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Family #4
The Seaside Family
The Caravan Family are spending their summer in beautiful, sandy Sea-Gull Cove. They are staying in their caravans, right at the edge of the sea, and it promises to be the best holiday ever! But poor, miserable Benjy Johns is with them. Will he ruin the children's holiday, or can they cheer Benjy up and help him enjoy the sea and life in a caravan?
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1950
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Enid Blyton
5,138 books6,322 followersSee 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
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
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March 20, 2024
What a beautiful little story! I loved it... I read the first two books in this series as a child and recently discovered there are other books in the series too. Beautiful!
December 4, 2012
I prefer this book to the other I own in this series, 'The Pole Star Family'. In both books, not much happens over 96 pages, but this one has a little more story to it, if you know what I mean. Still not the greatest of Enid's books, but as I'm trying to read/reread her books at the moment I kept reading -shrug-
July 12, 2010
The power of prayer taught by Ann and the naughty boy promised not to be horrid to his mother.
October 20, 2014
Bullying is okay, as long as it's a little cute girl doing it.
September 26, 2021
The family take a young boy with them on holiday to the seaside, and they all learn a little about families and friendship
July 17, 2020
It’s the start of the school holidays and they’re off to Seagull Cove in a caravan. The perfect start to your summer holiday reading.
December 4, 2020
The fourth instalment of Blyton's "Family Series" of stories and this is an improvement over the last, THE POLE-STAR FAMILY. So far they've lived in caravans, gone on the canals and taken a cruise abroad, while this one simply sees them heading off to a beach holiday. The emphasis is on the usual sights and sounds and new experiences, building on what they've done previously, but conflict is added by the inclusion of an unhappy little boy in the mix which I found rather moving. It also gives Blyton the chance to look at the topics of religion and illness, which usually don't figure much in this kind of children's fiction.
October 20, 2024
This was my first novel that I ever read 🥹🥹
Ah such joys.
It had everything I really love. ( I wonder what came; first my live for the sea or reading my first novel about a sea side vacation). Caravan trip to the seaside. Eating fresh farm eggs. Still brings a smile to my face thinking about this book.
You never really forget your first. And THANK GOD my first was pretty perfect for me :)
Ah such joys.
It had everything I really love. ( I wonder what came; first my live for the sea or reading my first novel about a sea side vacation). Caravan trip to the seaside. Eating fresh farm eggs. Still brings a smile to my face thinking about this book.
You never really forget your first. And THANK GOD my first was pretty perfect for me :)
March 21, 2024
Good short seaside adventure
September 21, 2025
This was a great, fun read!
Loved the entire story. The characters are really lovely as well.
Loved the entire story. The characters are really lovely as well.
November 25, 2016
i really liked this book it was unique
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June 30, 2018Good
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