Enid Blyton's Third Form at St.Clare's - Enid Blyton > Reviews

Advantages: A good example of girls learning to live with One another.
Disadvantages: I hated the portrayal of the French Mistresses.

The St Clare's series is a good set of books in my view concerning the real life of boarding school & state school regarding the mix of abilities that you get in both places. Through out the series there are the wonderful mix of the average ordinary schoolgirl who is just normal whom people can still relate to as well as others who stand out for good & bad reasons. People who arrive & do not want to be stuck in some posh school like the Twins or ... Read review

Advantages: good for kids
Disadvantages: none that i can see

...set of School stories from Enid Blyton. There are six books in all The Twins at St Clares, The O'Sullivan Twins, Summer Term at St. Clares, Second Form at St Clares, Claudine at St Clares and Fifth Formers at St Clares. The first three books are about the First year at St. Clares when Pat and Isobel O' Sullivan join the school. The main Chracters of the books are The Twins, there Cousin Alison, Hilary, Janet and Doris and of course Mamselle and Miss ... Read review

Advantages: wonderful fun
Disadvantages: I want more!!

I firstread this book as a child and was delighted to find a trilogy edition of the Faraway books, a couple of years ago. It is centred round 3 children, who live near a magic wood, in which there grows the Faraway Tree! This tree has an assortment of Characters who live in it, and it’s branches reach up into the clouds where a different "land" arrives every week! It may be a nice land like the Land of Nursery Rhymes or a horrid land like the Land ... Read review

Advantages: good read
Disadvantages: bit snobby

...like about them is that Enid Blyton makes all the girls out to be weak and feeble, and any men to be the typical strong and hard image they had then. These books are ideal for children about 8-12, but really if anybody read them then i'm sure that they'd love them. ... Read review