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Peggy, Mike, Nora and Jack have been invited to the kingdom of Baronia for the holidays. In their friend Prince Paul's home, hidden away in the heart of the mountains, they stumble into their greatest adventure yet, robbers in the Secret Forest.Tags
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While I love Enid Blyton adventure books, the ones set in faraway, exotic countries tend to be a bit too farfetched for me to suspend my disbelief. This one, while farfetched, is not one of the most farfetched, so I was fine with it.
The children visit Baronia, invited by prince Paul's parents. Due to a heatwave they are sent to a summer residence in the mountains and they get in a adventure involving a band of robbers and a secret, inaccessible forest.
So far, the best books in this series are the first ones, particularly the first (The Secret Island), which is a classic, but young readers will enjoy the continuing adventures of this group of children.
The children visit Baronia, invited by prince Paul's parents. Due to a heatwave they are sent to a summer residence in the mountains and they get in a adventure involving a band of robbers and a secret, inaccessible forest.
So far, the best books in this series are the first ones, particularly the first (The Secret Island), which is a classic, but young readers will enjoy the continuing adventures of this group of children.
Opening Sentence: ‘…Three excited boys stood on a station platform, waiting for a train to come in.…’
Jack, Mike, Peggy and Nora have been invited by their friend, PrincePaul, to accompany him to his country – the make-believe kingdom of Baronia, a remote and beautiful mountainous country. They are to stay in the Royal palace for the summer holidays. The King’s main guards, Ranni and Pilescu, are given the task of keeping the five children amused and safe. This is quite easy what with swimming pools, extensive gardens and plane trips. Then the temperatures soar, and the palace is stifling hot. The solution? Up in Killimooin mountains is another castle, built by the King the year before, but empty apart from the caretakers. It show more will be cooler up in the mountains, so it’s decided to travel there for the rest of the holidays.
The Castle is right next to ‘The Secret Forest’ which is contained with a valley inside an impassable range of mountains, so steep that no man, or goat, has ever got inside. There are no passes between the mountains, no way through at all, and no human has ever set foot inside it. Or have they?
Look I am a huge fan of Enid Blyton’s adventure and mystery books – I can read them over and over again and never be bored. This is as good as I remember and was a wonderful few hours of immersing myself in an innocent and fun adventure. show less
Jack, Mike, Peggy and Nora have been invited by their friend, PrincePaul, to accompany him to his country – the make-believe kingdom of Baronia, a remote and beautiful mountainous country. They are to stay in the Royal palace for the summer holidays. The King’s main guards, Ranni and Pilescu, are given the task of keeping the five children amused and safe. This is quite easy what with swimming pools, extensive gardens and plane trips. Then the temperatures soar, and the palace is stifling hot. The solution? Up in Killimooin mountains is another castle, built by the King the year before, but empty apart from the caretakers. It show more will be cooler up in the mountains, so it’s decided to travel there for the rest of the holidays.
The Castle is right next to ‘The Secret Forest’ which is contained with a valley inside an impassable range of mountains, so steep that no man, or goat, has ever got inside. There are no passes between the mountains, no way through at all, and no human has ever set foot inside it. Or have they?
Look I am a huge fan of Enid Blyton’s adventure and mystery books – I can read them over and over again and never be bored. This is as good as I remember and was a wonderful few hours of immersing myself in an innocent and fun adventure. show less
The first Enid Blyton book I read, borrowed from a friend, and still one of her best. Set in a fictional East European country, a kind or rural Ruritania that is something like a mixture of Poland and Romania, it has mystery, action, and the obligatory undergound journeys.
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Enid Blyton, 1897 - November 28, 1968 Enid Blyton was born in London in 1897. She was educated in a private school and thought that she would become a musician until she realized that writing was her passion. She attended Ipswich High School where she trained to become a kindergarten teacher and eventually opened her own school for infants. show more Blyton's first poem was published in 1917, entitled "Have You-" which appeared in Nash's Magazine. In 1922, her first book of verses was published, entitled "Child Whispers." In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine "Sunny Stories" as well as writing the column "Teachers World." Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled "The Secret Island." After working on the column for years, Blyton quit "Teachers World" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of "Sunny Stories" seven years later. In 1953 she started her own children's magazine called "The Edith Blyton Magazine" which featured stories about her characters and news on the clubs formed around them. Her most famous stories were those of the "Famous Five" The Magazine closed in 1959. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today. Blyton has published over 600 books in the course of her career. Enid Blyton died in her sleep on November 28, 1968. She was 71 years old. show less
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- The Secret of Killimooin
- Alternate titles
- The Secret Forest
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- 1943
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- Three excited boys stood on a station platform, waiting for a train to come in.
- Disambiguation notice
- The Secret of Killimooin retitled as The Secret Forest.
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