Famous Five 'Adult' Books!

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I have seen one or two of the Ladybird ones and they are far better than Bruno Vincent's efforts.
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The ladybird ones are actually quite funny (though I wouldn't personally buy them). Arguably they are damaging the wholesome and child friendly quality of the Ladybird name but at least they are good and the titles are usually easily distinguishable from the real ladybird storybooks. With the FF parodies it is difficult to tell at a casual glance that they are not the real FF stories and also they are just boring!
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Using Eileen Soper's illustrations was the last straw - now why not use those ghastly cartoony covers instead? Answer - the Soper ones added further credence to the Blyton name. Disgraceful.
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I've missed a lot of recent developments regarding these books so interesting to catch up on them here. I'm surprised at their success and amused at that article in the Daily Mail.

Hopefully their existence will at least continue to get Enid a bit of free publicity and help to shift a few genuine EB books.
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Judging by what people say about them on the Quercus facebook page, I should think they'll soon surpass Enid's real books in popularity.
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Daisy wrote:Using Eileen Soper's illustrations was the last straw - now why not use those ghastly cartoony covers instead? Answer - the Soper ones added further credence to the Blyton name. Disgraceful.
I agree with you, Daisy. Further credence and as a disguise.
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Thankfully Betty Maxey's work has so far been unadulterated in this shocking manner.

I have to admit though that the quality of the books covers themselves are very well done indeed and are a credit to the artist who had the unenviable job of following in Eileen Soper's footsteps.
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pete9012S wrote:Thankfully Betty Maxey's work has so far been unadulterated in this shocking manner.
Oh, that could be arranged, Pete (I don't have your expertise with graphics, so this is the best I can do for now)... :wink:

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:lol: Good one Courtenay.
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I like it! :lol:
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pete9012S wrote:Thankfully Betty Maxey's work has so far been unadulterated in this shocking manner.
I think that you are quite safe there, Pete! :lol:
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Nice one Courtenay! :D :D :D

Your mock up was far better than the usual tosh I serve up!
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I just took at look at the comments on Five Forget Mother's Day on Amazon.co.uk. There are only eight reviews altogether so far and I limited myself to the 5 star and 1 star reviews.

Of the two 5 star reviews, one was totally useless as the reviewer didn't seem to have read the book and appeared to think she was reviewing a genuine Enid Blyton:

By catherine mcdonald on 23 February 2017
Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase
I love to read Enid blyton books they are my favourite books to read and I love all the characters in the book and you can imagine yourself in the story Enid blyton one of my favourite writer's by Catherine Mcdonlad


Of the three 1 star reviews, two were totally useless as they were nothing to do with the content of the book:

By Amazon Customer on 11 March 2017
Format: Hardcover
Awful.mother to her own children.
Comment| 2 people found this helpful.

By mrs l vanheeson 14 March 2017
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
I can't [review it] yet as it hasn't been delivered since March 9 !!


No wonder Amazon have to do a spot of deleting now and then!
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And yet I tried to place a review on Amazon US that mentioned their shoddy delivery and processing speeds (ordered March 7 - delivered yesterday - cost - around £20 postage - and they told me they couldn't post the review because the subject wasn't relevant! :shock:
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Just opened the periodicals delivery and thought the New Statesman cover looked a bit familiar!

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"It's the ash! It's falling!" yelled Julian, almost startling Dick out of his wits...
"Listen to its terrible groans and creaks!" yelled Julian, almost beside himself with impatience.


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