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Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)

Enid Blyton

Paperback | Pages: 266 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 14505 Users | 293 Reviews

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Title	:	Five Go to Smuggler's Top (The Famous Five #4)
Author	:	Enid Blyton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 266 pages
Published	:	2001 by Hodder Children's Books (first published 1945)
Categories	:	Childrens. Adventure. Mystery. Fiction

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In this one the children are evicted from Kirrin Cottage (3 of them just visiting anyway) by a falling tree and Uncle Quentin packs them off to stay with a fellow scientist who (because in Blyton's imagination all scientists are rich (with the sole exception of Quentin himself in book 1 ... until all the gold) lives in a huge house riddled with secret tunnels that lead into a wide cave system.) Caves and tunnels are a staple of this series. Few, if any, of the 23 books don't go underground or through the walls at some point. Now Uncle Quentin, who in book one was writing formulas in his secret books and brewing stuff in test tubes, seems to have morphed into a civil engineer and is collaborating with their new host, Mr Lenoir, to drain the swamp, in a literal rather than Trumpian, sense. The original conflict is over the taking of Timmy. Mr Lenoir hates dogs. This is generally an unfailing indicator of villainy! The wider conflict concerns the local smuggler who uses the marshes, and rather unbelievably ends up kidnapping Uncle Quentin in some implausible plan to thwart the draining by buying then burning his plans, thus stopping ... the swamp ... from being drained? Also, the smuggler is very rich and only smuggles for fun. The central lesson of this book is that if you see a light out in the dark, then someone is up to no good. Generally smuggling. The conflict that I recall strongly from my reading as a child was between the Five and the deaf manservant Block who they suspect might be able to hear, and who is out to expose Timmy who has been hiding in the house's secret passages in order that Mr Lenoir not know he was in the house. Not one of my favourites in the series. A bit insipid. As a footnote: Enid seems to have a fascination with deafness. Block pretends / or doesn't to be deaf in this book. A girl in Malory Towers fakes deafness to general hilarity. The mainstay of the humour in the Faraway Trilogy is the Saucepan Man's hardness of hearing and failure to understand. Join my 3-emails-a-year newsletter #prizes ..

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Original Title:	Five Go to Smuggler's Top
ISBN:	0340796189 (ISBN13: 9780340796184)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Famous Five #4, Fünf Freunde Hörspiele #19
Characters:	George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Timmy, Anne (Famous Five), Julian (Famous Five)

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Ratings: 4.06 From 14505 Users | 293 Reviews

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The setting of the novel is what sets this book apart from most of the others in the Famous Five series, I feel. Not a countryside, and that's one of the reasons that I liked it. Another reason was the character of Sooty. It was not so difficult to guess the villain but was still quite enjoyable.

Four children and their dog have gone to stay with their Uncles friend, only to discover mysterious goings on during their stay. A flashing light in the middle of the night leads them on an adventure to pursue a group of smugglers in the area, an adventure which deepens with the disappearances of their Uncle and their close friend. With unsuspecting twists, the children investigate the goings on and get to the bottom of this thrilling encounter.The highlights of this book was the unexpected

Smugglers, trusting parents, tunnels, baddies with appropriate names such as Block this is what childhood is all about. For an adult this is hardly demanding reading; but it does bring back happy childhood memories of the picnics we ate (an awful lot of hard-boiled eggs which nowadays might be viewed as a cholesterol risk!) and the games of adventure and tremendous imagination we used to play outdoors after reading books such as those in the Famous Five series. I dont care how good

Smuggler's Top was the first book that i had read of Famous Five series which led me to search and scourge and acquire the entire collection!I had loved the book a lot. I still remember the characters quite perfectly. A gripping Plot, super suspense and witty Kids made sure i spent the best summer vacation getting engrossed in them throughout the day!This possibly was the very first of the Novel's that i had read and fuelled in bringing more to my library!

"Five go to smuggler's top" was actually one of the last Five books I read, even though it is number 4 in the series. It was hard to find a copy originally, and I had to make do with a more modern publication than some of the others I own.What starts off as a lovely easter holidays at Kirrin soon turns into adventure, with a large tree hitting the house making it impossible for the children to stay there. They are packed off to stay with a friend of Uncle Quentin's, and his son, a boy Julian and

This was a dramatized audiobook, short and enjoyable, even for an adult - or at least an immature one, as in my case. As a kid, I would've loved it. Lots of unsupervised adventure - what kid doesn't like that?

In this one the children are evicted from Kirrin Cottage (3 of them just visiting anyway) by a falling tree and Uncle Quentin packs them off to stay with a fellow scientist who (because in Blyton's imagination all scientists are rich (with the sole exception of Quentin himself in book 1 ... until all the gold) lives in a huge house riddled with secret tunnels that lead into a wide cave system.) Caves and tunnels are a staple of this series. Few, if any, of the 23 books don't go underground or