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| Original Title: | Five Get Into Trouble |
| ISBN: | 0340796227 (ISBN13: 9780340796221) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Famous Five #8, Fünf Freunde Hörspiele #11 |
| Characters: | George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five) |
Enid Blyton
Paperback | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 3.97 | 9085 Users | 168 Reviews
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| Title | : | Five Get Into Trouble (The Famous Five #8) |
| Author | : | Enid Blyton |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Hodder Children's Books (first published 1946) |
| Categories | : | Childrens. Adventure. Fiction. Mystery. Classics. Young Adult. Novels |
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In this tale the Five are banished to the wilds because forgetful Uncle Quentin has to go to a conference over the holidays and for some reason Aunt Fanny has to go with him. And to top it all the cook is ill! Note: in Quentin's excuse he cites that when the children are not at Kirrin they are with Fanny's sister, implying that Julian, Dick, and Anne's mother is Fanny's sister, which would make some sense. However book 1 makes it very clear that their father is Quentin's brother. And whilst it is possible that Quentin's brother married Fanny's sister, nobody ever mentions this and it is overwhelmingly likely that it is another example of Enid Blyton forgetting the details of her most famous story. Now, clearly the Five are too young to survive in George's house without a cook, so the obvious solution is to send them on a cycling tour with Timmy running free alongside, where not only will they have to dodge cars etc, and find fields to camp in, and swim in random unknown lakes, and deal with tramps ... but still have to cook for themselves! Swallowing this non-logic we follow the kids into wilds. The books generally demand a 5th child and in this one they randomly encounter a boy, Richard, who delivers a neatly packaged adventure. Richard is the son of a millionaire who has many enemies. Richard is randomly spotted by his father's former bodyguard who decides to kidnap him. The men with the bodyguard, Rooky, manage to capture Dick by mistake and the bodyguard conveniently vanishes before this error can be spotted. The others manage to track Dick to an isolated house with a wall around it and automatic gates that are worked by some mysterious non-electric (as far as I can tell) mechanism in the house. The story relies on the conceit that it is impossible to escape the grounds when the gates are shut. This is rather hard to buy into, but let's roll with it. The kids try to rescue Dick and are captured in turn, but the still absent Rookie isn't there to identify Richard as the boy he really wants. Anyway, there is some to and fro-ing, They almost escape but the gates are closed and that's an end to it. Timmy serves as a buffer between the criminals and the children. An attempt (one of about a dozen in the series) is made to poison him. The children discover that a man is hiding in a secret room in the house. This provides the "treasure" element so common in the series. The baddies kidnapping children is not sufficient. Treasure must be recovered, and in this case it's a bag of 'sparklers' in the possession of the escaped convict. Our spare child gets to atone for earlier foolishness and to demonstrate some stiff-upper-lipped character growth by escaping to alert the police. Note: The boy's escape depends on the conceit that neither Julian or Dick can fit into the boot of a Bentley, but Richard can... A Bentley is a LARGE vehicle. The idea that a boy can't fit into the boot is hard to swallow. And finally Julian is able to do a Poirot-style walk through, incriminating the baddies and exposing the hidden man with the diamonds. A big bag on nonsense but good enough fun for children. I'm listening to the whole series with my disabled daughter and it seems to be entertaining her pretty well. So this one has kidnapping, 5th child, secret room/passage & attempted poisoning of Timmy. But lacks any circus folk/ gypsies and there's not a single cave in the whole story!!! Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizes ….Rating Based On Books Five Get Into Trouble (The Famous Five #8)
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This is the most well-plotted! The story does not narrate only about the relationship about this gangs mostly toward story, but also tries to take the readers into the adventurous traveling themselves. The story slightly reviews a mystery piece by piece, and has more than one mysteries in one story, unlike the other books.These kids are one courageous bunch. Rooky was a great baddie - hope he doesn't give my little boy nightmares. 9/21
Brief Summary by Poppy Hutchinson (from http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk, quoted since the actual book blurb is not very informative): On their peaceful camping and cycling tour of the English countryside, the Five come across Richard Kent the son of one of the richest men in the country! When Dick is mistaken for him and kidnapped, by Rooky, a dangerous criminal who had been a bodyguard in the Kent household, the children know they have two leads: Owls Dene on Owls Hill, and a Black Bently
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 with reading books.
I didn't remember this book from childhood at all but I think this is the darkest one in the series so far. The children set out on a cycling holiday and meet another young boy called Richard Kent. Richard has wealthy parents and has had a very spoilt lifestyle and is rather selfish and thoughtless. So He thinks nothing of telling untruths to be able to accompany the children. This all goes horribly wrong when a group of criminals with a grudge against his father plan to kidnap him but take Dick
In this tale the Five are banished to the wilds because forgetful Uncle Quentin has to go to a conference over the holidays and for some reason Aunt Fanny has to go with him. And to top it all the cook is ill!Note: in Quentin's excuse he cites that when the children are not at Kirrin they are with Fanny's sister, implying that Julian, Dick, and Anne's mother is Fanny's sister, which would make some sense. However book 1 makes it very clear that their father is Quentin's brother. And whilst it is
3-1/2 stars. The Famous Five are on quite an adventure this time, one that seems more wrought with potential for harm than the previous books in the series! I liked this quote: I suppose even the worst coward, the most despicable crook, the most dishonest rogue can find some good thing in himself if he wants to badly enough. Yes, its the wanting-to that must be so rare, though.Because I am giving this book to my young granddaughter, I marked through a very few words, words we do not use, and
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