The Island of Adventure (The Adventure Series)

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Of course, after a while you find out it's just Kiki the parrot, sitting on a branch above, but by then I think a reader would be suitably drawn in.

Blyton's imagination has really run away with her, and reading the book you begin to feel as if you are really there, looking over the misty ocean towards the Isle of Gloom through a slit shaped window at th We start off the book with two separate sets of children (not very happily) living with aunts and uncles. Blyton is, after all, an author about whom the current debate is whether to mock her or despise her. Craggy-Tops overlooks the mysterious Isle of Gloom — an island shrouded in mist and spray, and surrounded by a reef of rocks. As I said earlier, the handyman, Joe, is a real stick-in-the-mud, always telling stories about "weird things" over on the Isle of Gloom to keep nosey children from prying.Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.

It’s mentioned that the day before the ‘rat incident’ he had a large and peculiarly coloured caterpillar up his sleeve. First, it’s possible for a book to be very well written and still superficial – while there are excellent books written for childen learning to read, for instance (books that amuse, excite and engage their target audience with great skill), none of those are very deep or complex! The Boys Clubs of America gave this work a Junior Book Club Medal in 1947 under the title Mystery Island. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original powder blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back and front. A lovely, unadulterated copy (no text changes unlike later editions to make the story more "PC" Beige boards, illustrated front board, spine and throughout.Jo-Jo is a cold, calculating and intelligent man who plays the ‘stupid servant’ role beautifully so he can stay at Craggy-Tops without anyone suspecting he is up to anything. Philip and Dinah's mother takes the four on a summer adventure to a valley in the countryside overlooked by an ominous abandoned castle.