Enid Blyton every year in addition to many other novels, short stories and books. In 1946 Blyton launched the first in the Malory Towers series of six books based around the schoolgirl Darrell Rivers, "First Term at Malory Towers", which became extremely popular, particularly with girls. The first book in Blyton's Barney Mysteries series, "The Rockingdown Mystery", was published in 1949, as was the first of her fifteen Secret Seven novels. The Secret Seven Society consists of Peter, his sister Janet, and their friends Colin, George, Jack, Pam and Barbara, who meet regularly in a shed in the garden to discuss peculiar
Five on a Treasure Island Five on a Treasure Island Five on a Treasure Island (published in 1942) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the first book in "The Famous Five" series. The first edition of the book was illustrated by Eileen Soper. It has been suggested that the book was influenced by L. T. Meade's 1892 book "Four on an Island", which also recounts a story of four related children including a tomboy along with a dog living on an island with a shipwreck. When siblings Julian, Dick and Anne learn that they cannot go for their usual summer holiday