- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Children's Books; New Ed edition (14 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340796170
- ISBN-13: 978-0340796177
- Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 11.1 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 147,440 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Who's been on George's island? And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they're on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream ...
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Enid Blyton died in 1968 but remains one of the best-known and best-loved writers of children’s stories. She is consistently voted a children’s favourite in author polls. She has over 600 children’s books to her credit, including the Famous Five series, the Secret Seven series, the Naughtiest Girl series (all Hodder) and the Malory Towers and St Clare series (both available from Hodder on audio).
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'George dear, do settle down and do something,' said George's mother. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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'George dear, do settle down and do something,' said George's mother. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the third book of the 21 Famous Five books and it is about when George's mother falls ill with a fever and has to go to hospital so her father hires a cook and cleaner and her family. The lady's name is Mrs. Stick, she is very sour-faced and she has a son called Edgar. They steal things at Kirrin Cottage when the famous five run away to Kirrin Island. But The Stick family are taking all of the loot to the island and Timmy scares away the thieves and the scream was of a little girl captured by the Sticks. The rating for this book from my point of view is 9/10.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is thebest one I have read and I have read books 1-8. The story starts when The famous five go to stay at Kirrin cottage and the cook is Mrs stick is the cook but she knows how to do more than just cook
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book involves unlikeable one dimensional characters in a predictable plot. What Blyton fails to grasp is that to have any suspense in a thriller you have to have some doubt as to who the baddies might be. In the preceding (second) book the only significant character apart from the children and George's parents is the dog-hating tutor Mr Roland, who to no reader's surprise turns out to be the villain of the piece. In this book there are no other characters at all apart from the Stick family, who apart from having a silly name also don't like the children or their dog. One of them (horror of horrors) even has some pimples and isn't very good looking.
So it comes as a surprise to no one at all when the Stick family turn out to be the baddies. That's not to say the children are angels. Julian is as smug and arrogant as ever and is rude to the Stick son (for being smelly and not very good looking) even before the latter has been properly introduced as a character. Anne remains terminally wet while Dick has no discernible characteristics at all.
Add to this the fact that the dialogue and plots are so horribly dated, oddly much more so than a lot of older fiction. The lashings of ginger beer angle was well satirised by the comedy store but it is hard to believe that people actually behaved like this even in the 50s. Contemporaneous fiction like William and Jennings are also dated but at least the characters are credible and a little less one dimensional. When the baddies are locked in a bedroom at the end of the second book they don't break the door down, smash a window to get out or even shout and swear, they sit patiently in the room for 24 hours until the police come to arrest them.
The first book in this series wasn't bad, the second was worse and this one is just rubbish. It might have been Ok for kids 60-70 years ago but 8-10 year olds can read people like Anthony Horowitz these days and there is no comparison. Curiously the same author's 'Mystery of ..'/Five find Outers and Dog books aimed at a similar aged audience have worn much better. I'm not sure why this one is so bad but having read three of them to my kids at bedtime and found each of them significantly worse than the one before I'm not looking forward to the rest. Maybe this is just a particularly dud book...
So it comes as a surprise to no one at all when the Stick family turn out to be the baddies. That's not to say the children are angels. Julian is as smug and arrogant as ever and is rude to the Stick son (for being smelly and not very good looking) even before the latter has been properly introduced as a character. Anne remains terminally wet while Dick has no discernible characteristics at all.
Add to this the fact that the dialogue and plots are so horribly dated, oddly much more so than a lot of older fiction. The lashings of ginger beer angle was well satirised by the comedy store but it is hard to believe that people actually behaved like this even in the 50s. Contemporaneous fiction like William and Jennings are also dated but at least the characters are credible and a little less one dimensional. When the baddies are locked in a bedroom at the end of the second book they don't break the door down, smash a window to get out or even shout and swear, they sit patiently in the room for 24 hours until the police come to arrest them.
The first book in this series wasn't bad, the second was worse and this one is just rubbish. It might have been Ok for kids 60-70 years ago but 8-10 year olds can read people like Anthony Horowitz these days and there is no comparison. Curiously the same author's 'Mystery of ..'/Five find Outers and Dog books aimed at a similar aged audience have worn much better. I'm not sure why this one is so bad but having read three of them to my kids at bedtime and found each of them significantly worse than the one before I'm not looking forward to the rest. Maybe this is just a particularly dud book...
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