At the end of The Ship of Adventure, Bill "proposed" to Mrs Mannering. Now, Bill and Allie Cunningham take the children off on holiday together to a cottage in Little Brockleton, somewhere in the middle of the country. But Bill has to bring along another boy—a strange, foreign boy by the name of Gustavus Barmilevo, or Gus as they all decide to call him. Apparently he's the nephew of one of Bill's friends. Gus is not very likeable; he cries when he cuts his finger ("My finger, it blids") and absolutely hates the "wicket" Kiki, demanding that the parrot be put in a cage during his stay with the others. Naturally the other children refuse to stand for this, and they tease the boy about his girlish hair and other things, which leads to more tears! Why oh why did Bill have to bring this awful child along with them? The answer to this little mystery is revealed fairly early on, when Philip gets cross and tells Gus that he's not some kind of prince that can order people about. Gus stands up and announces that actually he is—the Prince Aloysius Gramondie Racemolie Torquinel of Tauri-Hessia! Astonished, the children listen as Bill and Allie reveal that the boy is being hidden away because there is unrest in the country of Tauri-Hessia, and the King's life is in danger.

What will happen when Bill and Allie Cunningham take the children off on holiday together to a cottage in Little Brockleton,? somewhere in the middle of the country. But Bill has to bring along another boy—a strange, foreign boy by the name of Gustavus Barmilevo, or Gus as they all decide to call him. Apparently he's the nephew of one of Bill's friends. Gus is not very likeable; he cries when he cuts his finger ("My finger, it blids") and absolutely hates the "wicket" Kiki, demanding that the parrot be put in a cage during his stay with the others. Naturally the other children refuse to stand for this, and they tease the boy about his girlish hair and other things, which leads to more tears! Why oh why did Bill have to bring this awful child along with them? The answer to this little mystery is revealed fairly early on, when Philip gets cross and tells Gus that he's not some kind of prince that can order people about. Gus stands up and announces that actually he is—the Prince Aloysius Gramondie Racemolie Torquinel of Tauri-Hessia! Astonished, the children listen as Bill and Allie reveal that the boy is being hidden away because there is unrest in the country of Tauri-Hessia, and the King's life is in danger. With a plot that involves a make-believe Prince from a make-believe land, I had reservations about it. I never thought much of the whole Prince Bongawah from Tetarua State thing in The Mystery of the Vanished Prince with the Five Find-Outers (although the story itself was very good). He too wore very colorful and silky clothes. Perhaps Tetarua State is part of Tauri-Hessia? It would be funny to have Prince Bongawah turn up in both the Find-Outers story and The Circus of Adventure—I mean, both princes are virtually the same except for the name! Anyway, that said, I think this book is the fourth best overall after Valley, Island and Castle (not counting River, which I've yet to read). It's hard to place it above Ship, because I really enjoyed the cruise ship setting and the scene where they're trying to figure out how to translate the treasure map...but Ship was let down by lame baddies and a horribly contrived bit in the middle. Circus doesn't seem to suffer from the usual lame "nasty" baddies. Just for a change, they're polite and respectful to their captives, and wish them no harm (except for killing the King!). They come across as firm but forceful, and it seems there are so many of them in the background you really get the impression we're dealing with an organization akin to the Secret Service. They move in, take prisoners, and move out again. At first I was doubtful when the foreign "couple" arrive at the little holiday location that Bill, Allie, and the children were staying at; I thought this subterfuge was going to be dragged out. But it wasn't. As soon as they were sure the Prince was being hidden away at the cottage, they moved in and kidnapped him—along with Bill, Allie, Philip, Dinah, and Lucy-Ann. Jack was out bird-watching at the time, so he managed to avoid capture. Jack really is the hero in this story. With Bill and Allie bundled away somewhere, and the children (including Gus) stuffed in the back of a car, Jack bravely throws himself into the boot and goes with them. When they arrive at an airfield, Jack smuggles himself aboard the plane just like Philip did in The Valley of Adventure. After the plane lands and the children are whisked away, Jack is all alone in a dusty foreign country where Goon-like policemen wear colorful uniforms and roads are nothing but dirt tracks. A stranger, seeing Kiki on Jack's shoulder, points him in the direction of a nearby travelling circus—and a helpful boy named Pedro takes him in. The obvious place to store prisoners (especially royal ones) is the castle at Borken. So Jack sets out one night to break in, and Blyton excels herself in detailing his adventure through dark winding passages and steep staircases, all the way to the point where he finally finds his sister and friends. But the room is locked, and there is no key! They can only speak through the keyhole. Jack will have to come back another time with a plan to get them out. And what a plan it is! Toni and Bingo, the trapeze artists from the circus, conjur up a daring plan to rescue the children from the castle tower. This reminds me of Five Have A Wonderful Time, where similar circus folk are employed to assist in their adventure. From the moment the children land in Tauri-Hessia and the point of view switches to Jack, we hear nothing more about Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Gus except via second-hand local knowledge. This is unusual for Enid Blyton, who never strays too long from one character or another. Normally she flits back and forth and explains what is happening to each, but here she quite rightly stays with Jack alone—as he's the one with the adventure to tell. His acceptance into the circus, his venture into the castle late at night, his idea to get Pedro and the circu

