Free Download Books Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)

Be Specific About Books Supposing Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)

Original Title: Five Go to Smuggler's Top
ISBN: 0340796189 (ISBN13: 9780340796184)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Famous Five #4, FĂ¼nf Freunde Hörspiele #19
Characters: George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)
Free Download Books Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)
Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4) Paperback | Pages: 266 pages
Rating: 4.06 | 14505 Users | 293 Reviews

Representaion During Books Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)

In this one the children are evicted from Kirrin Cottage (3 of them just visiting anyway) by a falling tree and Uncle Quentin packs them off to stay with a fellow scientist who (because in Blyton's imagination all scientists are rich (with the sole exception of Quentin himself in book 1 ... until all the gold) lives in a huge house riddled with secret tunnels that lead into a wide cave system.)

Caves and tunnels are a staple of this series. Few, if any, of the 23 books don't go underground or through the walls at some point.

Now Uncle Quentin, who in book one was writing formulas in his secret books and brewing stuff in test tubes, seems to have morphed into a civil engineer and is collaborating with their new host, Mr Lenoir, to drain the swamp, in a literal rather than Trumpian, sense.

The original conflict is over the taking of Timmy. Mr Lenoir hates dogs. This is generally an unfailing indicator of villainy!

The wider conflict concerns the local smuggler who uses the marshes, and rather unbelievably ends up kidnapping Uncle Quentin in some implausible plan to thwart the draining by buying then burning his plans, thus stopping ... the swamp ... from being drained? Also, the smuggler is very rich and only smuggles for fun.

The central lesson of this book is that if you see a light out in the dark, then someone is up to no good. Generally smuggling.

The conflict that I recall strongly from my reading as a child was between the Five and the deaf manservant Block who they suspect might be able to hear, and who is out to expose Timmy who has been hiding in the house's secret passages in order that Mr Lenoir not know he was in the house.

Not one of my favourites in the series. A bit insipid.

As a footnote: Enid seems to have a fascination with deafness. Block pretends / or doesn't to be deaf in this book. A girl in Malory Towers fakes deafness to general hilarity. The mainstay of the humour in the Faraway Trilogy is the Saucepan Man's hardness of hearing and failure to understand.

Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizes


..

Specify Containing Books Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)

Title:Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)
Author:Enid Blyton
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 266 pages
Published:2001 by Hodder Children's Books (first published 1945)
Categories:Childrens. Adventure. Mystery. Fiction

Rating Containing Books Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)
Ratings: 4.06 From 14505 Users | 293 Reviews

Judge Containing Books Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)
"Five go to smuggler's top" was actually one of the last Five books I read, even though it is number 4 in the series. It was hard to find a copy originally, and I had to make do with a more modern publication than some of the others I own.What starts off as a lovely easter holidays at Kirrin soon turns into adventure, with a large tree hitting the house making it impossible for the children to stay there. They are packed off to stay with a friend of Uncle Quentin's, and his son, a boy Julian and

childhood rating * * * *actual rating * *I will allow my childhood rating to stand,but it is a far cry from how I feel about these books now. IMO, Famous Five books have no place in this day and age. Although today's generations of couch potato kids could benefit from reading about the outdoor activities of our famous friends (in a sense it may motivate them to get of the damn couch and live a little), negative issues outweigh the positive message. What stuck with me through this re-read:

Getting too awful, couldn't finish.



Another trip into my childhood :) and I enjoyed every minute of it. The five are staying in an old house where the discover secret passages and underground tunnels (a must for children 8 years plus). Are there really smugglers at Smugglers Top? Who's behind the signalling, the kidnapping and all the weird goings on?In a town which is cut off from the rest of the world, the Famous five must go on a spooky adventure to solve the mystery of smugglers top. This book can be used I the classroom for

Smuggler's Top was the first book that i had read of Famous Five series which led me to search and scourge and acquire the entire collection!I had loved the book a lot. I still remember the characters quite perfectly. A gripping Plot, super suspense and witty Kids made sure i spent the best summer vacation getting engrossed in them throughout the day!This possibly was the very first of the Novel's that i had read and fuelled in bringing more to my library!

