It's WAAAY more obvious and less subtle in this book than in any of the others and that really messed with my enjoyment.ģ. Unfortunately, that's not enough to make up for Diana being singled out to not participate in the adventures because you know- she's a girl. The legend of the bells and how it's utilized and toes in with the story, the secret passages/bolt holes and the kids going around piecing together information from all of the old people in the town.Ģ. There are a lot of themes/scenes in here that I appreciated. They find secret passages with exits into wells and kidnapped policemen in mortal danger.ġ. Plot: Three kids on recuperating vacation team up with circus boy and monkey to investigate mysterious sounds. Clare's.Īccording to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.īlyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years.

This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters.

Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.īorn in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading.

The circus of adventure by enid blyton