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THE NAUGHTIEST GIRL ... AGAIN.

THE NAUGHTIEST GIRL ... AGAIN by Enid Blyton.

BACK COVER BLURB: The Naughtiest girl in the school is back! And this term she's trying to be good.

But someone wants to spoil things for her. And they're not going to let her forget how she got her nickname.

FIRST SENTENCE {1. BACK AT WHYTELEAFE}: Elizabeth was excited.

MEMORABLE RANDOM MOMENT* {PAGE 77}: Kathleen took out the book and opened it at the place where the work had been done. She dipped a pen in the ink - and then she made three large blots on the page by shaking hard.

SOURCE: Ex-library stock.

READ FOR: The 16th of 24 books read for the Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2017.

MY THOUGHTS: Given that my childhood had been spent reading, amongst many, many other books, The Faraway Tree series (in the days when Fanny was not yet Frannie, Dame Slap not yet Dame Snap) and, to a lesser extent, the Famous Five and Secret Seven books, I was rather surprised when I came across this book, the second of what I believe to be a series of four, that had obviously passed me by ... until now.

Arguably reading a book 'meant' for children as an adult is different to reading that book as a child and, yes, we may not feel the same magic we might once have felt but then many so-called children's books are loved no matter what the age of the reader. 

OK, so a story about friendship, of doing the right thing but ...

With concerns of the author's works being sexist, xenophobic, racist ... the list goes on ... going back to before I was reading the books in the early/mid-seventies. Set in a boarding school, it has nothing to do with the fact that this isn't Harry Potter and everything to do with the fact that, whilst I can't say I particularly picked up on any of these criticisms, I found the writing sloppy and unimaginative, the story terribly outdated (arguably not surprising given its original publication date of 1942), the characters unbearably pretentious. 

* Having tired of the post-it-notes marking my Memorable Moment (MM), I decided to go hi-tech (at least hi-tech for me) and make a note of my MM using the Notebook on my mobile phone. Alas too clever, I somehow or other managed to delete it hence, for the moment, my Random Moment. TT




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