The Adventure Series!

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Daisy wrote:I'm not sure, without checking, that it was more a threat to hit poor Horace, although I know when he had told Bill that Lucy-Ann was the worst, she was highly indignant as she said she was the only one who had said she couldn't.
The children treat Lucian in a kind of bullying way - in fact I know someone who won't read Ship again, because he is so incensed with their attitude. Again, I don't think they physically attack him.
Thank you, I was worried my edition was heavily edited! I agree that they are too harsh on Lucian, he's a bit of a wimp but he's not a bad guy. Also in "Ship", Lucy-Ann didn't know what a labyrinth was, at 11-12, that also seems a bit drippy to me..
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stardust wrote: Also in "Ship", Lucy-Ann didn't know what a labyrinth was, at 11-12, that also seems a bit drippy to me..
Terrible vocab for an English child of her age.
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I'd guess it's just Enid's regular device of having the youngest child in the story not know an unusual word and ask what it means, which allows Enid to explain it (via one of the older characters) for the benefit of any younger readers who might also not know that word. She does it a lot with Bets in the Find-Outers books — with words like detectives, clues ("glues" :wink: ), inspector, insurance, anonymous, alibi, and so on.
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I agree with you, Courtenay. :D
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Darrell71 wrote:
stardust wrote: Also in "Ship", Lucy-Ann didn't know what a labyrinth was, at 11-12, that also seems a bit drippy to me..
Terrible vocab for an English child of her age.
I bit like writing 'vocab' for vocabulary!
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I think I learned from "Ship" what an archipelago is.
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I think I did, too - although it still sounds like a musical term to me! :lol:
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I don't think it odd that Lucy-Ann didn't know what a labyrinth was. I only knew because I read Enid Blyton books, she obviously didn't.
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Yes - I don't think I would have known what a labyrinth was, either, as a child. Its easy for younger members to forget that even back 15 years we didn't have access to information via the internet, and so we weren't so well-informed as people might be these days. As children we really only knew as much as our parents or teachers (or Enid Blyton!) told us. :D
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Her grasp of biblical and historical knowledge in The River Of Adventure is noteworthy.
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Wolfgang wrote:I think I learned from "Ship" what an archipelago is.
And I learned from "Valley of Adventure" how to distinguish stalagmites and stalactites. 8)
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Also the term "lagoon" in "Sea of Adventure" was a first for me thanks to the book.
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All the so-called experts who said that Enid had a limited vocabulary and all of us on here learnt many new words by reading her books in childhood.
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Completely agree! I'm guessing though that those critics probably only read a few Famous Fives (or maybe even Noddy) and were basing their 'findings' on just those!
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John Pickup wrote:All the so-called experts who said that Enid had a limited vocabulary and all of us on here learnt many new words by reading her books in childhood.
You are right, John! 8)
Plus she made me read much more books by other authors even though I have to admit that other children's books authors couldn't write as gripping as she did. But that's just my humble opinion.
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