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Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five) (Paperback)

by Enid Blyton (Author) "'Mother, have you heard about our summer holidays yet?' ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Children's Books; 2 edition (14 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340796146
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340796146
  • Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 11.1 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 258,577 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The very first Famous Five adventure, featuring Julian, Dick, Anne, not forgetting tomboy George and her beloved dog, Timmy!

There's a shipwreck off Kirrin Island! But where is the treasure? The Famous Five are on the trail - looking for clues - but they're not alone! Someone else has got the same idea. Time is running out for the Famous Five, who will follow the clues and get to the treasure first?

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Exciting new editions of Enid Blyton's most popular series.
New and contemporary cover treatment brings The Famous Five into the 21st Century!
Charming and traditional adventure storylines have been updated for a new generation of readers, continuing their popularity for this new millennium!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic introduction to an innocent world, 19 Aug 2001
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This is the start of a fabulous set of adventures from a world that no longer exsists. Transport yourself back to a world without television or computers and experience the favourite stories from the 1940's
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great children's fiction revisited, 8 Feb 2009
By R. Law (Pembrokeshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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I bought most the famous five series in my youth, the last few titles in the 21-book series as they came out in the early 1960s. Nostalgia forced me to buy a new set, as my younger brother made off with the originals and it was only on re-reading this book for the first time in nearly fifty years that I appreciated what an impact the stories had on my childish mind. To this day I always carry a torch (flashlight), a lighter (instead of matches) and a pen-knife (legislative paranoia accommodated where necessary); not to mention a notebook and a clean handkerchief.

In this opening book of the series, siblings Julian, Dick and Anne are packed off to their Uncle Quentin's on the south coast of England for the summer holiday where they meet Quentin's only daughter Georgina - a tomboy who prefers to be called George. She has a rowing boat and the family has an island with a ruined castle on it and the four of them set off with George's dog Timmy in the boat onto the open sea without lifejackets or safety equipment and the scene is set for their adventures on the island involving an old shipwreck and the treasure in the title.

First published in 1942, there are numerous way of lampooning this novel, the repetitive writing and so forth, but it remains a charming and straightforward story of its time that is easy reading for young children and a nostalgic treat for those of us who read them as children. One point my brother makes, however, is that the text has been edited; some words used in the first editions have been replaced for the sake of political correctness due to the evolution of our language. An event that the famous five might describe as "queer" in the 1940s becomes "strange" in later editions. It's a few small changes like that, in a bid to update the text that the adult re-reader might notice. I am sure this is an acceptable way of presenting Enid Blyton's work to a new young audience. After all, the Bible is re-translated to keep its meaning clear as the sense of words used in earlier editions changes. Genesis 3.7 "breeches" was superseded by "aprons" in the Authorized version and becomes "coverings" in the New International version. That Enid Blyton needed a little updating is a reflection of her continuing popularity forty years after she stopped writing.
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