Jess, my 7-year old girl, gives it 5 stars.

s while reading:

"Georgina is a girl but she wants to be called 'George'. Is she a tomboy?"

"Who says that boys never cry? The boys in my class cry. A lot!"

"Uncle Quentin is scary!"

"George is a volcano --- she's always angry or is about to get angry."

"How can a kid own an island?"

"Awww, Tim is so cute!"

"Why can't Anne keep a secret? She's such a baby!"

"I it when George took an axe and wrecked the bad guys' motorboat. She's so fierce!"

"I want to read more Famous Five books."

"Why are they famous? Is it because they have adventures?"

"Are they real? No, of course Pokemons are not real!"

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I remember putting this book back down in 2006 because it was "too big" to read. The number of pages of Secret Seven were tiny in comparison to this one.

I was reading a book this summer and not liking the immoral personalities present in there.

Guess, you sometimes need a break from these grown-up melodramas. And who better to go to than Enid?

The treasure hunting and ship wreck brought me back the memories of why I loved the Secret Seven. George and Tim are a delight to watch together. Coming together of all five of them over a beautiful island, fighting off the rogues and the thrill of an adventure -Enid Blyton is an all time classic.

Surely, I am going to read this entire series too.books-we-own105 s Mark LawrenceAuthor 73 books52.8k

The first volume of the 23 Famous Five books sets up a number of patterns and themes that are returned to many times in the series.

It also establishes some basic groundwork that Enid Blyton later forgot and changed, leading to curious inconsistencies.

For example: Julian, Dick, and Anne discover they have a ten year old cousin they have never met. Georgina, daughter of their father's brother Quentin who lives in Kirrin Bay, a region that their own father has only visited once and can remember very little of.

Later we discover that Kirrin Cottage (where Uncle Quentin lives with Aunt Fanny), Kirrin Farm, and Kirrin Island are, or were, all owned by Aunt Fanny's family, along with significant other amounts of land.

But later in the series Julian, Dick and Anne are described as Kirrins (& on one occasion Bancrofts). Which would make Quentin a Kirrin too ... which makes no sense if their father has no association with Kirrin Bay and it was their aunt's family who owned it all...

In this book we see George acquire Timmy the dog, the 5th of the Famous Five. At the start Timmy is staying with the fisher boy Alf, who in later books mysteriously changes his name to James.

We establish George as the hot-tempered girl who wants to be a boy (which I guess these days might have her on a path to gender reassignment -- incidentally we meet at least two other girls who want to be boys in the series and everyone is cool with it but it is specifically stated that a boy can't grow his hair long to be a girl, that would be madness).

We establish Uncle Quentin as a brilliant, forgetful, hot tempered scientist of unknown discipline - this confusion lasts the entire series despite his work being the centre of at least a third of the adventures. I suspect this is in part because Blyton had almost no understanding of science, didn't bother to find out anything as she assumed her readers would not care, and wanted to keep it fluid anyhow so it could spawn plots as required.

We are also introduced to Kirrin Island and its remarkably well preserved castle wherein the children discover the first of their many hoards of gold. In this instance it alleviates the curious poverty of George's father and mother.

The Famous Five are defined by one main characteristic each. Julian is level headed. Dick is good humoured. Anne is compassionate and "girly". George is hotheaded. Timmy is a Swiss Army knife of a dog possessed of vast intelligence and the power to overcome any three men.

Anyway, the action centres on the island. A dodgy sort from London wants to buy it but the children discover his motivation is the rumours of hidden gold, and wouldn't you know it, ten minutes with a spade and the bags of gold are theirs, all theirs!

On this occasion, as on many others in the series, the bad men have guns. There is, to a modern British eye, a ridiculously high prevalence of revolvers in these books. Possibly the proximity of WW2 and the 1940/50s laws actually made this easier to swallow.

Anyway, it's a jolly romp with lots of aspirational goodness for young children, and when I was 9 I was a big fan.

My star rating is fairly arbitrary here.



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This fresh and ingenious children's book is for me, divided into two parts. The first part gets 5 stars from me, but from the point where the children succeed, to past the climax, the book barely holds its own.

I really d the first part. Many of the ideas were more than can be hoped in such a simple book. The children were life. Their holidays's details were evocative. The Kirrin House, the island, the boat and the sea, and the people in the story were distinctive.

