The Enid Blyton Haiku Game

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The Enid Blyton Haiku Game

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So here's my attempt at starting a new game. How it works: one poster creates a haiku describing or otherwise referring to a specific Enid Blyton book. The person who figures out which book the haiku is about will get the next shot. The haiku consists, of course, of three lines: five syllables, seven syllables and five syllables. It's a fun way of playing around with trivia, plot, characters and so on. If posters are struggling to guess the answer, the original poster may provide clues at his or her discretion. Here's the first one:

Extinct birds fly there
High above the depths below
Red stains become green


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Great fun!

Surely that's The Island of Adventure? (Though Great Auks don't - or didn't - fly). The "depths" could refer both to the sea and the mines, with the red and green stains caused by the copper.

Here's the next one:

Children discover
Revolving magical lands;
Saucepans clank and clash
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
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Anita Bensoussane wrote: Children discover
Revolving magical lands;
Saucepans clank and clash
Is it the Faraway tree series? :wink: Magic lands are the lands which appear on the top of the far away tree, and which the children discover.And the Saucepans -The Saucepan Man.
"How funny grown-ups are!"said Anne, puzzled."I'm quite certain I shall be thrilled to see a sliding panel or a trap-door even when I'm a hundred".
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It was specifically The Enchanted Wood (the word "discover" was meant to imply the first book in the series) but you're close enough Muminah, so over to you!
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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Thanks Anita! :) It was quite diificult for me to make a question, but finally managed one. I sat with a pencil and a paper and thought and thought and finally got one. I hope it's correct.

Seaside Secrets
Smuggled pasts
Towers of communcation.
"How funny grown-ups are!"said Anne, puzzled."I'm quite certain I shall be thrilled to see a sliding panel or a trap-door even when I'm a hundred".
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The seaside, smugglers and towers - could it perhaps be The Secret of Spiggy Holes? There may well be other possibilities of course so I'll await your response, Muminah.
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Correct Anita!! :D It is indeed The Secret of Spiggy Holes. I just finished rereading it a few days ago, and found it interesting as ever. :)
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Thanks, Muminah.

Next one:

Down in the cellar
Half a dozen bruised apples
Start to go rotten
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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Is this something to do with the short story Make Haste and Be Careful? I know it had to do with the best way of storing apples. If it isn't then I have no idea.
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Would I be evil enough to base a haiku around a short story? :wink: It's an idea worth considering for the future though, Shadow! :twisted:

Hints:

- "Half a dozen" is quite a clue.

- At first I called the bruised apples "bad apples," but then decided they weren't really so thoroughly bad.

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It's six bad boys, how obvious. Thanks for the very good clues. :P
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You're spot on, of course. Over to you, Shadow!
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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I'm not very good at this sort of thing and its hard to follow on from some great verse. Here goes

Four children are they
Dad goes off to America
Will he ever return


I hope this is OK
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Is it The Family at Red-Roofs?
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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Yes it is, over to you.
If I could live here on this secret island always and always and always, and never grow up at all, I would be quite happy
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