11 Enid Blyton, children’s author was born today in 1897. Have you ever read any of her books?

[trepkos]

I have read lots of her books during my childhood - Secret Seven and Famous Five, The [insert noun here] of Adventure, and all the Malory Towers and St Clare's books

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

I'd forgotten about the Secret Seven, Famous Five and St Clare's books! Mind you, I'd be hard pushed to think of any of the plots...

[trepkos]

Lots of creeping about after suspicious looking adults and uncovering plots, and the school books had midnight feasts, crushes, exam cheats etc. Did you see the Comic Strip spoofs - "Five Go Mad in Dorset" etc? That pretty much summed it up.

[tellshannon815]

I can vaguely remember reading an old Secret Seven book that must have belonged to one of my uncles, but I couldn't name the characters now - the Famous Five are the ones I remember better.

While I didn't pick up on it when I read the books in primary school, looking back now I do think there were girl crushes (the character that comes to mind is Alison O'Sullivan).

[trepkos]

Not sure if it was in Enid Blyton but I remember them being referred to as a "pash"!

[sallymn]

There are a lot of schoolgirl crushes in many school stories by various authors, which maybe makes us wonder...