But when the villains made their appearance, I felt nothing. I really ought to the climax, but the starkly real world felt a doll's house.

I'm giving the book its due but I also cannot give the book more than it deserves. There were lots of positives to take from the story. I hope to reread this book one day and revisit the premise. For a while it made me feel a wonderstruck person.children decent-enough popular62 s Alan Cotterell535 183

I owe this series a lot. This series is the first series I read well over 40 years ago, installing a love of reading that has stayed with me.

After finishing a brilliant but dark novel, I felt that I needed a palette cleanser. This book and the rest of the 21 book series written between 1942-1963, are perfect for this. It is a very quick and enjoyable read. Set in a different era, with no sign of health and safety, or hint of any danger to young children going off for several days on their own. All wonderful fun, adventure, and some mystery for the summer.

The basic story is that of 4 children aged 10-13? And a dog having lots adventures during their summer holidays, in this case searching for lost gold ingots on a small island.

I had forgotten how much I loved this book, the characters, Enid Blyton's way with words, her vivid descriptions. I felt as if I was there. I escaped from boring, adult life for 183 pages, and it. was. great. I will be re-reading the rest of the series, its great being a child again! With lashings of Ginger Beer.
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This one I remember from my childhood. SPOOK TRAINS!

So, once again the two sets of parents jettison their children at the first opportunity, this time sending them to camp on a wild moor in the care of an old school teacher, Mr Luffy. Quite why this man wants to spend his holiday watching over other people's children remains unclear. Anyway, fortunately his interest is in bugs and beetles rather than young boys or girls, and he is largely absent in the story.

We soon discover that trains run through tunnels under the moor. This is rather mysterious in itself as tunnels are massively expensive things and usually reserved for going through hills. Anyway, let's buy into the premise that a big network of train tunnels run under the moor, some in active use and some disused. They also find a disused railway yard near a tunnel entrance.

The second part of the puzzle is the suspicious affluence of the local farmer whose stepson they befriend.

A mad old man with a wooden leg introduces them to the idea of spook trains running on disused lines with no lights. Conflict arises because George, though "only a girl" wants to come with the boys to watch for the alleged spook train. They don't let her.

Predictably the spook train is spotted, but when the boys explore the tunnel it went into it seems to have vanished.

Separately George and the boys discover the hiding place, get captured, and find that the unreasonably rich farmer is involved. Anne mostly stays at the camp and cooks and tidies. Though she does bring Mr Luffy and the police into play at the end.

Oh yes, there are natural caves linked to the tunnel, because EB finds it very hard to write a Famous Five book without a cave in it.

The whole train business is rather far fetched. In order to hide their stolen/black market goods the farmer and his allies seem to have renovated an entire train and run it across the moor at night to shuffle the goods into the hidden room they have constructed in the abandoned tunnels. This feels a ridiculously complicated solution to hiding their goods. There's no indication that the farm is ever raided by police or that the farmer is suspected of any misdoings. Perhaps he could keep them in a barn?

In the end the farmer's wife cheerfully sees him carted off to jail ("He's always been so weak.") and the son, Jock, is down with it too. Neither of them seem bothered by the idea that their grand piano, posh car, fleet of lorries, and new tractors may be taken away. The whole thing was "simply smashing" says Jock. Hoorah!

Whilst this one does include caves, kidnapping, and the black market, there is no actual treasure this time, no gypsies, and nobody tries to poison Timmy!



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.98 s Paul2,306 20

Five Go Off To Camp is quite an exciting installment of the Famous Five series.

Anne, Dick, George, Julian and Timmy go camping on the moors (they clearly didn't hear the chap telling them to stick to the roads) and are startled to hear an ominous rumbling beneath their feet.

When they meet a local farmer's son, Jock, and he tells them about the local legend of the 'spook trains' that cross the moors at night, the five simply have to investigate...

It's all a bit Scooby Doo... but the Famous Five pre-date ol' Scoob, so it could hardly be called a rip-off. It actually made me wonder if there was some degree of influence in the other direction... Four crime solving kids with a large dog; all they're missing is the van!

