Malory Towers Collection 3 Books 7 9

Malory Towers #7-9

by Enid Blyton

Malory Towers Collection

Genres: Childrens

640 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 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

[Silvana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some characters are clearly copies of Darrell's era BUT I still enjoyed the stories as they do had some interesting plots.
Meanwhile, Bonnie is a fun new character. I liked having more flawed characters but still good-hearted and cool in their own ways. She is definitely my fave now.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

I know I'm 32 and therefore not exactly the target demographic, but I love returning to Blyton when I'm tired or unwell. I thought I would try the follow-on Malory Towers books written by a different author. For me, these new novels were nowhere near as good as the original. The stories followed similar patterns to the originals, but the new author doesn't have Blyton's knack of sketching a character, place or story in just a few keys words.

[thongeshwari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Many drastic changes. One on the cover itself! This book is written by Pamela Cox. Also the protoganist is Felicity. Many senarios and characters have been repeated: Gwen=Amy, Darrel=Felicity, Alicia=June, Sally=Susan, Bill=Freddie, Clarisa=Juile, etc

[Bethany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Idk why it’s listed as written by Enid blyton when it was written by Pamela fox 🧐🧐

[Mrs V J Kotziamani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not by Enid Blyton!

I suddenly noticed that someone called Cox had written the book I was about to move onto. Did I miss something? I thought. So when I'd finished this volume, I checked the cover. Enid Blyton. Hm! I feel cheated for having grown up with Malory Towers and using lockdown to read them again to see if I could still recommend the books to my granddaughters, I shall be purchasing for them, the original six; i.e. Collections 1 and 2. I feel I must add that this was a pale imitation. Before I made my discovery, the rather pedestrian, copy cat and unoriginal content was starting to irritate. I put it down to my age and reading so many in a row. True, it was never great literature, but she started me in a life long reading habit, and the sensible characteristics of the girls she depicted were good role models for a kid from l working class family. It certainly helped me fit in when I started at grammar school with girls who were from posh families compared to mine.

[Jayasuha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the dear old malory towers so much. When i got to know that Pamela Cox wrote this book, I felt bored but when I started to read this, the book was of so much fun and she continued the story very well. Especially June's character was humorous and the trick she plays on mam'zelle dupont and miss tallant was so good. You should definitely read this if you already read the first and second collections. Have a good day.

[Mrs Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The recipe always works out well.

Reading this series has proved to be my guilty pleasure in lockdown! A trip back to my youth when a Mallory Towers, or St Claire's, book would be what I used my five shillings pocket money for!

[Samaira SP · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the book and it is a bit mysterious when Jack was kidnapped

[Tracey Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent

I didn’t want to love these as Enid Blyton wasn’t actually the author
I read them because of a deal for Kindle via Amazon and wow they are absolutely excellent!
Just as good as the first books and I might even say the plots/endings are better!

[Vri B · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant book
. I just love it .. gives the perfect experience of school life with the actual probs

[Fairuz Aina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finished the whole series! It felt like leaving high school all over again sob sob...

[Catherine Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first collection of Malory Towers written by Pamela Cox. It's a good read, and Cox does well to capture the Blyton vibe, not making the stories too modern :-)

[Deb Sharp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a fun series

[Ashish Khunger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book

Amazing book very interesting and would recommend it has words that would be very good for a students vocabulary and learning