"The Secret Island" takes place within 5 months (I believe it's July and summer vacations when the kids run away from their nasty aunt).IceMaiden wrote:One thing that never occurred to me though on previous reads is how long the children are on the island for in the first book. As most EB adventures generally seem to last a week or two, I assumed this one did too, but on reading it it must be a lot longer.
In the 1980's I typed a statistic for the Adventure series with the age of the children and where it was set:
1. The Island of Adventure
duration: 43 days
2. The Castle of Adventure
duration: 18 days
3. The Valley of Adventure
duration: 15 days (although it feels much longer)
4. The Sea of Adventure
duration: 17 days (felt much longer to me)
5. The Mountain of Adventure
duration: 19 days
6. The Ship of Adventure
duration: 44 days (longer than "Island of Adventure")
7. The Circus of Adventure
duration: 17 days (again, this always feels much longer to me when I re-read it)
8. The River of Adventure
duration: 18 days
I had the same statistic for the Famous Five, but it got lost.