When I was ten, my favourite book was... Guest Blog by CG Hatton
Smuggler’s Top by Enid Blyton
When I was ten, I loved the Famous Five. I loved exploring,
climbing across the rocks at the beach, making maps in the woods… I loved the
idea of secret passages in old buildings, hidden messages written in invisible
ink, spies lurking at every corner, and mystery and intrigue and adventure. (I
wanted my own pen knife but my dad wouldn’t get me one of those until I was 18
and setting off to study geology at uni!).
The reason I love Five Go To Smuggler’s Top in particular is
that the boy the Famous Five meet in this book is funny, mischievous, smart,
fearless, defiant… everything you need in a best friend in the middle of an
adventure.
There is a hint of danger, lots of secret passages, loads of
creeping around with torches in the dark, mystery upon mystery, and throughout
it all, a sense of camaraderie and adventure that I longed for as a child. If
you don’t have that in reality, where better to find it than in a book you can
pick up and read over and over again… and then maybe, hopefully, find for
yourself as you grow up and venture out into the world.
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