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Malory Towers, a Wise Children production (2019)

Starring: Izuka Hoyle (Darrell Rivers), Rose Shalloo (Mary Lou Askinson), Renee Lamb (Alicia Johns), Rebecca Collingwood (Gwendoline Lacey), Francesca Mills (Sally Hope), Vinnie Heaven (Bill Robinson) and, in this performance, Stephanie Hockley (Irene Dupont)
Adapted and directed by: Emma Rice.


This musical adaptation is to be found these summer holidays in ( Read more... )

There was a time when I read Enid Blyton books. More than that, I had Opinions - the Famous Five were better than the Secret Seven and I'd have much rather been to Malory Towers (St Clare's might have got two head girls, but we never read about their being two head girls, thus making it not as good). And then, despite what some would say given the fondness for girls own books in this lj, I grew up and there was a cull of my Blyton books. I sort of wish I'd kept The Naughtiest Girl series, but I don't think I did. In fact, I rather think that what books I did keep were a random selection and that there was more of slipping through the cracks than intent in the process. Anyhow, Blyton has been someone I've read about more than read for donkey's years, but over the past twenty-four hours (interspersed by sleep, work and grocery shopping), I read (for the first time, I think. It may not have survived a cull as much as been something I absent-mindedly bought after it.)

The Family at Red-Roofs: Enid Blyton. Armada, reprinted 1968

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Edited for typos on 8/1/11.

French page dedicated to Eric Leyland. It states that Leyland was a friend of Captain W. Johns - author of the Biggles books - and also wrote under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Tarrant (I didn't know this, I have one of 'her' books!). There's a full looking bibiliography - though they warn that it isn't necessarily complete, due to the numerous pseuds that he used - with pictures of covers. This suggests that there is a series of Stanton's books (I wonder if they are about Statnon's in its incarnation before 'Stanton's comes of Age' or after?
This would suggest that it's after.)

Details on the casting for the new Ballet Shoes adaptation. ( My reaction. ) Also, I really need to reread the book.

The Fossil Cupboard - a message board to discuss Streatfeild's books.

And for Ransome fans, on lj, there's ransomefans. (I saw a Swallows and Amazons mug of the classic cover, which I had a bit of a struggle over, but couldn't justify buying it right now, 15 % opening weekend discount or no. This was at the new Borders.

P'raps I can engineer a mug-related accident...

Wikipedia offers this list of fictional works invented by EBD (it hurts me a little that they are not chronologically ordered).

astralis on new girls, honour and girls who don't fit in in girls school stories.

News of two Famous Five productions. Am I the only one who sees the major flaw in looking at the characters' lives decades later? ( Read more... ). Fan Lucy Mangan weighs in on the subject.

The Series Fic yahoo group - dedicated to exploring British children's series fiction of the 20th and 21st century.