Five Run Away Together: Five Go to Smuggler's Top

by Enid Blyton

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340412909
• ISBN13: 9780340412909
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Hodder Headline Australia
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great fun

A book filled with adventure. In this story, the Famous Five believe to trail smugglers on their island and young and older readers will have a good time finding out the true mystery. Children will dream of taking part in an adventure such as the five friends are having and older readers will re-live their childhood fantasies. Famous Five books deserve five stars and more.

Excellent childrens' adventures

This was one of my favorites books in a serries that was a hall mark of my childhood. The children in Blyton's books have adventures that include burried treasure and secret rooms. They are gripping with nary a hint of magic wands or video games. In our world of internet and cell phones some of their problems will seem no challenge to modern children, but for those who can see these in the world in which they were set, they are wonderous. In this adventure the children are forced to fend for themselves as their aunt is suddenly taken ill and forced to hospital, leaving them under the thumb of a venomus servant who has other plans herself.

My Favorite In This Series

"Five Run Away Together" was my favorite in Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" series, which I first read in the 1950s. How I envied George, Julian, Dick and Anne for their adventures! They were always pretty much adult-free, with lots of delicious meals and, best of all, Timmy the Dog. Julian sometimes got off a smart remark at an adult, and George wore boy's clothes. I'm pretty sure the thrill-factor of all these things would be lost on today's kids, unfortunately. What won't be lost on them is the singular excitement of running away to George's very own island, the mysterious wreck which has been cast up on the rocks at Kirrin Island, the secret cave where the children hide and set up housekeeping, and the way they (yet again) outsmart the Bad Guys. Highly recommended.

The Famous Five!

The Famous Five is perhaps my favorite children's adventure series! Enid Blyton was a remarkably talented author, and this series goes to prove it. The Famous Five books tell the tales of George (Georgina), her cousins Julian, Dick, Anne, and her dog, Timothy, and the many adventures that they simply seem to fall into. Five Run Away Together ties for my all-time favorite Famous Five book. In it, the children are back at George's home of Kirrin Cottage. Joanna the cook has fallen ill and in her place, George's mother has hired Mrs. Stick, a very unpleasant character, who brings along her husband, son, and pest of a dog. Aunt Fanny soon falls ill and she and her husband rush off to the hospital, leaving the children under the rule of the Sticks. Life becomes unbearable and they make their escape to their very own place, Kirrin Island. Glorious meals are had (and they always make my mouth water), a cave is discovered, and much bathing takes place. However, the children's good time is spoilt when they discover that someone is trespassing on their island! Everything seems to point to smugglers when a cry is heard one dark night... If you haven't read the Famous Five before, and it sounds like it may be to your liking, read one of the books already!

Thee Best

Five run away together is fabulous! My friends told me it was the best book they had read in the famous five series but i liked Five fall into adventure the most! You simply must read it!!! Someone has been on George's island! The guys discover a locked trunk on a ship wreck and find the strangest thing in their. Just when they think smugglers are to blame a chilling scream throws them of the scent. Get this book and find out more!!!