St Clare's Collection - 9 Books

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a b c d e Bensoussane, Anita, "A Biography of Enid Blyton– The Story of Her Life", Enid Blyton Society , retrieved 25 January 2014

It was only recently I even found out that someone else had written other stories to "fill in the gaps" Books: Hurrah! the Sun Never Sets on Enid Blyton". The Independent on Sunday. 18 July 2004. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014.Kemp, Stuart (7 March 2012), "U.S. Group Classic Media Grabs Rights to Iconic British Creation Noddy From Chorion", The Hollywood Reporter , retrieved 19 January 2014 This isn’t a review - this is a classic Enid Blyton series, and I grew up with it and will always feel nostalgic toward it. But it is a bunch of unrelated thoughts on -

Enid Blyton is sometimes accused of creating unrealistic plots. Well, if we want to find realistic aspects of her stories to defend her, this to me is clearly one of them. In fact, for Angela to resolve to improve and then not to seems so ordinary to me that I would never have even thought of raising a question about it. In 1950 Blyton established the company Darrell Waters Ltd to manage her affairs. By the early 1950s she had reached the peak of her output, often publishing more than fifty books a year, and she remained extremely prolific throughout much of the decade. [52] By 1955 Blyton had written her fourteenth Famous Five novel, Five Have Plenty of Fun, her fifteenth Mary Mouse book, Mary Mouse in Nursery Rhyme Land, her eighth book in the Adventure series, The River of Adventure, and her seventh Secret Seven novel, Secret Seven Win Through. She completed the sixth and final book of the Malory Towers series, Last Term at Malory Towers, in 1951. [45] Rewrites a blight on Blyton's legacy... by golly". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 July 2012 . Retrieved 22 January 2014. An additional two books were written in 2000 by Pamela Cox to fill the gaps left by Enid Blyton, namely the Third and Sixth Forms (not shown in the summaries below).

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Fisher, Margery (1986), The Bright Face of Danger: An Exploration of the Adventure Story, Hodder Children's Books, ISBN 978-0-34022-993-4 I cannot add anything more of any depth to the various posts already made - but a couple of simple answers to your question occur to me. Greenfield, George (1995), A Smattering of Monsters: A Kind of Memoir, Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-071-6

Of course, I am still planning on posting a detailed review of Enid Blyton’s original, of her The Twins at St. Clare’s in the near future. However, as someone who was both aghast and also totally disappointed (and yes also felt more than a bit lied to) when I realised that one of my favourite boarding school series from when I was a tween and young teenager was in fact NOT REALLY a translation of Enid Blyton’s original texts into German but at best only a very very loose adaptation, I do feel that I need to point out that if you are indeed planning on reading the St. Clare’s series in German, that no indeed, how the anonymous translator or translators have rendered both The Twins at St. Clare’s and indeed the entire series into German is in my opinion both an affront to what it means to translate and also to Enid Blyton as an author (and yes, I strongly feel this even though the German language versions of the St. Clare’s series have in fact been published in agreement with Enid Blyton’s estate). Enid Blyton's writing style is another highlight of the series. Her prose is clear and simple, with just the right amount of description and dialogue to keep readers engaged. Her stories are both heartwarming and exciting, with plenty of twists and turns to keep readers guessing. The plot of the St. Clare's (and also Malory Towers) books depend a lot on a few girls having their own problems or character flaws, and how that causes trouble but eventually they learn some kind of lesson and grow. This makes for satisfactory character arcs within each book, but the problem is that next year you have another book, and if all the characters have already learned and grown, what's the new book about?

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Lawrence, Ben (7 November 2012). "Five Go to Rehab, Gold, preview". The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 March 2014. Another one, a little less serious, occurs during the climactic chapters of "Five Have a Mystery to Solve" - which is probably from the period affected by dementia anyway - but this particular plot hole could be fixed by adding one or two paragraphs at a particular point in one chapter. The Comic Strip's Five Go Mad in Dorset contains the first occurrence of a phrase wrongly attributed to Blyton, "lashings of ginger beer". [130]