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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) |
Enid Blyton
Paperback | Pages: 266 pages Rating: 4.06 | 14505 Users | 293 Reviews
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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.
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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 |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 14505 Users | 293 ReviewsJudge 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 andchildhood 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?
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