This is the second Enid Blyton I’ve read this year and this one, like the Adventurous Four, is a nostalgic throwback but with some things that have not aged well. The 1949 novel features a different set of four children than in Adventurous Four, but still follows the same pattern: unsupervised children ‘having an adventure’. These particular four children are two sets of siblings- Philip and his sister Dinah and Lucy-Ann and her brother Jack. The four are on a summer vacation in rural Wales, […]
Problematic nostalgia
The Mountain of Adventure by Enid Blyton




