that's really sad news. i am reading enid blyton's biography and i have just read the chapter where gillian is born.

I have been rereading malory towers (after being inspired by you lot!) and i found it strange that each girl is suposed to have one friend. f they are desperate they can make a threesome with two other less popular girls. At the begining Darrell is sad that she can't be alicia's friend because she i...

hi, i have just been looking on ebay for the naughtiest girl books, another of my favourites when i was young, i always thought that there were three books, but it seems there were 4, however anne digby (i used to like her too!) has written another 6 books in the series. Has anyone read these and if...

there was something about snoek on the tv the other night, aparently it was disgusting and barked like a dog!

i think the famous five usually started with the kids geting ready for the start of term and all the adventures they might have. It's been a long time since i read them so i could be wrong, but i definetly some of them starting like that!
caroline

when i was at school, it was the really annoying people who wer good at games, i was terrible, the good ones were always the teacher's pets. I think if i couold have just been allowed to be rubbish at sports then i might have enjoyed it more, but you had to be really good or everyone just made fun o...

it's so much nicer to read the old books, it reminds me of being little, the pictures are lovely too, i have found a couple more on ebay, not spending more than a couple of pounds though!
caroline

got my parcel from ebay this morning, it is first term at malory towers, fourth eition and the pictures are lovely. When i used to read them as a child, i had the proper old books because they all came from jumble sales (my dad was stingy!) they are much nicer than the modern books. Come to think of...

you would have to be quite wealthy though wouldn't you? I can't imagine packing up my kids and sending them off for the term, though sometimes the weekend might be nice! it's a long time to go wwithout seeing your parents when you are young isn't it. I think it would be quite boring for the mums, i ...

hi, don't know if this has already been discussed, but if we assume that you would have to be quite wealthy to send your daughter to Malory Towers, does anyone know what the girl's fathers did for a living. Also, what did their mothers do all term when their children were at school?
caroline

i like noddy and my two year old little girl loves the ones on channel 5!
caroline

i still can't believe that I never heard of them, although it would have been hard for me when i was a child living in a remote part of scotland before the internet! I used to be really upset at the end of the last mt, i would have given anything to know what happened next! I am trying to look at th...

wow! I managed to find a website which said it had translated these books but it took a along time to come up and i am not very patient. Have you ead the books in german or have they been translated? I can't believe i never heard of them. I wonder what posesed the author to write the follow up to su...

:shock: I saw on Wilkipedia that the german version of malory towers has added another 6 books in which darrell marries and has children and eventually becomes head of malory towers! Has anyone else heard of this? i feel a bit upset by this! I am going to try and put the link on bt i'm ot very good ...

thanks a lot! I wasn't sure if I had done it or not. It has been raining for about 3 days here, i don't think it is ever going to stop!
caroline