The sixth book in Enid Blyton's adventure series, The Ship of Adventure, was to have been the last, but now because the author got so much mail asking for another, here's the seventh. The familiar English family- Philip, Jack, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Mrs. Mannering, now Mrs. Cunningham because she married the children's friend Bill, rollick vigorously through another of their fantastic adventures. It starts with the arrival of an Easter holiday guest, an eleven year old foreign boy named Gussie. Gussie's irritability and conceit pose problems but his mysterious background also leads to excitement. He's the prince of Tauri-Hessie, a turbulent country whose wicked spies capture him and start a chain of events that involves Philip's joining a Europe bound circus, incarceration in a castle, the final recognition of Gussie as rightful heir to the Tauri-Hessian throne. There's an established market here but in previous reports we've called these books fantasy of the ready-made, comic book genre and still reserve the opinion.At the end of The Ship of Adventure, Bill "proposed" to Mrs Mannering. Now, Bill and Allie Cunningham take the children off on holiday together to a cottage in Little Brockleton, somewhere in the middle of the country. But Bill has to bring along another boy – a strange, foreign boy by the name of Gustavus Barmilevo, or Gus as they all decide to call him. Apparently he's the nephew of one of Bill's friends. Gus is not very likeable; he cries when he cuts his finger ("My finger, it blids") and absolutely hates the "wicket" Kiki, demanding that the parrot be put in a cage during his stay with the others. Naturally the other children refuse to stand for this, and they tease the boy about his girlish hair and other things, which leads to more tears! Why oh why did Bill have to bring this awful child along with them? The answer to this little mystery is revealed fairly early on, when Philip gets cross and tells Gus that he's not some kind of prince that can order people about. Gus stands up and announces that actually he is – the Prince Aloysius Gramondie Racemolie Torquinel of Tauri-Hessia! Astonished, the children listen as Bill and Allie reveal that the boy is being hidden away because there is unrest in the country of Tauri-Hessia, and the King's life is in danger. With a plot that involves a make-believe Prince from a make-believe land, I had reservations about it. I never thought much of the whole Prince Bongawah from Tetarua State thing in The Mystery of the Vanished Prince with the Five Find-Outers (although the story itself was very good). He too wore very colorful and silky clothes. Perhaps Tetarua State is part of Tauri-Hessia? It would be funny to have Prince Bongawah turn up in both the Find-Outers story and The Circus of Adventure – I mean, both princes are virtually the same except for the name! Anyway, that said, I think this book is the fourth best overall after Valley, Island and Castle (not counting River, which I've yet to read). It's hard to place it above Ship, because I really enjoyed the cruise ship setting and the scene where they're trying to figure out how to translate the treasure map... but Ship was let down by lame baddies and a horribly contrived bit in the middle. Circus doesn't seem to suffer from the usual lame "nasty" baddies. Just for a change, they're polite and respectful to their captives, and wish them no harm (except for killing the King!). They come across as firm but forceful, and it seems there are so many of them in the background you really get the impression we're dealing with an organization akin to the Secret Service. They move in, take prisoners, and move out again. At first I was doubtful when the foreign "couple" arrive at the little holiday location that Bill, Allie, and the children were staying at; I thought this subterfuge was going to be dragged out. But it wasn't. As soon as they were sure the Prince was being hidden away at the cottage, they moved in and kidnapped him – along with Bill, Allie, Philip, Dinah, and Lucy-Ann. Jack was out bird-watching at the time, so he managed to avoid capture. Jack really is the hero in this story. With Bill and Allie bundled away somewhere, and the children (including Gus) stuffed in the back of a car, Jack bravely throws himself into the boot and goes with them. When they arrive at an airfield, Jack smuggles himself aboard the plane just like Philip did in The Valley of Adventure. After the plane lands and the children are whisked away, Jack is all alone in a dusty foreign country where Goon-like policemen wear colorful uniforms and roads are nothing but dirt tracks. A stranger, seeing Kiki on Jack's shoulder, points him in the direction of a nearby travelling circus – and a helpful boy named Pedro takes him in. The obvious place to store prisoners (especially royal ones) is the castle at Borken. So Jack sets out one night to break in, and Blyton excels herself in detailing his adventure through

