Enid Blyton70 Year Celebratory Edition Adventure Series Collection (8 Books)

About

Jack, Philip, Dinah and Lucy-Ann, together with Jack's intelligent and talkative parrot Kiki, have the most extraordinary adventures not only in England, Scotland and Wales but also abroad — Austria, Greece, the Middle East and even Tauri-Hessia!

Whether dealing with forgers, gunrunners, Nazis, traitors, mad scientists, or thieves, they frequently find themselves in desperate situations. Their adventures are a step up from those of the Famous Five in that they involve aeroplanes, motorboats, a cruise-ship, seaplanes, and helicopters.

Then there are the stunning locations. Who could forget Craggy-Tops and the mysterious Isle of Gloom, not to mention castles, rivers, valleys, mountains, caves, underground passages, and islands galore?

Jack is a bird-lover obsessed with finding a Great Auk, Philip has the ability to charm animals of all kinds from lizards to bears, Dinah is a feisty, adventurous girl while Lucy-Ann, affectionate and home-loving and not really one for adventures at all, is actually the bravest of the lot. As for Kiki, she has a knack of saying just the right thing at the right time and her mischievous antics brighten many a dark moment.

These children simply can't help stumbling across strange goings-on wherever they go. As adult character Bill Smugs remarks: "I never saw such children for smelling out adventures! I believe if I took you to visit my dear old aunt, we should find she had suddenly been kidnapped in a submarine, and you were forced to go to the other end of the world to rescue her!"

The first book, The Island of Adventure, was published in 1944 and there are eight titles in total. TV films of the first two books, The Island of Adventure and The Castle of Adventure, were made in the UK in 1982 and 1990 respectively. There was also a New Zealand TV series in the 1990s but that was only very loosely based on the original books.

Titles Included

• The Castle Adventure
• The River of Adventure
• The Valley of Adventure 
• The Sea of Adventure
• The Ship of Adventure
• The Mountain of Adventure
• The Circus of Adventure
• The Island of Adventure.