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Barney, Roger Diane and Snubby love solving mysteries, with the help of Loony the spaniel and Miranda the monkey. Miss Pepper hopes that taking the children to stay by the sea at the village inn in Rubadub will give them all a quiet holiday - for a change! But all sorts of strange things are going on at the inn, and there are mysterious explosions at the submarine base nearby. Who is behind the happenings at the inn? The police are on the trail, but the children are determined to find the answer first! AUTHOR: Enid Mary Blyton (11August 1897-28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies. Blyton is the fifth most translated author worldwide: over 3544 translations of her books were available in 2007 according to UNESCO's Index Translationum she overtook Lenin to get the fifth place and is behind Shakespeare. One of Blyton's most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for early years readers. However, her main forte is the young readers' novels, where children ride out their own adventures with minimal adult help. In this genre, particularly popular series include the Famous Five (consisting of 21 novels, 1942-1963, based on four children and their dog), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, (15 novels, 1943-1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police) as well as the Secret Seven (15 novels, 1949-1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries). Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic. Her books were and still are enormously popular in Britain, Malta, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia; as translations in the former Yugoslavia, Japan; as adaptations in Arabic; and across most of the globe. Her work has been translated into nearly 90 languages. *… (meer)
Another visit to my childhood. A little darker than I expected and with slightly odd pacing (most of the action happens in the last quarter of the book). Brother and sister Roger and Diana, their orphaned cousin Snubby are off to the seaside with old governess Miss Pepper as Roger and Diana's parents are off to America. They are soon joined by their itinerant circus worker friend Barney and his monkey Miranda (who in a reversal of the Ring-O-Bells mystery is the one who's been ill). The book is evocative of 1940s British seaside holidays with bathing, boat trips, a pier with a Pierrot show and loving descriptions of the four meals a day... I realised that Blyton was writing post-war and rationing was still in force, which may explain her penchant for giving her characters lavish meals. There's a dark undercurrent, not in the standard plucky kids and spies story, but the story of Barney, who's mother left his father before he was born, and who died when he was young, leaving him to fend for himself in the world of circuses and fairgrounds. Barney's desire to find the father he never knew has run through these stories and is cruelly (and unnecessarily) exploited by villains in this book, though ultimately there is a happy ending thanks to the kindness of Snubby. Some uncomfortable references to corporal punishment and treatment of the mentally impaired (though the character Dummy is on the whole sympathetically treated by the main characters). ( )
Barney, Roger Diane and Snubby love solving mysteries, with the help of Loony the spaniel and Miranda the monkey. Miss Pepper hopes that taking the children to stay by the sea at the village inn in Rubadub will give them all a quiet holiday - for a change! But all sorts of strange things are going on at the inn, and there are mysterious explosions at the submarine base nearby. Who is behind the happenings at the inn? The police are on the trail, but the children are determined to find the answer first! AUTHOR: Enid Mary Blyton (11August 1897-28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. She is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 600 million copies. Blyton is the fifth most translated author worldwide: over 3544 translations of her books were available in 2007 according to UNESCO's Index Translationum she overtook Lenin to get the fifth place and is behind Shakespeare. One of Blyton's most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for early years readers. However, her main forte is the young readers' novels, where children ride out their own adventures with minimal adult help. In this genre, particularly popular series include the Famous Five (consisting of 21 novels, 1942-1963, based on four children and their dog), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, (15 novels, 1943-1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police) as well as the Secret Seven (15 novels, 1949-1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries). Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic. Her books were and still are enormously popular in Britain, Malta, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia; as translations in the former Yugoslavia, Japan; as adaptations in Arabic; and across most of the globe. Her work has been translated into nearly 90 languages. *
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