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First Term at Malory Towers | 
 enlarge | Author: Enid Blyton
Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £4.99
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Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 2676
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1405224037
EAN: 9781405224031
ASIN: 1405224037
Publication Date: April 3, 2006
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fantastic, engrossing, wonderful! August 28, 2008
Catherine
My 6 year old daughter was given the Malory Towers series. I didn't remember them from my own childhood and wasn't greatly looking forward to reading them - I thought they would be ridiculously old fashioned and badly written. I was wrong. Of course some of the language is a bit dated (things are "wizard" rather than "cool") but my daughter adores the stories and the characters and it doesn't matter that she'd never come across the concept of a boarding school or a governess before. Blyton had a talent for writing engrossing page-turners and creating appealing characters. I have enjoyed reading them to my daughter and she's now enjoying reading them to herself. I would thoroughly recommend this series either as a bedtime story for girls from around reception to year 2 or for girls to read to themselves from around age 7.
Perfect for an 8 year old July 16, 2008
Helen Wood (New Jersey, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My 8 yr old daugher has just read this and loves it, especially the tricks they play.
My favourite blast from the past May 2, 2008
Boof (United Kingdom)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Ah, how much did I love these books when I was a kid? I so desperately wanted to be friends with Darrell Rivers et al and tip-toe down to the beach for midnight feasts with lashings and lashings of ginger beer!
I must have read the whole series at least 10 times, and I recently rediscovered them when I was off work sick for a few days - I curled up under my duvet with mugs of lemsip and lost myslef in the best boarding school in the world for a few days. I'm in my 30's now (well into them, but shhh!) and I could have been a 10 year old again, they made me feel carefree and happy.
The series follows Darrell Rivers and friends (Sally, Mary Lou etc) through their 5 years at boarding school on the Cornish coast and we meet and fall in love with an aray of fabuous characters along the way including spoilt, sulky Gwendoline, headstrong Alicia and tomboy Bobbie.
I just loved these books years ago and I still love them now. Whether you have never read any Mallory Towers or you grew up with them like me, then you are about to get a real treat by picking this book up. Enjoy!
Enid Blyton Rocks! January 31, 2008
CLW (Glasgow,Scotland, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Anyone who reads Enid Blyton books will be thoroughly impressed with her writing. I read as many of her books as I could get my hands on from age 8+, but even still it's wonderful to read them again after a hard day at work - remembering simpler times! Having been to a boarding school, it's not quite like Blyton writes - but I wish it had been! Great adventures, highly recommend it!
Loved these books when I was a child... December 22, 2007
Elise Turner
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I adored these books when I was a child, despite growing up in a council estate in west yorkshire and being as far removed from the girls heading off to boarding school as I could possibly be, I read every one in the series so many times my copies literally fell apart.
Even in the late seventies the language and references were somewhat old-fashioned, but a great story will always be just that and I was carried away by the characters and the great world of Malory Towers and wasn't put off in the slightest.
I have to say when reading Harry Potter and the Philoshophers Stone for the first time the thing I enjoyed particularly was the 'school story' element which reminded me of reading the Malory Towers series when I was a child. I'm hope todays kids will enjoy these books as much as I did when I was a youngster.
I would recommend these books for girls aged 8 - 11 and can't wait to share them with my daughters now they have been republished.
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