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Five on a Treasure Island (Famous Five) | 
 enlarge | Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Category: Book
List Price: $9.91
Buy Used: $3.88
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 47939
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0340796146
EAN: 9780340796146
ASIN: 0340796146
Publication Date: June 14, 2001
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 Not Free SF Reader September 3, 2007
Blue Tyson
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Must catch these rotters and finish the adventure in time for tea, chaps.
Five on a Treasure Island is the first in a long running series of adventure stories about a group of kids and the odd pet. They stick their noses in, get into trouble, and generally have a good time in a considerably younger Scooby Doo sort of way, even if it is nowhere near as much fun as that.
Simply the best books a young person could have! April 27, 2007
Prospective author! (Washington DC)
One wet Saturday afternoon, bored, no TV, I was searching through my mothers old books & came across a plain red hardback copy of this book. I started reading it & was hooked. It has so many great qualities to it. Each of the five have distinctly different personalities so you can identify with someone (in my case George!). Wonderfully written & very engaging. Not only do you explore in the traditional adventure sense but you also explore relationships between friends, interactions with adults, choices, principles & conflicts. In hindsight, as an adult, much more than just a story. Needless to say it became a monthly highlight to go to our local bookstore & purchase the next in the series after exhausting my mothers supply!
Excellent Child Adventure Series September 27, 2006
K. Reed (New Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Enid Blyton's books are a fantastic way to reach young readers. I read every book I could find by Enid Blyton when I was a child, thankfully, having lived in England to find the copies. As an adult, I have scoured the websites looking for these books as mine are so worn out my kids can't read them. I am very pleased to see now that they are being sold on Amazon. The books are very entertaining as the children face adventure after adventure and solve mysteries. It is a timeless series very equal to Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and the Bobbsey Twins. Although this series featuring Phillip, Dinah, Jack, Lucy and Kiki is my favorite, I strongly recommend reading her MANY other books that are equally entertaining (i.e. The Famous Five series, the Malory Towers series, and for beginning readers, The Secret Seven series).
The adventure that started it all September 8, 2006
Darren Harrison (Washington D.C.)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
The Famous Five novels by Enid Blyton are a British institution in the United Kingdom and occupy a place in the bookshelves of nearly every self-respecting pre-teen. When I was growing up in the UK I devoured all the Blyton books I could get a hold of and then went onto her Secret Seven and (my all-time favorite) Adventure series.
The format for the books is essentially the same - a band of children get into a series of adventures thwarting criminals and solving mysteries. It's like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, but imbued with that classic British idiom and that fast-paced, expertly crafted Blyton style that give it an edge over her American counterparts.
The success of the formula is perhaps best demonstrated by the fact that the majority of the Blyton books I read were handed down to me from my mother who had received them as a child herself in the 1940s and 1950s. It's an unusual feeling opening a book and seeing it inscribed to a parent when they were your age. There are 21 stories in the series and 40 years later in the 1980s the series was even continued by French author Claude Voilier (who wrote several continuation novels).
Anyhow, this is the novel that started it all and in it we are introduced to the Famous Five - Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and her dog Tim.
As the novel opens Julian, Dick and Anne arrive at their uncle's for the summer where they are introduced to their cousin - the tomboyish Georgina (or George for short).
Together they set out to investigate the nearby island that belongs to George's mother and run straight into danger and adventure. There is a wreck submerged on the island that suppossibly has a fortune in gold inside, but several dives to the ship have yielded nothing. Then one night a fierce storm whips up and the wreck is brought to the surface.
It's compulsive reading and even as an adult I sometimes have that nostalgic desire to return to a more innocent time and read a Blyton novel.
These books are rather difficult to find in the United States though I was able to track down one online retailer that sells them as a complete set. However, if you want to sample the Famous Five series before putting down your hard earned cash for the entire series, this novel, (or my personal favorite of the series "Five Get into a Fix"), is well worth the expense.
Your children will thank you for it
Incidentally there is a DVD production available in Region 2 of this adventure. In the 1970s a British television series was also produced of the Famous Five adventures, and a second one in the 1990s and a 1981 movie adaptation of the first of the Adventure series (Island of Adventure).
Must Read August 25, 2006
Book Worm (Minnesota United States)
The first book in the "Famous Five" series by Enid Blyton. I loved this and every single other book in this series. I find all of Blyton's books extremely enjoyable and I owe my love of reading to her. She creates events and places you want to be part of. If you like to read and are between 7 and 12, you will want to try one of her books. You can then look forward to hundreds of other books by her.
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