Enid Blyton's Holiday Adventures

by Enid Blyton

A wonderful selection of stories to read and share. From sandcastles at the beach to enchanted ice-creams, step into the summer with these delightful characters. Adventure, fun and magic can all be found on holiday with Enid Blyton, who has been delighting readers for more than seventy years.

First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Hodder and Stoughton as Holiday Stories. This abridged edition created in 2017 for promotional purposes in Australia only.

Genres: Fiction, Audiobook, Short Stories, Childrens, Adventure, Fantasy, British Literature

186 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

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

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a series of summer/holiday adventure stories, from smugglers caves to magic seaweed. I liked that there was lots of different stories, some stories were shorter than others, but most weren't too short, so you could get into them.  They were fun, and there was a lot of magic.

[Abbie Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sweet book for children. This would be fun read aloud. People noted Enid’s repetition of storylines I could see how reading everything she’s ever written could get tedious but on the whole wholesome stories of children learning good lessons play together and then her fun fairy stories, brownies, and others are unique and sweet. I’ll definitely put these on my children’s shelves as they get older. It seems people are upset at her characters say mean things to each other but I never caught where it was portrayed as an okay thing. She had a few stories of nasty children learning their lessons in various ways and changing their ways.

[Nicole · Rating 2 out of 5]

This review is for those who may be reading to 8 year olds and younger.

Absolutely delightful stories about kids having everyday adventures. Unfortunately, there were just a couple of stories in the bunch that eventually led us to turn off the audiobook.

First, even the "good" kids (the protagonists) were talking rudely in some stories. Example: A few children label another child "lazy", describe him as "lazy", and name-call him "Lazy." They didn't try to talk to him about it, just name-call, embarrass, and attempt to force him to work. Another story two siblings are constantly arguing and - and learn their lesson by the end- but it is still a lot of arguing to slog through.

Second, the story about the stolen bicycle was totally off-base: portrayed the policemen in the story as good though they completely bungled an investigation, profiled a man on a bike, jumped to conclusions, and gave away a bicycle without checking the facts.

These two things might make it a good story for other kids, but for the 3 year old and 6 year old audience that was listening to this audiobook, it just wasn't the right fit.

[Fay Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

The kids loved this collection of short stories for the summer holidays. The favourites were Adventure up a Tree, The Donkey on the Sands and A Visit to the Seaside

[Astrid Lim · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun read from Enid Blyton - short stories about summer holidays, from realistic fiction about holiday at the beach, to some magical stories from various books. I plan to collect the other books from this series as well!

[Hemalatha S · Rating 5 out of 5]

this story is very interesting and fun to read, i especially like the first story when Janet and Peter visit their grandfather ( probably because the characters are the same as the secret seven). It's a very nice book and I really enjoyed reading it

[Jenna Mills · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some sweet stories. Am not a huge fan of short stories but 3yo liked these.

[Lilly Bacon · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was adventures but he beat thing about it was it loads of good stories big and small

[Hot Garbage · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Angélique · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alors lorsque j'ai vu ce livre dans la liste des services presses, cela m'a intrigué. Notamment car ma libraire préférée de Strasbourg (La librairie Kleber) m'avait justement conseillé ce livre pour les enfants qui aimaient bien Roald Dahl par exemple. J'étais donc heureuse de pouvoir essayer. Le nom de l'auteur ne me disait absolument rien, jusqu'à ce que je le reçoive et que je vois qu'il s'agit de l'auteur qui a écrit « Le club des cinq ». Cependant je dois dire que cela remonte à un moment, depuis la dernière fois que j'ai lu ces histoires. Quoi qu'il en soit j'ai passé un moment sympathique. Je remercie les éditions Hachette pour cet envoi.

Résumons un peu. Un recueil de vingt-six histoires de l'auteur du Club des Cinq à déguster sur la plage. Des châteaux de sable aux glaces enchantées, Enid Blyton nous fait voyager sous le soleil entre aventure, magie et légèreté.

Alors cela arrive très rarement, mais cela ne va pas être une chronique comme habituellement pour la simple et bonne raison qu'il s'agit de plusieurs petites histoires, avec plusieurs personnages et des histoires différentes à chaque fois. Je vais donc faire comme je le pense et ce qui me vient.

Donc l'auteur nous emmène dans ce livre dans différentes petites histoires mais ayant un point/thème commun : les vacances d'été. En effet, nous retrouvons des enfants, soit des jumeaux, soit un frère et une sœur et avec généralement un chien ; qui partent en vacances à la mer. Mais il y a également des histoires avec des créatures magiques (fées, farfadets, algues magiques...). Je dois dire que ces petites histoires sont plutôt sympathiques, elles sont parfois même touchantes. On remarque même que dans certaines histoires, il y a une petite morale à la fin (ne pas faire trop de caprice, lorsque l'on est gâté). L'idée est donc très bonne je pense pour les enfants, en tout cas. Cependant je me dois de souligner un petit bémol. Je comprends qu'un auteur utilise un certain schéma pour ces histoires, mais lorsqu'ils sont rassemblés dans une seule et même œuvre, on se rend vite compte de ce schéma. Et du coup une impression de déjà-vu nous submerge. Je m'explique dans toutes ces histoires, nous retrouvons forcément une fratrie à chaque fois (seul les noms changent), les péripéties changent mais la construction est exactement la même. Je pense que l'auteur aurait pu changer de temps en temps ce schéma.

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[gemsbooknook Geramie Kate Barker · Rating 4 out of 5]

'From sand castles at the beach to enchanted ice-creams, step into the summer with these delightful characters. Adventure, fun and magic can all be found on holiday with Enid Blyton, who has been delighting readers for more than seventy years.'

The stories previously appeared in magazines and anthologies from the 40s and 60s. This collection contains the original texts and is unillustrated. The collection contains:

At Seaside Cottage
The Magic Ice Cream
Wagger Goes to the Show
A Surprise for Jimmy
The Twins Get in a Fix
The Enchanted Cloak
Adventure Up a Tree
John's Hanky
The Magic Watering Can
Peppermint Rock
The Donkey on the Sands
In the Middle of the Night
A Bit of Blue Sky
The Smugglers' Caves

I was a bit disappointed with this book.

I was really excited by the idea of this book. A collection of Enid Blyton's short stories all set around Holiday Adventures. Who wouldn't be excited by that. Unfortunately it was a little lackluster. Dont get me wrong some of the stories were wonderful, but overall I was disappointed.

I was also disappointed by the fact that this collection wasnt illustrated. I always love seeing the little illustrations that go along with Enid Blyton's stories and I was sad that I didn't get them in this book.

On a positive note; I was able to put this book down after each individual story without worrying about forgetting what had happened. I can see this as being a massive positive for young readers. They could read one story each night before bed.

I also enjoyed getting to read about some of my favourite characters again. As I have been making my way through Enid Blyton's books, I have come to love certain characters, and getting to read about them again in this book was wonderful.

Holiday Adventures by Enid Blyton is the perfect book for young readers to read before bed, a story a night keeps the doctor away. Isnt that a saying? If not, it should be.

Geramie Kate Barker
gemsbooknook.wordpress.com

[Lynne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Childhood revisited. Honestly :-)

[Soulrainstore Azrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bagus buku ni untuk bacaan anak anak
Banyak perkataan baharu untuk dipelajari

[Sibilina · Rating 5 out of 5]

R.I.P. Enid Blyton, you would have hated ipad kids.