Enid Blyton The Mystery Of The Burnt Cottage Pdf Files

Findouters Challenge: Book 1. Among Enid Blyton’s mystery series, the Five Findouters have always been my favourite (though I read and loved the others too), one reason being the very imaginative solutions to so many of their cases. This time around I’ve decided to read all 15 of the books chronologically for the first time. The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage is the first of the series and opens with siblings Laurence “Larry” and Margaret “Daisy” Daykin waking up to the smell of a fire. They and th Findouters Challenge: Book 1. Among Enid Blyton’s mystery series, the Five Findouters have always been my favourite (though I read and loved the others too), one reason being the very imaginative solutions to so many of their cases. This time around I’ve decided to read all 15 of the books chronologically for the first time.

The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage is the first of the series and opens with siblings Laurence “Larry” and Margaret “Daisy” Daykin waking up to the smell of a fire. They and their friends Philip “Pip” and Elizabeth “Bets” Hilton step out to investigate and find that a wooden cottage which serves as workshop for one of their neighbours Mr Hick is on fire and valuable documents have been destroyed. Mr Hick himself was on his way back from London at the time, but most of the people he employed, and his “rival” of sorts in the study of documents pretty much dislike him, and justifiably so. Download Free Email Outlook Pdf Student Web Uom there.

At the scene of the fire, Larry, Daisy, Pip and Bets meet a fat boy who’s been staying at the local inn with his parents, and who they (the first three) don’t much take to, and his little Scottie who they all love. Soon they find themselves forming a “detective” club of sorts (thus becoming the Five Findouters and Dog) in which they reluctantly include Fatty (who they name after his initials F.A.T.

And appearance) and little Bets, starting on their investigations and trying to stay a step ahead of their village constable Mr Goon, who pretty much enters the scene with his trademark clear orfs. Towards the end they also make the acquaintance of Inspector Jenks who turns into a good friend to the children, as the series progresses.

This was a fun first book in the series but for me lacked the full flavour of the later books. I enjoyed the mystery element though it wasn’t among the best of the lot (instead the kind that one has come across in other books too and can guess at). Fatty is of course a bit of a boaster and one can see why the other children find him annoying but I thought they treated poor Bets rather shamefully, considering as in the other books in the series, it is she that finds the most important clues. Bets in this one is eight years old but EB seems to have made her a little too young for her age. And while there is some food and eating in the book, it is nowhere as much as the later books where there were many many trips to the tea shop and plenty of eating in Fatty’s shed. Still this was a good beginning to the series, and a nice enough mystery which I enjoyed revisiting.

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Three and a half stars. A student member of our book club read this, so I decided to give it a read. What a charming story about 5 kids and a dog.

It took me back to my childhood, although I wasn't around at the writing of this book. I loved the English phrases/accents!

'I'll be ready in a tick.' And of course the kids called the copper 'Ol Clear Orf,' because he always told the kids to clear off. Childhood innocence, with a tad of mischief, and always in good manners. Again, quite charming and fun, even tho A student member of our book club read this, so I decided to give it a read. What a charming story about 5 kids and a dog.

It took me back to my childhood, although I wasn't around at the writing of this book. I loved the English phrases/accents! 'I'll be ready in a tick.' And of course the kids called the copper 'Ol Clear Orf,' because he always told the kids to clear off. Childhood innocence, with a tad of mischief, and always in good manners. Again, quite charming and fun, even though it was a bit predictable. I enjoyed it primarily for the 1940s, English countryside, kids viewpoint of the world, reading experience.

Just a simple, feel good read. I guess I am a kid at heart! Before I choose the book, I was afraid from not completing it. I bought it in 2009 when I decided to read an english books.

I read it twice but I could not complete it because of the hard vocabulary. To let you know english is my second language. Furthermore I challenged myself to read The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage even if it is children book. I liked the begging of the story when the cottage was burnt and how the 5 children and Buster the dog decided to know who burnt the cottage because the Before I choose the book, I was afraid from not completing it.