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Most pathetic story I've read so far in the Famous Five Series. Girls go and wash/clean/cook. Do not go to the adventure coz it won't be safe. Even when George is far more brave than any of the kids.
All that Anne wants to do is play mother, but why make George suffer coz of that?? If Julian and Dick were so concerned about Anne's safety, one of them could have stayed back instead of forcing their wishes on George. Hate how Enid makes it George's mistake to be angry. The 1st book where I wanted the story to get over asap. Very disappointed.20 s Ophelia.Desdemona204 104

Man, Julian and Dick were real jerks in this book! Was equally pissed of at them now as I was when I was kid.17 s Shirley Revill1,197 263

Loved this book when I was a child and my children and grandchildren love it too.
Enid Blyton started a lifetime love affair with books for me and I still have my Enid Blyton readers club badge. Thank you Enid Blyton for inspiring me to read when I was a child. Recommended.adventure children fiction ...more12 s Alan Cotterell535 183

Never fails to impress me. I don't want to think how long ago I first read these, and they are still fantastic books. Bit dated at times, but that (for me) is part of the attraction. Great palate cleanser. read-20219 s Kelly-Marie206 5

5 stars love this series so much. 20187 s Kitty G Books1,592 2,968

This story is one of many that I used to have on cassette tape and so I was absolutely obsessed with the characters, their adventures and what they got up to. The Famous Five are some of the earliest books I can remember reading alone, and I loved their fun escapades and the way that they always seemed to find adventure and trouble wherever they were.

Despite all the nostalgia I have associated with these books, listening to the audiobook now, as an adult, I see that the gender roles and stereotyping is hard at work here. This was written in the 1940s and I believe that there are quite a few moments that the girls, particularly Anne, were relegated to a fairly domestic position. However, George does defy her sterotypes by being a tomboy and trying to fit in with the boys and go on the adventures too.

This is the story of their time on the moors with the boy's school teacher Mr Luffy. He's an odd one who is mostly interested in bug-collecting and so the children are just left to their own devices and they get to roam freely around the moors.

They soon discover an abandoned railway and hear tell of the 'Spook Trains' which go through the tunnels at night. No one is around and willing to investigate, but of course the five children are happy to have a look around and they soon fall into another adventure...

I still these stories a lot and I think that the nostalgia associated is definitely strong, but I would say they haven't aged as well as some kids books. I do enjoy the full cats production of the audio with music and sound effects, that is pretty fun.

Overall, 3*s for the reread, would be 5*s had I just been rating nostalgia though :)7 s Kirsti2,456 86

Enid Blyton has long been among my favorite authors, and her Five series has long captivated me. What kind of magic is it that these children were allowed to go off camping, walking, visiting towns, rowing and such without an adult present? My mother seemed permanently glued to my side until I was 16, there was no way I could have gotten up to their hijinks.
But it was another time, and people seemed to trust one another, especially with children.

In this book, we see the four children (plus Timmy of course!) go camping with Mr Luffy as their guardian. Of course Luffy does little but show up to mealtimes and drive them when necessary (oh and call the police precisely at the right moment) but he's a fun character none the less. The five are on the scent of spook trains, but Julian, somehow forgetting all George has done in the past, puts her in the 'girl' category and won't let her accompany them at night. Of course George gets her own back and ends up being a great help and rescuing the stupid boys. George was always my favorite character, she's tough and spunky and she knows what she wants and goes out to get it. She can and does prove she's as good as any boy, and my only frustration is bossy Julian always trying to stop her.

Of course, Anne is the other girl in the five and although she always sets my teeth on edge with her stereotypical femininity, She comes through too and helps Mr Luffy bring in the police when times get tough

A cute little story, and one of my favorites out of the five series. Enid Blyton captured something beautiful in her books, and it's a shame kids these days aren't reading her as voraciously as they did in my parents and long before that time. She is my little breath of innocence in my reading world of mainly paranormal and crime, and it's always a great pleasure to pick up one of her books (this copy belonged to my best friend growing up's grandmother, who neatly printed her name inside the cover) and remember that someone long before I was even alive loved this book. Someone held it in their hands and read it before me. Maybe they sat in the sun, or a favorite chair inside. Maybe their mother read it them at night. I know the grandmother herself read it to her daughter, and that daughter to my friend before she declared it childish, and when the books became a dusty lot on her shelf long after her grandmother had passed away, I asked about buying them. 20 beautiful sixties editions of Enid Blyton, all mine now. The memories I bought with them are free.

