Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabs!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Query regarding author. Message-ID: <1092@ames.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:59:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.1092 Posted: Sun Aug 18 01:59:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:08:13 EDT References: <751@asgb.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 28 >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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ USENET: {ihnp4,vortex,dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames!barry