When I was growing up my earliest memory of reading is my Mum reading Enid Blyton’s Famous Five stories to me before bedtime. I must have only been 5 years old at the time but found the stories amazing!

For anyone who doesn’t know “The Famous Five” are a group of children who have the sort of adventures most kids dream about, in a world where ginger beer flows and ham rolls are a staple diet. Julian, Dick and Anne get together with their cousin George in the first adventure, Five On A Treasure Island.

George is actually a girl who wants so desperately to be a boy she crops her hair and struts about doing boy things. She hates it when people call her by her correct name, Georgina. She has a dog called Timmy—oh yes, and an island. Most kids just have a dog, but George’s parents own Kirrin Island and let her run around on it as if it were her play-thing. Her parents are known to Julian, Dick and Anne as Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny.

I think that these books are slowly being removed from society by the sands of time and I feel that they shouldn’t.

So if you have kids please check out Enid Bylton’s “The Famous Five”!