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The Secret Seven Short Story Collection - Enid Blyton New softcover book
THE SECRET SEVEN
Short Story Collection - 6 exciting adventures!
by ENID BLYTON
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New small softcover book, 150 pages, published 2007. Includes foreword by Enid Blyton's elder daughter Gillian
Peter, Janet and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George are The Secret Seven - solvers of mysteries, followers of adventure.
A secrect store of stolen silver, a surprising view through a telescope, a shrill scream on a night out, a disappearing cash bok, a dangerous accident and a trap for the Secret Seven!
- The Secret of the Old Mill
- The Humbug Adventure
- Adventure on the Way Home
- An Afternoon with the Secret Seven
- Where are the Secret Seven?
- Hurry, Secret Seven, Hurry!
The Secret Seven consists of Peter, the leader, his sister Janet, Jack, Barbara, George, Pam, Colin, and Scamper the dog. Jack's sister Susie and her best friend Binkie often make an appearance in the books; they hate the Secret Seven and delight in playing tricks designed to humiliate them, although much of this is fuelled by their almost obsessive desire to belong to the society.
The Secret Seven are a secret society who hold regular meetings and organize things to do, whether it's helping the community in some way, solving mysteries that turn up, or just having fun playing Red Indians in the woods. The Seven have a secret password, a badge, and a secret headquarters in a garden shed. Peter enforces the rules and delegates tasks for the members. The Seven investigate mysteries by shadowing, interviewing and, most importantly, looking for clues. The Seven tackle all sorts of mysteries from missing dogs to mail robbery, and always come out on top.
Unlike most other Blyton series, the adventures place during the school term time because the characters go to day schools. These short stories were originally published in 1948.
About the author
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. Once described as a "one-woman fiction machine", she is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 400 million copies. By one measure, Blyton is the sixth most popular author worldwide: over 3400 translations of her books were available in 2007 according to UNESCO's Index Translationum; she is behind Lenin and almost equal to Shakespeare.
One of her most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for beginning readers. However, her main forte is the young readers' novels, where children ride out their own adventures with minimal adult help. In this genre, particularly popular series include the Famous Five (consisting of 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, (15 novels, 1943-1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police) as well as the Secret Seven (15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries). Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic. Her books were and still are enormously popular in Britain, Malta, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Australia; and as translations in the former Yugoslavia, Japan, and across most of the globe. Her work has been translated into nearly 90 languages.
Blyton only intended to write about 6 to 8 books in the Famous Five series but, owing to their high sales and immense commercial success, she went on to write 21 full-length books featuring the characters. By the end of 1953, more than 6 million copies of these books had been printed and sold. Today, more than two million copies of the books are sold each year, making them one of the biggest-selling series for children ever written. Nearly all of the novels have subsequently been adapted for television.
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The Secret Seven Short Story Collection: 6 exciting stories by Enid Blyton
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