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Was looking for something short to get used to my new e-book reader. When I was a kid, I read everything by Enid Blyton I could get my hands on, and I was curious how her books would rate today. Sadly these don't hold up at all, compared to some childrens classics , say, Edith Nesbit. The book was written in '48 and it shows: The boys condescend to the girls. One girl cooks and tidies up and gets frightened easily, the other one is a tomboy and doesn't want to be called by her real name. They eat constantly. Probably wouldn't enjoy these as a kid today.2011 kidlit6 s *Tau*269 28

As a kid I absolutely adored the adventures of The Famous Five by Enid Blyton and I've reread the entire collection of 21 books several times.
A few years ago I reread the first few books and was disappointed. Thus I gave 2* to the first installments.

Now I started to read the rest of them.
Have I become even harsher in my ratings?
Probably, because - despite my love for these books as a kid - I can't bring myself to give more than 1*.

A few of my biggest gripes:

What an utterly sexist nonsense
Annie does nothing else than 'playing mother/housekeeper': cooking, doing the dishes, …
Actually Dick and Julian should've switched names, as Julian often really acts a real dick by being condescending towards girls.
This may be a representation of the zeitgeist, as the first book was published in 1942.
But then again, there exist lots of older books that were more 'modern' in thoughts.

So much eating and sleeping
What are those kids: marmots?
They just finished breakfast and they're already thinking about lunch. Oh, and of course they have to get food for the afternoon tea and for dinner.
It's true that I already heard of the importance of food in children's books. As you can read on this blog: "In Blyton’s books, eating food is the central focal point that brings children together. This in turn ingrains the value of having a bond with family and friends."
Taking into account when the first books about The Famous Five were published, I can understand that World War II and the aftermath were of influence. And thus, that food played a big role in people's lives.
But to me, there's a big difference between mentioning the meals or using them as pure page-filling.
Just out of curiosity I scanned one of the books for mentions of food and sleep and it turned out that they appeared on more than 45% of the pages.
Which brings us to the remaining (approximately) 55%:

Plot holes
In between all the eating and sleeping, our protagonists also solve some 'mysteries' that are either unbelievable or totally clear from the beginning.
There are lots of situations that aren't credible to begin with: young children from 10 years old who go on camping trips all alone, they can buy cigarettes, …
And it doesn't get better as there are definitely many plot holes in the described adventures (they hadn't the bag with food within reach, but still managed to eat without going back to get it; etc.).
Some of the errors could be due to a bad Dutch translation, but not all of them.

Line work
Did you know that Enid Blyton (° 1897 - † 1968) wrote hundreds of books and at some periods even 50 books per year?
762 of them are listed on Wikipedia.
But if you want a more detailed list of all her works (> 1.000) you can take a look at https://www.enidblyton.net/ or https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/list-all.php.
Bearing in mind the amount of written books, it's understandable that they often come across as pure line work with a lot of page-filling content.

The conclusion

If I had children, I wouldn't let them read this crap.
It's true that as an adult, you rate books in another way than you would've as a child.
But there are so many really good children's books out there that definitely deserve more attention than this overrated and outdated series.5 s Summer138 177

These books (Famous five) are hands down one of my favorite books from my childhood. All those adventures and mystery …and those sandwiches they always packed! aww, just the best! I would love to read one of these again. To bring back those memories..memories of first experiences of reading books.my-childhood5 s Farseer669 1 follower

Blurb (I'll use the brief summary by Poppy Hutchinson in http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/, since the book blurb seems rather uninformative): When the Famous Five go camping, in the company of Julian and Dick's eccentric school-teacher: Mr Luffy, surely they can't fall into adventure, in the quiet and lonely moorland that surrounds them? But, of course, somehow, they manage too, and find themselves on the trail of Spook Trains that appear, out of nowhere, in the dead of the night! Accompanied by their new friend, from a local farm: Jock, they venture out into the night, to investigate the extraordinary appearance of these peculiar trains, only to expose themselves to some of the most dangerous criminals they have faced, yet...

