The Adventure Series  (English, Paperback, Enid Blyton)

This collection of three books is all about the great adventures of four children and a parrot in locations spanning from England to Greece to the Middle East!

Summary Of The Book

This box-set, very aptly called The Adventure Series, consists of three immensely loved, thrilling, and bestselling titles by Enid Blyton. These are The Island of Adventure, The Castle of Adventure, and The Valley of Adventure. The three books primarily features four children who are markedly different from one another as the main characters and a parrot.

The children are Jack, Dinah, Philip, and Lucy-Ann. The parrot is Jack’s pet and his name is Kiki. They have a knack of stumbling upon irregular happenings and solving mysteries. While they do not need much adult help in unfolding puzzles, the parrot comes to their rescue more often than not.

The Castle of Adventure is centered around a ruined castle in Scotland. The children promise their aunt that they will go to the castle for bird-spotting but usual to their demeanour, they start looking for a way inside the castle and so the adventure kickstarts.
In The Island of Adventure, the children borrow a boat and go to the Isle of Gloom. The journey under the sea and into the copper mines is certainly eerie, but there is a lot the children have to encounter before they uncover many truths, including what goes on in the copper mines and who Bill Smugs really is.

In The Valley of Adventure, the children find themselves in a wrong place and are transported to a magnificent but deserted valley. However, this book is not all about mountains and waterfalls. It involves dreary caves and tunnels, a prisoner, and to top it all- a treasure hunt!

These books have taught many to enjoy reading and while these stories were first published around the 1950s, they have successfully retained their charm and popularity over the decades. The experience of reading these books is enhanced, for children and adults alike, by the wonderful supporting illustrations. In 1996, all of these novels were adapted into television versions.

About Enid Blyton

Born on the 11th of August, 1897 in London, Enid Blyton was, and remains, one of the most widely published and widely read writers.
Some of the other books written by her are The Secret Seven series, The Famous Five series, The Malory Towers series, The Mistletoe Farm series, The Adventurous Four Series, The Naughtiest Girl series, and The Family Adventure Series.

Some of Blyton’s writings are fantastical while others are about children faced with ordinary and extraordinary situations. Her stories are fast-paced, simple to understand and engrossing, and the characters extremely appealing and lifelike. Britain often served as the backdrop for most of her works.

She is especially famous as an imminent author in children’s literature. She trained as a teacher and wrote in her spare time. She married Hugh Alexander Pollock and the couple had two children, Gillian and Imogen. After she divorced Pollock in 1942, she married Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died on the 18th of November, 1968 because of Alzheimer’s disease.