Famous Five: 4: Five Go To Smuggler's Top: 70th Anniversary Edition: Book 4 (Famous Five 70th Anniversary)

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Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA19212 Openlibrary_edition 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. Het zal wel niemand echt verwonderen dat dit boek ook echt over - jawel - smokkelaars gaat en dat ook het hele mysterie daarom draait. Maar op het einde word je als lezer toch nog verrast en blijkt het net iets meer te zijn dan dat - en blijkt oom Quentin er voor iets tussen te zitten. Daarnaast gaat dit boek wel iets sneller van start dan anders - en het verhaal zelf begint trouwens ook met een ferme knal, een die je misschien niet meteen ziet aankomen. Million-Word Reading Project, MWRP)是專門為將英語作為外語的學習者(EFL learners)設計的英語閱讀提高計劃,讀者對象為已掌握1500基本英語詞彙的讀者(相當於初級英語水準),通過2年、每天約15分鐘的閱讀能達到中級英語水準,掌握3500多單詞和大量的短語,熟練掌握英語的各種句子結構,並能閱讀一般英語原著。

De Vijf op (de) Smokkelaarsrots (zelf behoor ik tot de lidwoordhebbende generatie trouwens) is het vierde boek van De Vijf en het eerste dat zich (bijna) volledig buiten Kirrin afspeelt. En ik ben er ook enthousiast over! Wat mij betreft combineert dit boek alle goede, belangrijke elementen die een goede kinderdetective moet hebben: goede en gevarieerde personages, spanning en onverwachte gebeurtenissen en een mysterieuze setting. Google "Enid Blyton racism" and you find lots of articles. Her home town is very divided as some regard her as an icon and others actually remember her as a "nasty piece of work" - a sexist, racist, antisemitic, snob. The sexism is flagrant in her books too. The girls are always "helping mother to cook the dinner" or doing some other little domestic task. Not the boys, of course. I enjoyed this book mainly for the atmosphere created by Enid Blyton. It was also filled with many interesting and dubious characters right from the cold Mr.Lenoir to the slightly eccentric smuggler, Mr.Barling. As a child, I kept second-guessing the motives of the supposed anatagonists. If you cannot open a .mobi file on your mobile device, please use .epub with an appropriate eReader.Who reads Enid Blyton nowadays? I have a feeling that she is read mostly by adults, in a spirit of nostalgia. I doubt very much whether many of today's children choose to read about the Famous Five. Most will have the discernment to read exactly what they choose. Younger children of course will have their books chosen for them by adults. Some of these picture books may well be by Enid Blyton, who will be fondly remembered by their parents. After all, she wrote dozens of books and there are probably some in there which are free of this damaging potential influence. Your children love her? They are enthralled by her magic? Fine. But what I would say is PLEASE read the book yourself before letting your child read it. If it's inappropriate then discuss why. Put it in its historical context - discuss prejudice of all types, class distinctions etc. 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 adventure starts off with the Five heading off to Kirrin Island for their much-loved, idyllic vacation. But a terrible gale puts a damper in plans when it uproots a massive ash tree straight onto Kirrin Cottage. A house badly in need of repairs, a guilty but easily irritable Uncle Quentin, four active children and one big, excitable dog…..poor Aunt Fanny is in a right mess. Having established that her books have exciting story lines it has to be said that they are very restricted in the vocabulary they use. This is probably partly why kids love them of course! And there's absolutely no harm in reading this type of easy book with lots of repetition for pleasure, as an extra outside school. But there is a plethora of other options - books which are not contentious in this way, where the attitudes shown are far less questionable and socially damaging. OK, not really... BUT HE COULD HAVE BEEN is my point. It turns out that this chap is extremely grumpy and lives at the top of an island (which I'm pretty sure is a thinly disguised St. Michael's Mount, complete with a causeway and everything) that turns out to be honeycombed with secret smugglers' tunnels. Guess who's still using the smugglers' tunnels? That's right: smugglers. Who could have possibly seen that coming?!Both children and adults have no arc in this book. There is just a clumsy collage of scenes that look pathetic to the eye. The smugglers, the hosts, the victims of kidnapping, all of them seem to lug no pulse in them, and no brain activity whatsoever. Given that there seems to be two of the brightest minds in science under that sinister and lugubrious roof, God help us what lesser mortals act like in that murky and brownish grey universe. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-09-11 09:02:30 Boxid IA1928310 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The mystery unfolds with many strange happenings and the Five are plunged into adventure yet again!

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. But here the solitariness of the book is dull as grain. I have no idea why I am writing so much about a book that I disdain, but sometimes muses have minds of their own. Do not read this book without preparing for it. Do not expect all Famous Five books to be created equal, for some are moreso than others. This book ought not to have seen the light of the day. This is the 4th book in the series. The first 3 are much better. I rate them thus :- 2nd, 1st, 3rd. Then we have this one, which is a marked departure from the usualness of the series. The adventure fails on all fronts.

Smuggler’s Top is an ancient house steeped in mystery. There are hidden passages behind panels, deep pits under ordinary floors that lead into a honeycomb of passages, some known and others where a clueless person could get lost in…forever.Timmy is not allowed at Smuggler's Top, so the children have to smuggle him in and out via a trapdoor that leads to passages below. Having witnessed signalling from the tower, the boys investigate. But then a figure comes down the stairs!