The Vally Of Adventure
(Enid Blyton)
Enid Blyton?s The Valley of AdventureThis book, written in 1947, describes an Adventure by escaped Nazi adventurers who had escaped to South America and now wanted to collect hidden war loot in Austria and ship it back to South America. The third of Enid Blyton?s eight books in the Adventure series, it continues the adventures of Jack, Lucy-Ann, Philip and Dinah and Jack?s parrot, Kiki. Personally, as an adult, I found the parrot overdone and tiring, but I remember as a child that it was high comedy. One thing, though, that I appreciated as a child and still do: all four main characters are different from each other, whereas, even in adult detective fiction, usually only one, or at most two, characters, are developed. The rest just pass by and on. Finally, Enid Blyton?s books are excellent children?s fiction-squeaky clean, no bad language and no innuendo, yet-at least this series-suspenseful enough to hold interest. I remember this series as being, during my childhood, more interesting than the Five Finder-outers or Famous Five. After I got to the States for furlough during sixth grade and saw the Hardy Boys books, I quickly picked up the same plot line, rarely and only slightly varied, in book after book. (For that matter, the same thing was true of my sister?s Grace Livingston Hill romances, which I tried a few of. Yawn. If I can build up the motivation and energy, I?ll review one some day. But, for adventure, Alistair MacLean and Enid Blyton did it better.
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