Spanish Famous Five Covers.

[Oscar Spain]

Of course, Tony!
LOS CINCO Y EL TESORO DE LA ISLA / FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND
Date: 1964
Publisher: Editorial Juventud.
Illustrator: Jose Correas
Translated by: Juan Rios de la Rosa.

By the way in the picture, George hasn´t blue eyes, an error from Mr. Correas.

[Tony Summerfield]

I have put your covers in for the first three books, Oscar, and I like the look of them so I will add some more. I will keep putting the date as 1964, but you must tell me if there is a change of illustrator, publisher or date.

[Oscar Spain]

Ok Tony!
FIVE GO ADVENTURING AGAIN.
Illustration: Jose Correas
Date: 1964
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FIVE RUN AWAY TOGETHER
Illustration: Jose Correas
Date: 1965

Tomorrow I´ll scan the rest of covers with the date (the illustrator never changed)

Thank you in tha name of spanish fans!

[Tony Summerfield]

Thanks Oscar, I have just changed the Run Away Together date. I have added the first eight books now!

[Rob Houghton]

They are some of the nicest famous Five covers, i think, outside of the Eileen Soper editions, of course. i love the colours and the children are 'modern' (to the times the books were published) but old fashioned enough to be 'ageless'.

[Lucky Star]

Yes they are definitely very nice covers. On the cover of Five go off to Camp George actually looks very nice in a skirt. I dont imagine the real George would have been quite so smiley while being forced to wear one though.

[Oscar Spain]

Here you are a few covers more...

FIVE FALL INTO ADVENTURE / In the cover: George


FIVE ON A HIKE TOGETHER / In the cover: Dick and Julian´s body.


FIVE ON FINNISTON FARM / In the cover: Famous Five


FIVE GO DOWN TO THE SEA / In the cover: George & Anne


FIVE HAVE PLENTY OF FUN / In the cover: Julian and Timmy


Sorry for delay!

[Tony Summerfield]

No problem, Oscar, I had plenty of other things to do! I will add them today, but I do need some publication dates please.

[Oscar Spain]

Hello Tony, you have an e-mail with dates, tonight I´ll finished the work scanning last spanish covers!
Best wishes to all!

[db105]

Seeing that the pictures of the covers are broken links, I will repost them, using the ones from the Cave of Books when available and finding the others.

They are the work of José Correas, and they are a classic part of the childhood of many children in Spain, including mine. (Not any more, though. The Famous Five books are in print but with different covers).



Five on a Treasure Island




Five Go Adventuring Again




Five Run Away Together




Five Go to Smuggler's Top




Five Go Off in a Caravan




Five on Kirrin Island Again




Five Go Off to Camp




Five Get Into Trouble




Five Fall Into Adventure




Five on a Hike Together




Five Have a Wonderful Time




Five Go Down to the Sea




Five Go to Mystery Moor




Five Have Plenty of Fun




Five on a Secret Trail




Five Go to Billycock Hill




Five Get Into a Fix




Five on Finniston Farm




Five Go to Demon's Rocks




Five Have a Mystery to Solve




Five Are Together Again




And the back cover of those books looks like this:

[pete9012S]

Superb db105 - thank you!

May I ask if there are internal illustrations and who does them?
Sorry if that's already been mentioned.

(Edited as I am an idiot!)

[db105]

Well, Oscar was the one who originally posted these. I'm just reposting them.

There are internal illustrations, yes, by the same author, I think...

[db105]

The modern Spanish covers look like this (the artist is Marina Vidal Martínez):


Five on a Treasure Island




Five Go Adventuring Again




Five Run Away Together




Five Go to Smuggler's Top




Five Go Off in a Caravan




Five on Kirrin Island Again




Five Go Off to Camp




Five Get Into Trouble




Five Fall Into Adventure




Five on a Hike Together




Five Have a Wonderful Time




Five Go Down to the Sea




Five Go to Mystery Moor




Five Have Plenty of Fun




Five on a Secret Trail




Five Go to Billycock Hill




Five Get Into a Fix




Five on Finniston Farm




Five Go to Demon's Rocks




Five Have a Mystery to Solve




Five Are Together Again




And the back cover of one those books looks like this:

[pete9012S]

Many thanks db105 - not for the first time I got my wires crossed!

Many thanks too for all those wonderful internals - they certainly give Betty Maxey a run for her money.
I really like them.

Regards

Pete

[db105]

Yes, I also rather like José Correas' work. And for me those older books will always be "my" version. The modern covers by Marina Vidal Martínez (I have posted all of them above) do have the advantage that they are more closely related to the contents of the book.