Random thoughts:

The book starts with the children planning their camping holiday during the summer. The beginning reminds me somewhat of Five Go Off in a Caravan, only a bit worse, because in Caravan that start seemed filled with more wonder and opportunity. In that book the children are lying on the grass, daydreaming about the fun they are going to have, while here they are in a room with a map, making plans in a more matter-of-fact way. Well, I guess it's normal; they are more experienced now, after all. Also, this time they are going to have an adult chaperone, Mr. Luffy, which is sure to cramp their style. At least that's what I thought, before meeting Mr. Luffy.

OK, so as the story got moving I thought this might be Caravan, only not as good, but happily I found out that this book has pleasures of its own. One of them is Mr. Luffy. What a great character! He's one of those absent-minded professors EB s creating, but how un Uncle Quentin he is. Good-natured, kind, with a sense of humor and none of Quentin's fierceness, he is surprisingly good with children. He gives the Five all the freedom they want, but not just because he is so absent-minded and obsessed with hunting for interesting insects, but also because he has an unusual ability to understand when to give them space. Oh, and he also can wiggle one of his ears! In the beginning he is thinking that he'll teach the children all about insects, but luckily for them he never seems to act on that. As a guardian he is not ideal from an adult point of view, though. He is forgetful, after all, and irresponsible in some ways, the way he drove too fast, forgetting all the time that they were towing a trailer.

A couple of unimportant camping nitpicks: In the moors they use streams as a source of drinking water, without bothering to boil it or anything. However, considering that there are sheep and other animals around, that seems strange to me. Also, Blyton makes it sound as if sleeping on the ground in sleeping bags is more comfortable than it really is.

Mr. Luffy lets them camp away from him, so as not to spoil the children's fun. At some point one of the boys joke that they don't need to fear that Mr. Luffy will come running to check whether they have brushed their teeth of are wearing a warm jersey. Maybe he should have checked the teeth-brushing, though, as shown when the children go to sleep and eat chocolate in their sleeping bags.

I had to laugh at Anne's reaction to the "volcano", although I had to admit I was mystified until Mr. Luffy explained about the trains and underground tunnels. Quite cool of Mr. Luffy to keep the secret about Anne's scared reaction but occasionally teasing her gently about it.

One problem reading (or listening) these books as an adult is how obvious the bad guys are. Normally we know as soon as we meet them. Here we are immediately suspicious when we are told how surprisingly wealthy the farm was, and when we meet the nasty Mr. Andrews we know he is up to something. His stepson Jock and Mrs. Andrews are nice, though. I felt kind of sorry for them when we first met them, thinking that their lifestyle was going to be spoiled once the Five uncovered whatever criminal activities Mr. Andrews was involved it, which would get rid of the source of the money he poured on the farm. On the other hand, once I saw more of him, I knew they would be better off without him anyway.

Jock is a standard friend/ally of the children. Nice and eager enough, but not such as memorable a character as Mr. Luffy.

There was a very funny scene when Dick is in his sleeping bag and Mr. Luffy arrives and Dick, thinking it's Timmy, starts telling him to go away and not jump on him and put his paws on him when he is trying to sleep. Reading it nowadays in this less innocent time, it can even have a double meaning that Blyton clearly had not meant. I wonder if it's edited out in the "modern" revised edition.

The setting is really atmospheric. I found myself enjoying the pre-adventure part a lot. The adventure part is also quite good, but there were a few things that spoiled part of my enjoyment:

First, we have Jock and the Five's meanness to Cecil Dearlove. It's just an incident, and yes, I understand that Cecil is unlikable: a tattle-teller, cowardly, just-not-fun-at-all boy. But what did he do exactly to deserve being bullied just for being unlikable? This would have not bothered me much as a boy, I admit, because children often have less empathy in these situations. Let's not exaggerate, nothing really bad was done to Cecil, but they were rather mean to him. Not something to be proud about regarding the Five, who are so likable in many other ways. I have listened to the first seven books in the series now, and this is the second time I have had reservations about something the children do. The first time was in Five Run Away Together, when they were mean to (S)Tinker the Sticks' dog. They were also mean to Edgar Stick, but I don't count that against them, since Edgar clearly started it and was a nasty piece of work. Anyway, the children are not perfect, and that's OK with me, but what seems a bit off-putting is that Blyton seems to think that behavior is fine, or at least that's my perception of how she treats the incident.

