Part of Series
Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series Five Go to Billycock Hill The five are excited to befriend a pilot on holiday. But when he disappears with top-secret equipment, they begin to wonder if he could be a spy ... Five Get Into a Fix On a wonderful skiing holiday, the Five spot a seemingly deserted house. But why do they then see a face in the window? And why does it look so terrified? Five on Finniston Farm When they hear that the farm where they're staying has hidden dungeons, the Five can't resist seeking them out. Could they be hiding a dark secret?
Author
See also: Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek) Enida Blaitona (Latvian) Энид Блайтон (Russian) Inid Blajton (Serbian) Енід 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
