The Enid Blyton Society

This article is a bit out of date now,but I enjoyed reading through it :

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Thanks for that link Pete. An interesting article.

     I'd just like to ask a question about this. It may be a typo, but there is a passage that makes me wonder if I've somehow missed a whole novel in one of the adventure series.
     To quote from the article:

The stories were a development of an idea first published in 1941 as The
Adventurous Four when Andy, the Fisherboy, helped Tom and his twin sisters to solve wartime
mysteries in Scotland. Two further books were published in 1947 and 1948 and a short story in
1952.

     This clearly suggests that there are three Adventurous Four novels plus a short story; but I have only ever known of two novels plus the short story.
     Does anyone know about this, please? Is it just a mistake? (I could understand typing "three" instead of "two" just being a simple mistake; but putting in an extra publication year seems far less accidental, somehow.)
     Also, how is the article out of date?

Regards, Michael.

Hi Michael. I think it is an error.
As you know, The Cave lists two books and one short story.

I wondered about this statement too:

It was writing ‘The Adventurous Four’ in
1941 that gave Enid Blyton the idea for her
Famous Five series.

Anyone heard that statement before?

Regards

Pete

Apart from the fact they both feature islands I can't think why The Adventurous Four should have in any way inspired the Five books.

pete9012S wrote:Hi Michael. I think it is an error.
As you know, The Cave lists two books and one short story.

I wondered about this statement too:

It was writing ‘The Adventurous Four’ in
1941 that gave Enid Blyton the idea for her
Famous Five series.

Anyone heard that statement before?

never heard that one before! Sounds pretty unlikely, considering that 'The Children of Kidillin' had been written before either of those series, in 1940, and so had 'The Secret Island' and 'The Secret of Spiggy Holes' - which bear much more of a resemblance to 'Five On A Treasure Island' than 'The Adventurous Four'! I always consider The Adventurous Four to be on on its own, as it seems very unlike any other Blyton book (although it shares aspects with The Children of Kidillin)