The Naughtiest Girl: Here's The Naughtiest Girl: Book 4

The Naughtiest Girl #4

by Enid Blyton

In Enid Blyton's highly popular school series, Elizabeth Allen is at boarding school. She's tried being the naughtiest pupil there, but now she's got a new challenge...In book four, there's a new boy in Elizabeth's class. He's sulky and grumpy and he'll do anything to show Elizabeth up. She means to keep her temper, but it's not so easy for someone who was once the naughtiest girl in the school...Between 1940 and 1952, Enid Blyton wrote four novels about Naughtiest Girl, Elizabeth Allen. Books 5-10 are authorised sequels of the series written by Anne Digby in 1999. Bonus A rare, complete serial story about a very special school. An interview with Enid Blyton about her school days. Enid Blyton's experiences as a teacher. A timeline of the author's life. Photos from Enid Blyton's younger days.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, School, Classics, Indonesian Literature, Novels, School Stories

70 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1940

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

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

Blyton's books are never very long but this final* Naughtiest Girl book is so short it only just creeps out of the realm of the short story. As a result, there's not a huge amount of plot here. What there is is fine but it ended just as it was getting going.

* Yes, I know there are several more books in the series but they were written by other authors after Blyton's death and really don't interest me.

[Clare · Rating 5 out of 5]

I listened to this as an audio book. Here's the Naughtiest Girl was the last book in the series written by Enid Blyton. Although this is a naughtiest girl book, the book is centred on the new boy Patrick who is Julian's cousin. Patrick is a spiteful boy who thinks he is better then Julian. He is jealous of Julian who is always top of the class and good at tennis.

They both compete with each other to see who will be top of the class but Patrick cannot keep up.

When the rest of the class send him to Coventry, he decides to runaway.

[Enia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a short, cute, silly and yet heartwarming book. Membaca buku karangan Ms. Enid Blyton benar-benar seperti sedang memakan biskuit ditemani secangkir teh hangat di tengah-tengah hujan saat sedang bergelung nyaman di selimut di dalam kamar yang hangat. Kisahnya yang membuat saya selalu tersenyum kecil dan merasakan nostalgia membuat saya selalu eager membaca buku-buku karangannya yang masih banyak yang belum terbaca.

Anyway, saya cukup memberi 3 bintang untuk buku ini karena this one is too short so I feel like everything is a bit rushed and too many telling rather than showing. Still it feels good to come back to Ms. Blyton's world even if it just for a while.

[dian · Rating 3 out of 5]

sometime in my primary school days I read this book..
and I dreamt & wished I'm in that school..

[Imas · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buku cerita anak yang sederhana. Menyenangkan mengingat kembali saat-saat disekolah. Persaingan untuk memperoleh nilai tertinggi, persahabatan dan pertengkaran. Elizabeth si anak badung yang menjadi pengawas harus berhadapan dengan Patrick si anak baru yang sombong dan anti anak perempuan. Patrick sendiri merupakan sepupu Julian sahabat Elizabeth. Elizabeth dan Julian sama-sama tidak menyukai Patrick. Konflik yang akhirnya membuat Patrick ingin melarikan diri dari sekolah yang dibencinya..

[Grace Tjan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jess, my 8-year old little girl, gives it 3 stars.

"This one is very short."

[Aravena · Rating 2 out of 5]

Judul keempat dan terakhir dari seri Si Badung yang ditulis Enid Blyton. Judul yang ini jauh lebih tipis daripada biasanya, jadi tidak begitu terasa seperti novel. Plot yang diangkat juga sebenarnya amat mirip dengan yang di Sekali Lagi Si Paling Badung: ada murid lelaki baru yang datang-datang langsung cari masalah dan bersaing secara tidak sehat dengan Elizabeth (Si Badung). Jadi ada kesan mengulang, tapi dalam versi yang lebih pendek dan tidak segereget yang di Sekali lagi Si Paling Badung.

Tentunya, gaya penuturan dan dialog khas Blyton yang jenaka masih ada di sini. Hanya saja, karena terbatasnya jumlah halaman/konflik/karakter, nuansa sekolah berasrama dan penokohan karakter-karakternya tidak sekuat karya-karya beliau lainnya. Agak disayangkan juga kenapa ini yang jadi judul 'perpisahan'nya Blyton dengan si Badung, dan saya tidak merekomendasikan judul ini jadi yang pertama dibaca oleh yang penasaran dengan seri Si Badung (*kecuali kalau benar-benar malas baca buku di atas 100 halaman :v). Meski begitu, judul ini tidak mengurangi minat saya untuk baca judul lainnya dalam seri ini, baik yang ditulis Blyton sendiri maupun seri penerusnya oleh Anne Digby.

