The Buttercup Farm Family

Family #5

by Enid Blyton

Mike, Belinda and Ann are delighted when Dad buys two caravans for them to live in. They become the Caravan Family, and how lucky are they – not only do they have wonderful homes, but they go on amazing holidays and see the world! In this story, they travel to Buttercup Farm.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1951

About the author

See also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)

Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.

Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.

Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.

According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.

See also her pen name Mary Pollock

Reviews

[Deity World · Rating 3 out of 5]

This author loves writing about farm life

[Dhwani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but cannot beat Famous Five and Secret Seven

[Graham · Rating 3 out of 5]

The fifth of Blyton's 'Family' series and it's a quick-written, fast read with a surprisingly few amount of pages. This time around the parents go off for a random six-month holiday to America, leaving the kids in the care of an uncle and aunt who run an idyllic rural farm. The story is a lesson in animal care with chickens and sheep getting the focus of the attention. There is very little in the way of complexity here, just a straightforward description of happy life on a working farm, so it feels more simplistic than some others in the series.

[K.L. · Rating 3 out of 5]

The kids live on their aunt and uncles farm while their parents are in America and they soon make friends with all the farmyard animals

[Lieselot Mauroo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really loved this one.
It was a lot of fun to read. Lovely writing.

[Ruvi Perera · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed this series as a kid and now rereading it.

[Premikka · Rating 1 out of 5]

Never read it if you are over 4 years old.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book used to read it over and over!

[Johara Almogbel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I s'pose I shouldn't have read these after the faraway tree and the wishing chair.

[Austin Ajit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its the story of a family who stays in a caravan and their kids going to spend the holidays in their uncles farm.Days in the farm house with animals are quite enjoyable