Spanish Famous Five Covers.

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Spanish Famous Five Covers.

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Here you are three covers. They´re ilustrated by José Correas, in my opinion they´re really good.
I think Mr.Correas was based on Eileen Soper, What´s your opinion?

By the way, the titles are:
FIVE ON A TREASURE ISLAND / LOS CINCO Y EL TESORO DE LA ISLA
FIVE GO ADVERTURING AGAIN / OTRA AVENTURA DE LOS CINCO
FIVE RUN AWAY TOGETHER / LOS CINCO SE ESCAPAN JUNTOS

P.S.: If you like I could scan all the covers.
George and Tim
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Anne and Tim
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Dick and Tim
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Post by Julie2owlsdene »

The covers of the Spanish books are certainly different from the original covers when the books were first published, Oscar. If you go to the home page and have a look in the cave of books, you will find all the Famous Five titles and will be able to see how much different they are. :D

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Those are nice covers - but am I alone in thinking that the too-red lips make George look very like a girl?! :lol:
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Ming wrote:Those are nice covers - but am I alone in thinking that the too-red lips make George look very like a girl?! :lol:
Ha,ha,ha!! Don´t worry, this day she puts on her some colour in the lips just for the "photo" under editor´s pressure. :)
By the way, here I have three more covers that, in my opinion, are directly inspirated in Soper work.

FIVE GO OFF IN A CARAVAN
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FIVE GO TO MISTERY MOOR
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FIVE GET INTO A FIX
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Edited: My God! In FIVE GO OFF IN A CARAVAN... George with skirt and blond!!
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Ming wrote:Those are nice covers - but am I alone in thinking that the too-red lips make George look very like a girl?! :lol:
No you are not, Ming. I too think the same. :)
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Philip Mannering wrote:
Ming wrote:Those are nice covers - but am I alone in thinking that the too-red lips make George look very like a girl?! :lol:
No you are not, Ming. I too think the same. :)
Never mind the lips, isn't the skirt a bit of a giveaway? :?
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No Moonraker, the thing is that her trousers are wet, then she is wearing an Anne´s skirt! (But Enid don´t say nothing about in the novel because George revised the book before the publication) :)
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Here you are new covers from spanish Famous Five.
FIVE GO OFF TO CAMP

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FIVE ON KIRRIN ISLAND AGAIN
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FIVE GET INTO TROUBLE
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FIVE GO TO SMUGGLER`S TOP
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Post by Julie2owlsdene »

Nice to see the covers for the Spanish books, Oscar, when you say the new covers, does that mean they are up to date for 2009.

Timmy looks so different from the books I have. He looks more like the Timmy I know on the cover of Five Go Off To Camp.

It's nice to see them.

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I like the Los Cinco Se Escapan cover best. The colours are muted yet attractive and I like the alert, serious expressions of the child (I'm not sure whether it's George or Dick) and Timmy.

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Hello Julie! Oh, excuse me, when I say "new" I must say new upload!
This covers are the original from the first spanish editions!
Yes, I love Timmy picture too!

Anita, this is one of my fav covers!, they are Dick and Timmy, George is on the first cover: Five on a treasure Island.

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Thanks, Oscar. It's nice that the first four book covers each focus on one of the four children.

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Oh, yes, every book with every child!
By the way when I was a child I was in love with Anne because of this cover!
Ha,ha,ha! There is a beauty picture FIVE GO ADVENTURING AGAIN!
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The first three with George, Anne and Dick are lovely but I'm not so keen on the Julian one (Smuggler's Top) as he looks thoroughly disgruntled.

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You say these are the first Spanish editions, Oscar, if you can give me the date they were published and the publisher I will put one into the Cave to see what people think - shall we say Five on a Treasure Island as a trial.
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