Listened to in audio format.

I loved Enid Blyton as a child and I remember reading the Secret Seven and the Five Findouters with fondness.

The St Clare's Series is based around twins Pat and Isobel O'Sullivan and their friends.  I love these books they are so innocent, with the girls enjoying midnight feasts and playing tricks on Mamzelle the French teacher.

The new term begins with some new characters.   Claudine, Mamzelle's niece, Eileen whose mother is matron and Right Hon Angela.  Claudine is a great addition to the series, although she  is Mamzelle's niece she shamelessly copies other girls work and is not above being naughty to get out of games.  When the girls have a midnight feast and matron discovers them Claudine locks her in a cupboard.   Maybe the books are not so innocent after all, more like a inner city comprehensive.

I appreciate these books are old fashioned, from another century in fact, but the stories are just as relevant today.  I highly recommend Enid Blyton to all young bookworms.

This was my first ever novel - I had the version that had a few pictures throughout it.
It was given to me on my fifth birthday by my granma and I loved it - it got me started on all of the old style mystery books (Famous Five, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden and a few Hardy Boys books) and the rest of the Enid Blyton books.

I've had this book for more than fifteen years in my bookcase now; I bought this when I was a child, for English reading program at my school back then. However, sometimes I'd reread it again if I wanted some classic light reading. As an adult, reading the book makes you remember the thoughts and imaginations that you may have thought; toys that live during the night after we go to our bed, goblins in the ancient times, giants and pixies. Each stories weren't too long and yet memorable, and the fonts were large enough so the book would not look like 'too long and boring' to kids in 3rd grade and above that wanted to grow an interest in reading.