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larryhammerPlease rec me some Enid Blynton.
I’ve greatly enjoyed any number of school stories by Angela Brazil as well as three dozen of Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School series, and am digging with delight into the first couple volumes of Oxenham’s Abbey Girls series—all of which I found both better written and more engaging than the first Mallory Towers book, which I DNF’d halfway through. What other Blynton should I try? Or should I look elsewhere to scratch that (boarding) school story itch?
(Yes, there’s Stalky & Co., but that scratches a different itch, much the same one as Kim, plus is only one book. Yes, there’s also the Crater School series, which is quite enjoyable and which may also do in a pinch, but it’s not quite the same.)
---L.
Subject quote from The Carpet Crawlers, Genesis.
I’ve greatly enjoyed any number of school stories by Angela Brazil as well as three dozen of Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School series, and am digging with delight into the first couple volumes of Oxenham’s Abbey Girls series—all of which I found both better written and more engaging than the first Mallory Towers book, which I DNF’d halfway through. What other Blynton should I try? Or should I look elsewhere to scratch that (boarding) school story itch?
(Yes, there’s Stalky & Co., but that scratches a different itch, much the same one as Kim, plus is only one book. Yes, there’s also the Crater School series, which is quite enjoyable and which may also do in a pinch, but it’s not quite the same.)
---L.
Subject quote from The Carpet Crawlers, Genesis.