OK, so that's one thing. As I said, that would not have bothered me as a boy, and as Enid Blyton herself said, she is not concerned about the opinion of critics over 12 years old. There's a large tradition in children's literature of minor lack of empathy against unpleasant children, after all. However, what would have bothered me as a boy is how the others treat George at some points here. Anne doesn't want to go look for the "spook trains" in the tunnels, so George is kept away from the adventure because someone needs to stay with Anne. WTF? Anne is a bit out of character there because, although she is scared, she does want to be included in the adventures, even if she s them better when they are over. But even accepting she wants to sit this one out, is it really unacceptable to leave her alone for a while at camp, even if it's during the night? Can't another solution be found, possibly involving Mr. Luffy, who is quite understanding of the children's escapades? The boys were kind of nasty about this: they not only try to leave George out of the night expeditions, they also "punish" her for getting in one of her moods about it. After George asked whether they'll let her come next time Julian says "Certainly not. This is my adventure and Dick's—and perhaps Jock's. Not yours or Anne's." Way to be a jerk there, Julian. In his defense, George had been kind of nasty too, calling Anne coward.

Again, what bothers me is not that the children have a row. That happens sometimes in childhood friendships. What bothers me is how the author seems to assume that George is automatically in the wrong here. Dick and Anne side with Julian without question, and George herself assumes it's her fault for being silly and moody and eventually apologizes. But really, she's not being silly. Are they or are they not friends? Do friends act that, knowing very well how much George is going to hate it? I'm trying to be fair here and avoid judging this our current values, when this was written and is set in the 40s. I accept society gave boys and girls different roles then, and that the values of the time held that girls needed to be looked after. Anne s being looked after and I'm perfectly OK with that. But not George. Just treat him a boy already, idiots. Or if you sometimes can't, if your social conditioning pushes you to protect the girls in certain situations, at least don't be jerks about it. The row here goes beyond other let's-protect-George-because-she's-a-girl incidents in the series, and I would to see it addressed instead of instantly forgotten. I know that's not going to happen, though. It's a pity, because I find this stuff regarding the dynamics of the characters' relationships very interesting (that's one of the reasons I loved Go Adventuring Again even though it was adventure-light), and dealing with that a bit more would have made the books better.

Oh, well... at least George got to shine, looking for the trains on her own and later rescuing the boys, who had been taken prisoner. Even Anne showed that when it was necessary she could master her fears and show courage.

One more problem with the story: in Smuggler's Top, the bad guys' plan here made little sense. Why on Earth did they need such a complex operation involving trains and abandoned train tracks and tunnels? This is something that I find easy to forgive because I'm trying to enjoy these as a child, while savoring the details and the atmosphere as an adult, and this would have bothered me little as a boy. I would just have accepted it as the nefarious plot of the bad guys, and just enjoyed the spooky atmosphere and thrilling danger, without needing a clear reason for the bad guys to act that way.

OK, so I guess that's it. I have spent a lot of time talking about the problems with the story, but actually I found it quite enjoyable to read. There was just a slightly bittersweet taste left for me, mainly for the treatment of George. The other flaws I care less about.This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.Show full review4 s Vivone Os610 21

Kona?no imam malo vremena pa da nešto detaljnije napišem.
Odli?na mi je bila pri?a (ve? sam pomalo dosadna s tim kako su mi pri?e o Pet prijatelja uvijek odli?ne hahaha, al što ?u, kad jesu), ali ova je jedna od onih u kojoj nisu u Vili Kirrin, niti na Otoku Kirrin pa ju to ?ini još zanimljivijom. Ovaj put su otišli na logorovanje. Kao i uvijek istražuju neke ?udne doga?aje i upadaju u nevolje.
Ali ono o ?emu sam razmišljala ?itaju?i knjigu je kako ta djeca stalno nešto jedu! Ne propuštaju doru?ke, ru?kove, užine, ve?ere... i uvijek su tu doma?i kruh, šunka, sir, jaja, razli?iti kola?i i hrpe svakakve druge hrane, a ?esto im je sastojak hrane i pi?a ?umbir (zapravo sam prvi put za ?umbir ?ula još davno kad sam prvi put ?itala o njima). I uvijek, baš uvijek ogladnim dok ?itam te knjige. Evo i sad sam gladna. :Ddje?je mine4 s Michael423 53