[Vinay Leo - vinayleoreads · Rating 4 out of 5]

#2019 #YearInBooks Book 25

This is the fourth and final of the Enid Blyton written books in the Naughtiest Girl series, after which Anne Digby takes over. It's a short 80pg novella actually.

The students return to Whyteleafe again and the novella introduces Patrick, Julian's competitive cousin who promptly starts trying to outshine him and Elizabeth. The novella follows the rivalry mostly.

I liked the book but it felt a bit rushed. Not my favourite book so far but that's ok. Doesn't hurt the series at all. Most of Digby's books seem to be short too, so could make more sense together with those.

[Azizah SL · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ceritanya nanggung amat. Seri tertipis dari ketiga seri sebelumnya. Seolah dibuat hanya jadi cerita sisipan 😅.

[Aanya Sachdeva · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was so short
I want more, what happens next😭🤧............

[Rita Nurday · Rating 4 out of 5]

[Edit 1 November]

4/5 ⭐

Bercerita tentang keseharian Elizabeth, siswa sekolah asrama campuran.

Singkatnya ceritanya nagih untuk diikuti, dinamika siswa-siswi sekolah asrama.

Dari sana aku mendapat sudut pandang tentang kesetaraan gender, keberanian untuk meminta maaf, dan persahabatan. Juga persaingan yang sehat, kemudian keberanian untuk memilih.

Untuk buku anak-anak (middle grade?)... Ini seharusnya aku baca pas masih muda haha... Supaya tertanam paham tentang bagaimana cara meminta maaf, bagaimana berinteraksi dengan orang lain. Elizabeth bisa jadi role model sih menuritku.

Kayaknya aku mau baca dari buku pertama 🤟🤟

[Ini dia si Paling Badung]
The Naughtiest girl #4
Enid Blyton © 1952

🆔 Djokolelono
Gramedia; cetakan V 2017; 92 Halaman.
Cerita anak berilustrasi.

Baca 15 Oktober (selesai dalam sekali duduk)
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[15 Oktober]
Baca ini dalam sekali duduk.

Ini buku pertama yang kuselesaikan apda Oktober. Lagi susah fokus baca dari awal bulan HIKD.

Ini buku pertama yang kutemukan dan pinjam secara acak. Belum tahu siapa sebenarnya si penulis, nggak bisa nebak ceritanya akan bagaimana bahkan urutan seriesnya pun belum cari tahu (shook ternyata ini udah buku keempat 🤣).

Aku cuma berpikir kira-kira ini buku anak atau middle grade.

Kesanku pas baca cerita ini adalah rasanya seperti baca manga 😆👍✨.
Nggak hanya karena buku ini bergambar tapi interaksi antar tokoh dan plotnya... Entah menurutku maga baget.

Seru sih aku seneng hehe 😄

Sekian~

[Neti Triwinanti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buku terakhir sekaligus yang paling tipis dari Serial Elizabeth Allen a.k.a Si Badung. Dalam buku ini diceritakan tentang konflik Elizabeth ALlen dan Julian (who turns out to be the best student in class) dengan Patrick, sepupu Julian. Patrick selalu ingin mengalahkan Julian dan Elizabeth, serta iri jika mereka menempati posisi diatasnya.
Berbeda dari 3 buku sebelumnya, buku ini tidak lagi menceritakan pelaksanaan Rapat besar. Bahkan sosok ketua murid William dan Rita tidak muncul. Sesuatu yang bagus sih menurut saya, karena akan terkesan monoton jika pola yang diulang-ulang lagi.
Kekurangan dari buku ini adalah bahwa konfliknya cukup superfisial dan tidak terlalu memainkan emosi seperti buku buku sebelumnya. Bisa dibilang hanya terdapat satu konflik dalam buku. dan cerita dalam buku ini tidak diselesaikan hingga semester berakhir. Cerita terhenti ketika Elizabeth, Julian, dan Patrick akhirnya menyelesaikan konflik diantara mereka. Tetapi tetap saja buku ini menghibur dan penuh pelajaran.
Insight utama yang saya dapat sih: berprestasilah. dan jadilah orang yang sportif. :))

