Originally, the series was supposed to end after this episode, but under the great demand of dedicated fans, Blyton wrote two more episodes: Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-01-04 13:01:51 Boxid IA40027709 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Edward Francis told The Guardian at the time of its broadcast [3] that "Dinah takes the initiative far more. She confronts and debates things in a modern way. And there is more parity in the children's relationship with their widowed mother than in the original; she's less formal and disciplinarian". Three years later, [4] commenting on the updates which had seen an anti-tank device and the SAS included in the storyline, Anna Home (former head of children's programmes at the BBC who had been at TVS earlier in the 1980s) mentioned that Blyton "suffer(ed) from being neither truly period nor modern; it is difficult for writers and actors to know whether to retain the language and accent of the period or try to update it", and suggested that the dramatisation had not been "particularly successful". According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.

Dinah Mannering: Philip's younger sister of about twelve at the beginning of the series. Like her brother, she has a tuft of hair standing up atop her head, but she shares neither his gift in attracting, nor his love for, animals, especially the small creeping types (mice, insects, snakes etc.). Temperamental as she is, she often finds herself the target of her brother's teasing, but otherwise she is quite level-headed, tough, intelligent and grown-up for her age. If you cannot open a .mobi file on your mobile device, please use .epub with an appropriate eReader.

The Castle of Adventure (published in 1946) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the second book in The Adventure Series. The first edition of the book was illustrated by Stuart Tresilian.

The eagles are surprised and puzzled by Kiki, a bird that can screech like an eagle but talk like a human! This is got to be one of my favourite Enid Blyton books. I really like most of the Adventure series, But this is my favourite one of all of them. Terrestrial repeats of the series were unknown once it was aired. However, a year later, a video was released, although some scenes were edited out, and it aired on The Children's Channel after TVS had lost its ITV franchise. Along with TVS' other programmes, it has been kept off the DVD market for complicated legal reasons, but is available on YouTube. Love the children, This book never talks down to kids, It allows the responsibility for their actions, it lets them go and do what are used to do to learn to be future adults. It is so far from The way the parent today... We could learn a lot. Yes there is danger, but that’s just life. The kids in this are courageous and look after one another. There is maybe a slight leaning on the side of misogynous tendency but that’s just the time it was written. Enid was very much in favour of equality and that comes across in all her books, this one in particular.I love all books by Enid Blyton. I first read this book about 35 years ago. I still love it 35 years hence. The adventures the four children had in the castle on the hill have engrossed my sister and me for a long time. The boldness of the children to explore things on their own, the courage to enter a castle which looked scary and overgrown, and their adventurous spirt all fascinated me as a child and still do. I loved the character of Philip because I am an animal lover myself. My only disappointment is that my daughters do not appreciate Enid Blyton's style of writing as much as I did at their age. They tell me they can't relate to things written in her books and perhaps its true. For those were the good old days , 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. Following the events in The Ship of Adventure, Bill marries Mrs Mannering and adopts all the children as his own. The children call him Bill Smugs due to the fact that he introduced himself under that alias on their first adventure. There is just one surprise in this story and that too a small one. This was one of the reasons I liked to read it so many times – because nothing is lost by having it read it already. urn:lcp:castleofadventur0000blyt_y9s7:lcpdf:393304de-3d73-4186-b2c8-2d0d760ae34e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier castleofadventur0000blyt_y9s7 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t74v6j56m Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781447205241