed out loud. When you re-read them do you still make comments in the margins when the boys go off to have an adventure and leave the girls behind to make the food?

By: Honey

Honey — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:44:34 +0000

I had ONE famous five book when I was a kid. Loved the hell out of it, though.

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:49:36 +0000

I was more of a Bobbsey Twins/Trixie Belden/Nancy Drew girl myself, but The Famous Five seem like they would have been right up my alley! Although I’m not sure I could have handled the animal friends being poisoned. That’s a bit too tragic!

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:01:40 +0000

Oh, I LOVED Enid Blyton – and this is genius! Can you do Swallows and Amazons next? Pirates and cannibals and getting stranded on islands… surely everyone sent their summers this way?!