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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
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Subject: Re: Query regarding author.
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:59:56 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 18 01:59:56 1985
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>I think I read books by an author named "Enid Blayton" (or Blyton) when
>I was a kid.  One of the titles that comes to mind is "Tuppenny, Fifo &
>Jinks" (It was a tale with fairies and witches and gnomes and goblins ...).
>The author also wrote some juvenile mysteries with kids as detectives
>(the Secret Seven series, the Famous Five series etc).  I may be confusing
>two authors here, but I do not think I am.  The author is probably British.
>Does any of the above ring a bell, or is my mind going?
>
> Yogesh Gupta                           Advanced Systems Group,
> {sdcrdcf, sdcsvax}!bmcg!asgb!gupta     Burroughs Corp., Boulder, CO.

	I'm not sure if you're mixing two authors or not. I am not familiar
with any of the books you mention above, but I am familiar with Enid Blyton, a
British author of books for children and young people. When I was a child, I
read a long series of adventure books by her, all titled THE [something] OF
ADVENTURE (eg, THE ISLAND OF ADVENTURE, THE CASTLE OF ADVENTURE, etc.).
All featured the same four children getting into various scrapes with spies,
smugglers, etc. I recall that one of the boys had a marvelous parrot named
Kiki, who accompanied the children everywhere and was the most interesting
character in the books. At least one of the books was made into a movie, but I
don't know which one.
	Does any of this sound familiar?

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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