Christmas is the time for mad book buying in our house, the kids get a book as standard along with the gold coins, orange and candy canes in their stockings. Always have and I intend never to stop.
We buy books for each other for all occasions.
I have a love of reading that I have managed to instill into my children and they too have times where they can escape into a book.
Reading for me as a child was a means of escape from a boring day, a fantasy world rich with characters who sometimes I hated, sometimes I adored and mostly I wished I was really in the lives being played out.
One such book series was Enid Blyton's the Famous Five.
I wanted to be a bit like George but not quite as boyish. She always seemed braver than I was. Anne was pretty and blonde and kind and I liked her.
Julian in my mind was a heartthrob.
Tall strong and just.
I got bought each book as I finished one, I had the red hardback set which apparently are quite rare to buy.
"Oh Jeepers" as George would say! I should have kept them all.
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 cuts her hair and does tomboy things.
She hates it when people call her by her correct name, Georgina. She has a dog called Timmy who is loyal and true.
Most kids just have a dog, but George's parents own Kirrin Island and they let her run about on it getting up to all sorts of adventures. The first being a shipwreck and a search for treasure.
Her parents are known as Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny.
I have read these over and over to my children and I also read to my best friends boys as a treat each time they have stayed over.
Enid Blyton's books are still as exciting in the 21st century, I promise. The set of 10 books at Kids IQ are way more colourful looking still with the fab vintage illustrations.
You can still get this entralling series and you can find this set at Kids IQ Books for a marvellous price of £19.99
Also there is a set of Horrible Histories for £19.99, was £59.99, now I also recommend these books, history made interesting and yucky just how children love it.
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