What was the first Blyton book you read?

Rob Houghton · Post by **Rob Houghton** » 23 May 2019, 23:47

I definitely know my second Famous Five book - it was Five Go To Mystery Moor -- annual version!

PaulB123 · Post by **PaulB123** » 03 Jun 2019, 13:24

Mine would have been one of the Secret Seven books, I can't remember which one but I have strange feeling it was Good Work SS as the idea of Guy disguise sticks in my mind as such a a clever plan.

Famous Five would have been Mystery Moor as I remember my Dad buying it for me as he knew I had enjoyed the SS books and this was a "step up" in reading stakes as the FF were older children.

I came last to the FFO, which are still my favourite series of books, think it was they were so different to the FF and I always wanted to be Fatty with all his amazing abilities

burlingtonbertram · Post by **burlingtonbertram** » 29 Jun 2019, 20:57

My first was Five Go To Demon's Rocks, in the 70's. A second hand hard-back. Someone had coloured in a couple of the illustrations.

I loved the story but the book itself seemed antique. I was relieved to later replace it with a paper-back copy with a cover photo from the TV series. It felt more 'canonical' to me.

I'm now shocked to see it wasn't published until 1961 (well, so Wikipedia claims) and I have genuinely antiquarian books. Plus I mostly collect pre-decimal Blytons...

kirrin_castle · Post by **kirrin_castle** » 29 Jun 2019, 21:33

I had The Folk Of The Faraway Tree, Five On A Treasure Island, Five Have A Wonderful Time, Five Go To Mystery Moor, The Castle Of Adventure and The Mountain Of Adventure handed down to me from my brother. I can't remember if I read The Folk Of The Faraway Tree first or not, I guess so, but I know it was Five On A Treasure Island that started my life long love of her books. I then got the rest of the FF series & Adventure Series (or rather my parents did) and loved them all as a child. I'm sure Castle was my first Adventure Series book I read, and I'm sure this is why it remains as my favourite of the series

Gary Russell · Post by **Gary Russell** » 29 Jun 2019, 22:20

The first I read was Five on a Treasure Island. The first I had read *to* me was the Noddy one where the cat's tail gets caught in his car and somebody ends up wearing it as a fur collar. I think. I may be mixing Noddy stories up of course...

Courtenay · Post by **Courtenay** » 29 Jun 2019, 23:05

That was Noddy and His Car, funnily enough — I've just recently read it myself.

burlingtonbertram · Post by **burlingtonbertram** » 30 Jun 2019, 09:11

Whoops. My earlier post about Demons Rocks was wrong; I'd not thought far enough back. I was forgetting about Messrs Twiddle and Pinkwhistle. Not to mention Pip the pixie. Mr Pinkwhistle being my favourite, at the time.

I shouldn't post in an evening when my brain is on stand-by.

Stephen · Post by **Stephen** » 30 Jun 2019, 09:48

Gary Russell wrote:The first I read was Five on a Treasure Island. The first I had read *to* me was the Noddy one where the cat's tail gets caught in his car and somebody ends up wearing it as a fur collar. I think. I may be mixing Noddy stories up of course...

Courtenay wrote:That was Noddy and His Car, funnily enough — I've just recently read it myself.

Thank you so much! I KNEW I'd read more Noddy than I previously thought, and this was the one!

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