It is a wonderful book by Enid Blyton. At the end of The Ship of Adventure, Bill "proposed" to Mrs Mannering. Now, Bill and Allie Cunningham take the children off on holiday together to a cottage in Little Brockleton, somewhere in the middle of the country. But Bill has to bring along another boy—a strange, foreign boy by the name of Gustavus Barmilevo, or Gus as they all decide to call him. Apparently he's the nephew of one of Bill's friends. Gus is not very likeable; he cries when he cuts his finger ("My finger, it blids") and absolutely hates the "wicket" Kiki, demanding that the parrot be put in a cage during his stay with the others. Naturally the other children refuse to stand for this, and they tease the boy about his girlish hair and other things, which leads to more tears! Why oh why did Bill have to bring this awful child along with them? The answer to this little mystery is revealed fairly early on, when Philip gets cross and tells Gus that he's not some kind of prince that can order people about. Gus stands up and announces that actually he is—the Prince Aloysius Gramondie Racemolie Torquinel of Tauri-Hessia! Astonished, the children listen as Bill and Allie reveal that the boy is being hidden away because there is unrest in the country of Tauri-Hessia, and the King's life is in danger.It was really an awesome book.I enjoed reading this book.I would reccomend this book to my friends.I loved this book...

The sixth book in Enid Blyton's adventure series, The Ship of Adventure, was to have been the last, but now because the author got so much mail asking for another, here's the seventh. The familiar English family- Philip, Jack, Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Mrs. Mannering, now Mrs. Cunningham because she married the children's friend Bill, rollick vigorously through another of their fantastic adventures. It starts with the arrival of an Easter holiday guest, an eleven year old foreign boy named Gussie. Gussie's irritability and conceit pose problems but his mysterious background also leads to excitement. He's the prince of Tauri-Hessie, a turbulent country whose wicked spies capture him and start a chain of events that involves Philip's joining a Europe bound circus, incarceration in a castle, the final recognition of Gussie as rightful heir to the Tauri-Hessian throne. There's an established market here but in previous reports we've called these books fantasy of the ready-made, comic book genre and still reserve the opinion.At the end of The Ship of Adventure, Bill "proposed" to Mrs Mannering. Now, Bill and Allie Cunningham take the children off on holiday together to a cottage in Little Brockleton, somewhere in the middle of the country. But Bill has to bring along another boy – a strange, foreign boy by the name of Gustavus Barmilevo, or Gus as they all decide to call him. Apparently he's the nephew of one of Bill's friends. Gus is not very likeable; he cries when he cuts his finger ("My finger, it blids") and absolutely hates the "wicket" Kiki, demanding that the parrot be put in a cage during his stay with the others. Naturally the other children refuse to stand for this, and they tease the boy about his girlish hair and other things, which leads to more tears! Why oh why did Bill have to bring this awful child along with them? The answer to this little mystery is revealed fairly early on, when Philip gets cross and tells Gus that he's not some kind of prince that can order people about. Gus stands up and announces that actually he is – the Prince Aloysius Gramondie Racemolie Torquinel of Tauri-Hessia! Astonished, the children listen as Bill and Allie reveal that the boy is being hidden away because there is unrest in the country of Tauri-Hessia, and the King's life is in danger. With a plot that involves a make-believe Prince from a make-believe land, I had reservations about it. I never thought much of the whole Prince Bongawah from Tetarua State thing in The Mystery of the Vanished Prince with the Five Find-Outers (although the story itself was very good). He too wore very colorful and silky clothes. Perhaps Tetarua State is part of Tauri-Hessia? It would be funny to have Prince Bongawah turn up in both the Find-Outers story and The Circus of Adventure – I mean, both princes are virtually the same except for the name! Anyway, that said, I think this book is the fourth best overall after Valley, Island and Castle (not counting River, which I've yet to read). It's hard to place it above Ship, because I really enjoyed the cruise ship setting and the scene where they're trying to figure out how to translate the treasure map... but Ship was let down by lame baddies and a horribly contrived bit in the middle. Circus doesn't seem to suffer from the usual lame "nasty" baddies. Just for a change, they're polite and respectful to their captives, and wish them no harm (except for killing the King!). They come across as firm but forceful, and it seems there are so many of them in the background you really get the impression we're dealing with an organization akin to the Secret Service. They move in, take prisoners, and move out again. At first I was doubtful when the foreign "couple" arrive at the little holiday location that Bill, Allie, and the children were staying at; I thought this subterfuge was going to be dragged out. But it wasn't. As soon as they were sure the Prince was being hidden away at the cottage, they moved in and kidnapped him – along with Bill, Allie, Philip, Dinah, and Lucy-Ann. Jack was out bird-watching at the time, so he managed to avoid capture. Jack really is the hero in this story. With Bill and Allie bundled away somewhere, and the children (including Gus) stuffed in the back of a car, Jack bravely throws himself into the boot and goes with them. When they arrive at an airfield, Jack smuggles himself aboard the plane just like Philip did in The Valley of Adventure. After the plane lands and the children are whisked away, Jack is all alone in a dusty foreign country where Goon-like policemen wear colorful uniforms and roads are nothing but dirt tracks. A stranger, seeing Kiki on Jack's shoulder, points him in the direction of a nearby travelling circus – and a helpful boy named Pedro takes him in. The obvious place to store prisoners (especially royal ones) is the castle at Borken. So Jack sets out one night to break in, and Blyton excels herself in detailing his adventure through.I loved this b

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