The Secret Forest

by Enid Blyton

Peggy, Mike, Nora and Jack have been invited to the kingdom of Baronia for the holidays! In their friend Prince Paul's home, hidden away in the heart of the mountains, they stumble into their greatest adventure yet. Can the children defeat the robbers in the Secret Forest?

Genres: Mystery, Adventure, Childrens, Classics

208 pages, Paperback

Published January 14, 2016

About the author

See also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)

Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.

Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.

Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.

According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.

See also her pen name Mary Pollock

Reviews

[Teresa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed it. The adventure took a while to get going in this one. Also I prefer when it's just the children for most of the story but the adults were in this from page one. Yes it's her usual trope of caves, underground passages and rivers but once through all these the adventure on the other side is always good. She manages to create tension easily. Even as an adult I had to keep reading to see what was going to happen to the gang.

I think this was originally titled The Secret of Killimooin. I had a job trying to get them in order because of this. So I've actually missed out one. I'll get back to it at some stage but they're stand alone reads anyway.

[kutingtin · Rating 3 out of 5]

more like a 3.5, i’ve heard of Enid Blyton but it is only now that i get to read one of her stories and what and adventure this one was! it took me back to my childhood days where my friends and I would explore the mountains in Bamban and the small creeks in Clark. One would think just how dangerous this kids get themselves into thanks to brave company and the great Beowald, everyone was safe and dandy. Much more so, this was the free book I got from BBW2024 and heyheyhey I read it in 2024! haha, challenge accepted👊🏻

[Kathryn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Apart from the 'you girls can't go on the adventure you'd just get into trouble' storyline, this was another great, jolly hockey sticks adventure with loads of stereotypical simple mountain folk, an improbable blind goat herd who could climb mountains and a made up European country called Baronia where all the citizens cheer on their lovely royal family and don't mind a bit being poor if only they can catch a glimpse of the little prince riding by. And lashings of ginger beer.

[Deborah Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good story, but disappointed that the girls were completely left out of the adventures this time.

[Sneha · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Mat · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice read when you want something simple.

[Anwar Maricar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got to re-read this book again. One of my first little novels I read in my school days.