I don't have any memory of reading this one from my childhood. Pretty poor. There is very little charm to this one, no little moments that prompt a chuckle and a plot that is both thin and nonsensical. Our little band of crimebusters are pretty much obnoxious throughout with everybody including each other. Their eating is off the charts - they wouldn't be obese if they ate this in real life they'd be dead. And their constant blathering on about spook trains (whatever that might be) is very irritating. 2016 for-children mystery4 s Sunshine92 2

When five go off to camp they need very large packed lunches. It's very hard to be more than three feet from a fully stocked larder (minimum 59 giant cakes of all the yummiest flavours). However will they manage on just 94 meals a day???audiobooks4 s Katherine147 36

Three stars plus one for Mr Luffy! What a great character, if he were real I think I would adore him.childrens-chapter-book4 s Gabriel130 117

Amazing just the last one4 s Srijoni Nandy183 20

Spook trains, underground tunnels and camping under supervision of a forgetful adult are the ingredients for a perfect Famous Five mystery.adventure-fiction mystery4 s CriminOllyAuthor 27 books1,117

Not sure if this is one I read back as a kid, a lot of it seemed familiar, but they may due to the fairly standard formula of these books. Either way it was an entertaining read, with spooky trains and some human baddies for the Five to bring to justice. 3 s1 comment mei480 122

Buku pertama dari Enid yang saya baca. Akhirnya ya saya resmi ''berkenalan' dengan beliau XD

Waktu jualan online dulu, ada yang pernah pesan 1 set Roald dahl dan Enid. dia bilang buat investasi di masa depan sebagai bacaan anaknya gitu. trus saya jadi penasaran pengen baca karya dari keduanya dan ternyata saya kurang cocok dengab Roald dahl. Ini baru punya kesempatan kenalan sama Enid dan ternyata lumayan suka hehe.

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Kalau bicara masalah eksekusi mungkin banyak ketidaksetujuan saya di buku ini. Misal, kenapa cewek kok yang nyuci piring dan nyiapin masakan terus dan kenapa cowok-cowoknya kok merasa lebih hebat gitu. Tapi karena ini buku pertama yang saya baca jadi saya gak bisa komentar banyak.

latar ceritanya menarik, tokoh yang terlibat selain lima sekawan-nya sendiri juga cukup memuaskan meskipun agak aneh sih. Kayak, pak Luffy yang digambarkan plin plan, pelupa gitu2 tapi kok bisa bijak(?) bingung deh wq

tapi seru. saya jadi ikut merasakan petualangan dan penasaran berpikir-apa ya yang akan terjadi selanjutnya?

coba seri lain ah~3 s Elizabeth670 47

Back on form with this one. We have adventure, peril, a mysterious train that appears and disappears at night, curious activities at a remote moorland farm and yet more benign parental neglect. But at least there was one vaguely responsible adult (the boys' schoolmaster) keeping an eye on them this time ... although not terribly well.

Great storytelling, thoroughly enjoyable. Looking forward to the next one.adventure animals books-i-have-read-to-my-children ...more2 s Irma *Irma The Book Whisperer*1,582 128

... reading with my 9 year old daughter...

I've read all these books way back when I was a child and I've read them numerous times. I thought it was time to show them to her.

This one was yet one more that she had loved.3 s Nadja1,682 74

Die Fünf Freunde erleben viel in diesem Abenteuer beim Zelten. Julian hat wieder die Hosen an, ein undurchsichtiger Schwiegervater und wieder ist ein temporärer sechster Freund aus der Gegend dabei. [05.08.2018]time-20183 s Bethsheba Meliala247 9

just as amazing as the other famous five booksclassics fiction3 s Natalie818 64

Easy to read, and great as always.

Only real disappointment was the distinct lack of Kirrin Island ;Dadventure childrens classics ...more3 s Liz81

Ugh! I’m so annoyed at Julian and Dick on George’s behalf. They were “absolutely beastly” to her in this one.2017-reads age-children author-europe ...more3 s Dave JohnstonAuthor 4 books17

The step-fathers in Enid Blyton novels are always dodgy geezers 3 s Maria Lago458 117

Se supone que es la colección cumbre de Blyton y no digo que no, pero como topé antes con la de Los Siete, pues como que pasé de esta...2 s Maria335 44

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