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A review by grahamsoper
The Castle of Adventure by Enid Blyton
5.0
The Castle Of Adventure - Enid Blyton
This is the second of Enid Blyton’s ‘Adventure’ series, published two years after the first outing for Jack, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and of course, Kiki the Parrot. As in the first book, The Island of Adventure, the Castle of Adventure finds the children almost falling into a mystery from the very beginning and it just gets better and better from then on.
This book introduces Philip and Dinah’s mother, Mrs Mannering, who takes the four children to a remote cottage for their school holidays. And not far from where they’re staying, the children are thrilled to find an old partly-ruined castle.
Why are the local people reluctant to talk about it? And what’s the story behind flashing lights seen coming from one of the towers in the castle.
Jack, of course, is mad about birds and having seen a great auk fly up from within the castle, he decides to camp up inside the castle walls one night to take photos of the birds. But is someone else up there inside the castle?
Policeman Bill Smugs reappears and warns the children not to go into the castle again. But predictably, they pay no heed to his warning and that’s when it all starts to go wrong. However, Kiki comes into her own again, as she does in all the books, bringing a small slice of humour to the tale
You’ll love this book. It’s a brilliant read, with a great storm like no other, mixed in with suits of armour that move in the night, plus hidden rooms and gloomy underground passages. The Castle of Adventure is a story that children of all ages will remember for ever.
This is the second of Enid Blyton’s ‘Adventure’ series, published two years after the first outing for Jack, Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and of course, Kiki the Parrot. As in the first book, The Island of Adventure, the Castle of Adventure finds the children almost falling into a mystery from the very beginning and it just gets better and better from then on.
This book introduces Philip and Dinah’s mother, Mrs Mannering, who takes the four children to a remote cottage for their school holidays. And not far from where they’re staying, the children are thrilled to find an old partly-ruined castle.
Why are the local people reluctant to talk about it? And what’s the story behind flashing lights seen coming from one of the towers in the castle.
Jack, of course, is mad about birds and having seen a great auk fly up from within the castle, he decides to camp up inside the castle walls one night to take photos of the birds. But is someone else up there inside the castle?
Policeman Bill Smugs reappears and warns the children not to go into the castle again. But predictably, they pay no heed to his warning and that’s when it all starts to go wrong. However, Kiki comes into her own again, as she does in all the books, bringing a small slice of humour to the tale
You’ll love this book. It’s a brilliant read, with a great storm like no other, mixed in with suits of armour that move in the night, plus hidden rooms and gloomy underground passages. The Castle of Adventure is a story that children of all ages will remember for ever.