[Haniva Zahra · Rating 4 out of 5]

inilah buku yang sebenarnya pertama kali saya baca :)) karena paling tipis jadi saya kira ini justru buku pertama seri si badung. awalnya ketika membaca kok ya merasa ini agak loncat ceritanya, semacam tidak cocok sebagai buku pertama. tapi entah kenapa ya diteruskan saja membacanya.
saya membaca ini di tengah-tengah persiapan maju presentasi kasuistik, menyelesaikan laporan dan juga mengerjakan beberapa pekerjaan lain.
ceritanya tentang? peran Ellizabeth sebagai pengawas bagi teman-temannya, ia juga berusaha membuat anak baru nyaman bersekolah di sekolah asrama. buat saya menyenangkan sekali membacanya, ringan namun sarat makna :) jenis buku yang tanpa ragu akan terus abadi dan saya pastikan anak-anak saya akan sempat membacanya.

[Kirsti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another fun story, about Elizabeth Allen and her naughty school days. We have our fair share of Julian, Joan and Arabella, as well as the other characters from Enid's other books here. It also introduces Patrick, Julian's cousin. As always there are complaints and grumbles, meetings and delicious dinners. Seriously never read Enid on an empty stomach, you start craving the weirdest things!

I realized I haven't reviewed this and the following books in this series that was continued on by Anne Digby, despite them featuring in my favorite childhood books, so I thought why not end a holiday by binge reading? If you enjoyed the previous titles, you'll probably like this one too. Five stars!

[Hil · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was new to me - never read it before. It's a very short book compared to the other Naughtiest Girl books but I believe it was originally a story in an anthology or something. It was nice to have a bit more time with the characters as I liked these books a lot, and all the ones after this point aren't written by Enid Blyton. I'm going to read the next one just to see what it's like though.

[Lottie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is the last Enid Blyton wrote in the series it was then taken over by Anne Digby. This one is really short and centres around a new boy in Elizabeth's class who takes a dislike to her and her to him and she tries to keep her temper and tries to be good but finds that extremely difficult. Again this was extremely short and a quick read and again I didn't really enjoy it.

[Gie · Rating 3 out of 5]

bahagia itu waktu bersua lagi dengan buku Enid ini di bazar buku. Walau sebenarnya buku yang saya ingin dapatkan itu yang seri buku saku lebah, tapi melihat ini pun hati saya berbuncah teringat masa kanak-kanak di mana saya suka membaca buku karya Enid ini, walau lupa apa-apa saja :D

[Pradita Artha · Rating 4 out of 5]

selesai dalam waktu 1 jam saja :) bukunya super tipis, tapi punya banyak makna. jelas, saya akan simpan buku ini untuk bacaan anak saya kelak. agar mereka tahu kalau di buku yang sangat tipis ini, mereka bisa belajar banyak hal tentang pertemanan ;)

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book funny.
I collect them all to read, and I've got to admit they are all good, but this one is my favourite out of the ones I've got.

[Tantri 0314 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seingat saya, saya tidak pernah membaca serial ini. Ternyata saya cukup menyukainya. Saya berniat mencari buku lainnya. Semoga saya menemukannya!

[Farseer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this series is less well-known than Blyton's other two boarding school series (Malory Towers and St. Clare's), but it's a quite interesting and enjoyable read for children.

Unlike the more traditional girl schools in the other two series, the school in the Naughtiest Girl series, Whyteleafe, is a "progressive" boarding school, co-educational, and run as a democratic community, with the children governing themselves with some adult supervision. It's apparently inspired by a real-life school, Summerhill, which was founded in 1921.

This particular entry in the series is actually a novelette rather than a regular book. Elizabeth again a monitor, and the conflict is provided by the arrival of a new boy who is Julian's cousin, but who seems rather surly and spoiled.

The resolution is a bit quick because of the short length, but nevertheless this is an enjoyable story in the same style as the three previous books.

This is the last Naughtiest Girl story Enid Blyton wrote. There are more books but they are continuation novels written by a different writer.

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Patrick came to Whyteleafe thinking it would be a great chance to beat his cousin Julian at everything - but Julian had turned over a new leaf and was top of the form and even good at tennis too! As Julian’s friend and form Monitor, Elizabeth couldn’t help getting involved - but trust the Naughtiest Girl to do things differently…

This is really a short story, but it’s the last of Enid Blyton’s own Naughtiest Girl books. Some familiar themes as Patrick has to learn to adjust to Whyteleafe and his problems are not unsympathetically drawn. Elizabeth, no plaster saint but sometimes carried away by her feelings, is always an attractive heroine and here she is very believable as she mixes trying to do her monitorly duty with her dislike of Patrick and realisation of how things seem from his point of view. The way Patrick, Julian and Elizabeth reconcile without any big scene involving the Head Boy and Girl or staff is a departure from other NG books but it makes a nice change to have this happen in a way that said authorities would probably disapprove of.

[Renov Rainbow · Rating 3 out of 5]

117-2021
96 hal

Seri keempat ini tipis banget.
Hanya ada satu anak baru yaitu Patrick, saudara sepupu Julian yang nggak suka satu sekolah bareng Julian. Dia juga benci kenyataan kalau sekolah ini campur, cewek dan cowok. Di sekolah lamanya hanya untuk anak laki laki saja.

Dia juga tidak senang mendapati kenyataan kalau Julian yang sepengetahuan dia selalu ranking bontot, ternyata malah peringkat satu setiap minggunya. Dia juga benci karena Julian disukai banyak anak lain apalagi ketika Julian mulai main tenis. Dia takut tidak masuk ke dalam tim untuk pertandingan gara-gara sepupunya lebih hebat.

Pertengkaran juga sering terjadi antara Elizabeth, yang sudah jadi sahabat Julian lagi dengan Patrick. Kejadian terakhir lumayan bikin drama banget tapi bikin kita jadi pengen lanjut ke buku berikutnya.

[Rizki Wulandari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sekolah Whyteleafe kedatangan murid baru bernama Patrick. Dia berada di kelas yang sama dengan Elizabeth. Perangainya hampir sama dengan Elizabeth waktu masih menjadi anak yang badung. Dia bersikap seperti itu karena tidak rela pindah ke sekolah baru dan menganggap Whyteleafe sekolah yang membosankan. Patrick yang pemarah dan tidak ramah itu juga merupakan sepupu Julian yang juga sekelas dengan Elizabeth. Apakah akhirnya Patrick akan luluh dan menyukai Whyteleafe? Ini merupakan buku keempat dari seri The Naughtiest Girl karangan Enid Blyton. Buku ini yang paling tipis diantara tiga temannya (92 halaman) dengan ukuran huruf yang lumayan besar. Jadi dapat dituntaskan dengan cepat.

[Pages · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m slightly horrified that I didn’t realise there was a short story that continued Elizabeth’s tale.

I thought Enid Blyton had just written the three books and the rest were the new author.

Imagine, my delight, in discovering I had fresh words from a beloved author in my favourite series!

It’s a nice, little short story. Took me fifteen minutes to read. Nice to see Julian back and John Terry still tending his garden.

[Sathya Sekar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its a very short novella.. it was like fast forwarding your way through a movie. I recently came to know with some surprise that there was a fourth installment of the Naughtiest Girl series penned by Enid Blyton but I realise why it is not considered a part of the series. It's easy too small. But still, we get to meet Elizabeth again and the story is just about how she and Julian manage to come to terms with Julian's cousin Patrick, the new not of the summer term. Good fun but oh so little..

[Ocha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mungkin ini jadinya kalo masalah per anak dijadiin satu buku karena 3 buku sebelumnya memuat masalah dari banyak anak-anak dan permasalahannya kadang masalah satu berhubungan sama masalah lainnya. Buku ini hanya menceritakan masalah seputar Elizabeth, Julian dan anak baru, Patrick. Namun tidak terlalu menonjolkan Elizabeth sebagai main chara. Satu lagi, terlalu pendek sebagai penutup seri Si Badung :(

[Sean Harding · Rating 2 out of 5]

Final book by Blyton in this series (Some other person wrote another six books but they are not the original series) anyway little more than a short story with little plot and little else to say about it, almost superfluous, but hey if you are really missing the characters that much go nuts and enjoy what you can out of the last dregs of this series.

[Ira Booklover · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wah tidak terasa sudah selesai saya membacanya. Kisah Elizabeth di buku ini pendek saja. Seperti biasa, Elizabeth punya masalah lagi dengan anak baru. Kali namanya Patrick. Patrick ini egois dan gampang iri dengan kesuksesan orang lain. Dia juga tidak suka dengan sekolah Whyteleafe. Bisakah Elizabeth sebagai seorang Pengawas membuat Patrick untuk memperbaiki sikapnya? Yuk dibaca 🤭

[Advait Parbat · Rating 5 out of 5]

There was a new boy named Patrick and he was a naughty one, he was Naughtiest boy so Elizabeth was to scold him in the night but suddenly a message flew from cupboard and it was from Patrick and he was locked inside cupboard and that was funny.. ..........I enjoyed reading it.🙃🤟🙃😄🤣