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A review by divadiane
Five Go to Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton
4.0
Wow, I can’t believe it took us a month to read this book. If Dante had been in school we wouldn’t have watched TV or movies so late in the evening and run out of time for bedtime reading. So, I switched to a new tactic: reading to him at breakfast and/or lunch.
Anyway, after only having read the first one of the series, I pretty much twigged to her formula: slow start, setting the scene, bring in an element of mystery, then wham! Pick up the pace, add some peril for one or more of the kids and the dog’s the hero!
Still, they are highly entertaining and useful cultural history lesson (of a certain set of people). It’s weird reading them out loud with my American accent (but my son won’t even let me try to affect a British one), especially when they use British slang or manner of speaking. But I’m entertained by the dichotomy, even if my son doesn’t notice.
At any rate, Smuggler’s Top in Castaway sounds like a really fascinating place. Too bad it’s (most likely) completely made up. I mean, a house on the top of a hill, with towers and secret passageways, surrounded by marshes, next to the sea? I’d love to go on a tour.
Anyway, after only having read the first one of the series, I pretty much twigged to her formula: slow start, setting the scene, bring in an element of mystery, then wham! Pick up the pace, add some peril for one or more of the kids and the dog’s the hero!
Still, they are highly entertaining and useful cultural history lesson (of a certain set of people). It’s weird reading them out loud with my American accent (but my son won’t even let me try to affect a British one), especially when they use British slang or manner of speaking. But I’m entertained by the dichotomy, even if my son doesn’t notice.
At any rate, Smuggler’s Top in Castaway sounds like a really fascinating place. Too bad it’s (most likely) completely made up. I mean, a house on the top of a hill, with towers and secret passageways, surrounded by marshes, next to the sea? I’d love to go on a tour.