Blimey! It has been
such a long, long time since the last time I read any of the Famous
Five Series. I read that (translated into Bahasa Indonesia) long
before Sherlock Holmes. My mother recommended it to me. I found one
in a book rental and read it eagerly. Perhaps Enid Blyton's Famous
Five was the thing that made me such a lover of adventures and
mysteries tales, rather than romance, for example.
Enough of that. Now to
the book itself. Five on a Treasure Island
is the first novel of the series. It tells us about the adventure of the
siblings Julian, Dick, and Anne, together with their cousin George
and her dog Tim on an island called Kirrin – an ordinary island
with rabbits and ruins. That was before they found the map to a
treasure somewhere underground.
I
admire Enid Blyton for her grand imagination, her ideas of countless
tales and adventures and her ability of putting those into simple
words – so simple that even children could understand it. As you go
from page to page, you find yourself stolen into the book itself. The
pace of the events doesn't give room to any boredom and you can
finish the book in just one go.
I
read this book for the first time before I was 10 (I'm not quite
sure, but when I was 12 or 13 I started Sherlock Holmes so it must be
some years before that). I think kids from 8 y.o or 9 y.o may read it
for fun. It's easy, and the story brings new, exciting, and good
experience to young minds.
I love Famous Five too, my first books already ruined 'coz too many 'hands' read it (me and my brothers), nowdays I still amaze and loving it when read it again and again (specially when I need some refreshment after reading a 'heavy-books' :D) thx for joining this event
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