The Castle Of Adventure (Adventure Series)

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There is just one surprise in this story and that too a small one. This was one of the reasons I liked to read it so many times – because nothing is lost by having it read it already. Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's. Dinah Mannering: Philip's younger sister of about twelve at the beginning of the series. Like her brother, she has a tuft of hair standing up atop her head, but she shares neither his gift in attracting, nor his love for, animals, especially the small creeping types (mice, insects, snakes etc.). Temperamental as she is, she often finds herself the target of her brother's teasing, but otherwise she is quite level-headed, tough, intelligent and grown-up for her age.

The children run across good old Bill "Smugs" in a nearby town, and he invites them to lunch at a posh hotel. The Castle of Adventure Review by Keith Robinson (March 25, 2005) The actors fitted the characters perfectly in most cases, and again, where they didn't (such as Tassie) it seemed an improvement or just as good as the original, considering the times. The film has been very gently and effectively modernised (though is more than a decade old now), yet cleverly manages to remain true to the book at the same time.If you cannot open a .mobi file on your mobile device, please use .epub with an appropriate eReader. I love all books by Enid Blyton. I first read this book about 35 years ago. I still love it 35 years hence. The adventures the four children had in the castle on the hill have engrossed my sister and me for a long time. The boldness of the children to explore things on their own, the courage to enter a castle which looked scary and overgrown, and their adventurous spirt all fascinated me as a child and still do. I loved the character of Philip because I am an animal lover myself. My only disappointment is that my daughters do not appreciate Enid Blyton's style of writing as much as I did at their age. They tell me they can't relate to things written in her books and perhaps its true. For those were the good old days , This is got to be one of my favourite Enid Blyton books. I really like most of the Adventure series, But this is my favourite one of all of them.

When Bill buys a plane, he decides to take the four children for a holiday, but events at the airport lead to the four getting into the wrong plane. When the plane lands they find themselves in an unfamiliar valley scarred by war and, once again, the four children fall into an adventure involving a lost treasure sought by a band of villains. Bill Cunningham: An important member (holding the rank of inspector) of an unspecified secret service force (possibly based upon the British Secret Intelligence Service). His most prominent bodily feature is his half-bald head. He meets the children upon their very first adventure and makes regular appearances in the series from that point on. Mostly the children get tangled up in adventures which are connected with Bill's work at the time and end up solving them for him. Terrestrial repeats of the series were unknown once it was aired. However, a year later, a video was released, although some scenes were edited out, and it aired on The Children's Channel after TVS had lost its ITV franchise. Along with TVS' other programmes, it has been kept off the DVD market for complicated legal reasons, but is available on YouTube.

All in all, this is a very good successor to The Island of Adventure, although perhaps not quite as good. And I found it a little coincidental that the children happened to run into Bill Smugs, who happened to be after the same men the children had spotted at the castle. But this is a minor quibble. And the ending of this book – the thunderstorm, and the destruction! – is superb, even more exciting than the ending of the previous book!

The Castle of Adventure (published in 1946) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the second book in The Adventure Series. The first edition of the book was illustrated by Stuart Tresilian. The eagles are surprised and puzzled by Kiki, a bird that can screech like an eagle but talk like a human! According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare. If Is actually almost scary in parts. Maybe it’s because I’m looking at them from an adult perspective now, the mess the kids are in, the creeping sense of danger earlier in the book, the slightly claustrophobic feelings. Very good. Very well written.Recovering from a very bad flu, the four children and their family make a river trip in the Middle East. But there is another reason for this choice of destination: Bill has been asked to watch a crook named Raya Uma. The children soon find another adventure revolving around a magnificent buried city filled with treasure beyond imagination. This book also has secret passages and hidden rooms. There is again pulse pounding action in the last part of the book - tussle with the bad guys as well as fleeing from a cataclysmic disaster. The stories show the four children off on their own, discovering and solving mysteries without much adult assistance. Although the publication dates span a decade, Blyton reportedly wrote each of the novels in less than a week. I just have to make comment on bill smugs. I remember him in The ship of adventure. A slightly odd character who makes himself quite comfortable in the house the children are staying in even though no one is there. He seems so hugely unconcerned about the children’s welfare it made me laugh a lot.🤣 Originally, the series was supposed to end after this episode, but under the great demand of dedicated fans, Blyton wrote two more episodes: