I read them one after the other straight off, I'm like a child in a sweet shop when I find a new EB book! Absolutely notice the similarities between those and later works but just as enjoyable. I've spent the last 2 hours reading The Raynham Marsh mystery - Secret Passage or island (?) section of th...

Please let me know if you got my PM Tony as my outbox says (1) but it doesn't show up in my 'sent' box so not sure if it went or not....

You're a star! Will PM you now!

That's the one! Thank you for that information I did try and find it in the Cave of Books earlier but I'm still learning to navigate the site. What a shame the cover artist is the biggest mystery of all!

Being a child of the 70s the Famous Five books I collected were the Knight ones with the photo covers from the TV series, although I have all the books five of them are from other publishers. I'd like to replace them so I have all the same ones on my shelf. They are available on eBay but I thought I...

Noddy jigsaw by Arrow Games Ltd, 12 piece wooden in box. Fairly good condition for the age, looks like one corner has been reinforced with sellotape at some point but it's still quite a sturdy box. £5.00 including P&P to UK. Hope photo works! [img http://i1378.photobucket.com/albums/ah93/Charlot...

A lovely copy of The Secret of Cliff Castle / Smuggler Ben arrived this morning for me. I've never read it not even in my youth so looking forward to curling up with that in bed later! It's a hardback Collins 1959 edition with dustjacket - originally priced at 3/6! Why do the illustrators not get cr...

George Kirrin. (no contest!)

George Kirrin or Moonface?

Julian and George searched through a tower,
Then their torch ran out of power;
Said George, "What'll we do?"
"Stick together," said Ju,
But in a corner they did cower!

Next one ...

Loony raced through the house with a brush

Julian and George searched through a tower,
Then their torch ran out of power

Goon decided to marry one fine day,
It was in the merry month of May,
But once when the bride
Sat down and she cried

Within minutes of discovering this website only last week I paid my yearly subscription to join the Society, to my amazement the last Journal was posted to me the very next day! THANK YOU!! It was wonderful to receive something other than a bill in the mail and it went perfectly with a strong coffee...

I took my 3 sons on a Mediterranean cruise last October and it just so happened that the day we docked for an excursion to Rome was a Wednesday. I'd forgotten that the Pope does his audience in the morning so it was a real bonus that we got dropped off by St Peter's Square first and we managed to ca...

I recently read the Faraway Tree books again, many of my Blytons are boxed up but I plan to rescue them out of storage very soon and list what I have. As an adult I picture the Faraway Tree slightly differently to when I was a child, also the illustrations of Moonface vary somewhat, to me his head r...

I only discovered last night that 'Dick' Gary Russell and the Dr Who author are one and the same! My Dr Who and also Famous Five mad 11 yr old (well trained ) has quite a few of his books so was thrilled when I told him of the connection. Amazing episode idea, would also be great as a novel!