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The Castle of Adventure (2006)

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0330446304 (ISBN13: 9780330446303)
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The Castle Of Adventure (2006) - Plot & Excerpts

Four children are holidaying near a broken down, shut-up castle in Wales, which turns out to be the center of nefarious activities. They have to get into the castle, because a pair of eagles is nesting in the courtyard. What they don't know about, until it's too late, is the bad guys nesting under the castle.The exciting "Adventure" series is a children's classic. CASTLE, second in the series, was written in 1946, so it's historical for today's children, as well. The main characters are brothers and sisters Jack and Lucy-Ann, and Philip and Dinah. Jack always carries a parrot named Kiki, a memorable clown. Philip attracts animals wherever he goes, and Blyton makes the animals an active part of her plots and character dynamics.The four children together are a permanently engaging group -- you should introduce your children to them.

This is one of my absolute favourite Enid Blyton adventure stories. The castle itself is the perfect setting for an adventure like this, in terms of the brooding atmosphere surrounding it as well as the wonderful physical locations (such as the fusty, musty, dusty old rooms, the not-quite-unused kitchen and, of course, the hidden room) it brings to the story.The nesting eagles are some of the best used and most vividly realised "guest-animals" in this series. The regular characters, meanwhile, are just as delightfully adventurous and unflappably stoical in the face of danger as they were in the first book.This is quite simply a first class children's adventure story.

What do You think about The Castle Of Adventure (2006)?

This was the first book I read in this series as a child. I must have read it close to 25 years. I got to revisit the book recently after close to 2 decades. Having read it so many times, even after such a long gap, the entire book was embedded in my mind scene by scene. It is a lovely book and all the characters are in their elements - Jack who is mad about birds is photographing Eagles, Philip works his charms on humans as well as animals, Lucy-Ann the loving younger sister and Dinah the sensible one of the group. The imagery in the book is superb and I could mentally see the castle. Many years later when I saw a similar castle in Germany, I actually felt a deja vu feeling. The mystery is good as well.
—Karthik

A rip-roaring mystery adventure with suspected spooks in the castle that is visited by four friends, their parrot, a friendly fox and a gypsy girl. Lots of mysterious goings on and the children get locked in the spooky place with, semmingly no hope of escape.But that is not the case as, with the help of some older, and wiser friends, one of them manages to get out and bring help so that the mystery is eventually solved but not before lots of heartache for the children.A pleasant out of the ordinary read, ideal for a change of pace and setting.
—Gerry

Another old childhood favorite. All I can say is: Oy! and ai yi yi! and *headdesk* *facepalm* *cringe* …and SRSLY!!! Of the many, many cringeworthy moments found all over the book, all I'm going to mention/ask is silver doesn't rust, right? It tarnishes, right? This one doesn't stand the test of time. Note even close.** But in true Blyton tradition, it made me hungry. (Also, I read it in Finnish, and they haven't updated the language at all. Charmingly archaic, it was.) **But…the reread did give me the warm fuzzies because I have such happy memories tied to these books, so I didn't totally hate the experience.
—ms bookjunkie

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