The Famous Five #20

Five Have a Mystery to Solve

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Whispering Island - another mysterious place, with a million stories sorrounding it ...Is it haunted? The Five are intrigued, but scared, too. Are they brave enough to go there and find out ...

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2001

This edition

Format
280 pages, Paperback
Published
January 1, 2001 by Hodder Children's Books
ISBN
9780340796344
ASIN
0340796340
Language
English
Characters More characters
  • George Kirrin (Famous Five)

    George Kirrin (famous Five)

    George is a girl, with a boyish lean. She is a tomboy and insists that people call her George. With her short hair and boys clothes she is often mistaken for a boy, which pleases her enormously. Like her father, Quentin, George has a fiery temper. S...

  • Dick Kirrin

    Dick Kirrin

    Dick is the middle sibling to Julian and Anne of Enid Blytons Famous Five series. He is eleven at the start of the series (the same age as his cousin George). Dick has a cheeky sense of humour, but is also dependable and kind in nature. Dick is very...

  • Timmy

    Timmy

    Timmy (also known as Tim or Timothy) is Georges dog. He is a golden mongrel and is the fifth member of the "Famous Five" gang.more...

  • Anne (Famous Five)
  • Julian (Famous Five)

About the author

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See also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)

Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.

Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.

Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.

According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.

See also her pen name Mary Pollock

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