This was a dramatized audiobook, short and enjoyable, even for an adult - or at least an immature one, as in my case. As a kid, I would've loved it. Lots of unsupervised adventure - what kid doesn't like that?
Share:

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Labels

14th Century 19th Century 20th Century Abuse Academic Action Adoption Adult Adult Fiction Adventure Africa African American African Literature Albanian Literature Aliens Alternate History Amazon American American Civil War American History American Revolution Ancient Angels Animals Anthologies Apocalyptic Art Art Design Arthurian Asia Asian Literature Astronomy Atheism Audiobook Australia Autobiography Bande Dessinée Baseball BDSM Beauty and The Beast Biography Biography Memoir Biology Book Club Books Books About Books Brazil British Literature Buddhism Buffy The Vampire Slayer Buisness Business Canada Canadian Literature Catholic Chick Lit Childrens China Christian Christian Fantasy Christian Fiction Christian Living Christian Romance Christianity Christmas Civil War Classics Clean Romance College Combat Comedy Comics Coming Of Age Communication Contemporary Contemporary Romance Crime Cultural Culture Cyberpunk Danish Dark Dark Fantasy Death Demons Detective Diary Dinosaurs Dogs Download Books Dragonlance Dragons Drama Dungeons and Dragons Dystopia Economics Education Egypt Emergency Services English Literature Entrepreneurship Environment Epic Epic Fantasy Erotic Romance Erotica Espionage Essays European Literature Evolution Fae Fairies Fairy Tales Faith Family Family Law Fan Fiction Fantasy Fantasy Romance Feminism Fiction Fighters Film Finnish Literature Firefighters Forgotten Realms Fostering France Free Books French Literature Futuristic Gay Gender German Literature Germany Ghosts GLBT Gothic Graphic Novels Graphic Novels Comics Greece Hard Boiled Health Heroic Fantasy High Fantasy High School Hinduism Hip Hop Historical Historical Fantasy Historical Fiction Historical Mystery Historical Romance History Holiday Holocaust Horror Horses Hugo Awards Humanities Humor Hungarian Literature Hungary India Indian Literature Indonesian Literature Inspirational Interracial Romance Iran Ireland Irish Literature Islam Italian Literature Italy Japan Japanese Literature Jewish Journalism Language Latin American Leadership Lebanon Legal Thriller Lesbian LGBT Liberia Linguistics Literary Fiction Literature Logic Love Love Story Lovecraftian M M Romance Magic Magical Realism Management Manga Marriage Martial Arts Marvel Mathematics Media Tie In Medical Medicine Medieval Memoir Mental Health Mental Illness Mermaids Middle Grade Military Military Fiction Military History Modern Murder Mystery Music Mystery Mystery Thriller Mysticism Mythology Native Americans Nature Neuroscience New Adult New York Nigeria Nobel Prize Noir Nonfiction North American Hi... Northern Africa Novella Novels Occult Pakistan Paranormal Paranormal Romance Parenting Personal Development Philosophy Physics Picture Books Pirates Plays Poetry Poland Political Science Politics Popular Science Portugal Portuguese Literature Post Apocalyptic Poverty Psychiatry Psychological Thriller Psychology Queer Race Read For School Realistic Fiction Reference Regency Relationships Religion Retellings Romance Romanian Literature Romantic Romantic Suspense Russia Russian Literature Scandinavian Literature School Science Science Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Scotland Seinen Self Help Sequential Art Serbian Literature Sexuality Shapeshifters Short Stories Short Story Collection Sierra Leone Social Social Issues Social Science Social Work Sociology Southern Space Space Opera Spain Spanish Literature Speculative Fiction Spirituality Sports Sports Romance Spy Thriller Star Wars Steampunk Storytime Superheroes Supernatural Survival Suspense Swedish Literature Technology Teen The United States Of America Theatre Theology Thriller Time Travel Transgender Travel Travelogue True Crime Turkish Turkish Literature Ukraine Ukrainian Literature Unfinished Unicorns Urban Urban Fantasy Utopia Vampires Victorian War Warfare Weird Fiction Werewolves Western Africa Westerns Witches Womens Womens Fiction World History World War II Writing Young Adult Young Adult Contemporary Young Adult Fantasy Zombies

Blog Archive