The Queen Elizabeth Family

Family #6

by Enid Blyton

Mike, Belinda and Ann can hardly contain their excitement. They are going to America on the Queen Elizabeth and will spend two whole weeks in New York! They have their most exciting adventures yet, exploring the decks of the enormous ship and experiencing the whirl, bustle and sheer size of life in America.

Genres: Childrens, Classics, Travel, Fiction, Family

93 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

[Rashu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read the sinhala translation of this ; " සයුරු තෙරේ සවාරිය"

[Deity World · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good finale to the series

[vias_bookland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Belinda, Ann and Mike are so excited to board the Queen Elizabeth with their mother and father but when they find out two week slater that they will be travelling to New York in it, they are so excited!
This book brings me back to when I just started reading - the magic faraway tree etc. I would recommend it to readers who enjoy Enid Blyton and it is also a light read which is difficult to place down, I read it I two sitting over two days! Because of the easiness to read, it would be easy for young confident readers, older less confident readers or anyone!

[Carolyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

First book I have read in this series with a 1951 setting, this one on the Queen Elizabeth ship and the family travel to the USA. The characters are all well defined as usual in Enid Blyton stories and moves at a nice pace. Interesting observations of an English family in New York, referring to large portions of food and the amount of sweets and treats available, as the UK would have just come out of rationing.
Intriguing social dynamics, will try to find the first five books in this series, which I was not aware of in my childhood.

[Jai Satrawada · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think that this story lacked a climax or problem. It was also obviously quite childish but other than that it was a pretty good book.

[Lieselot Mauroo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another very lovely story, very enchanting indeed.

[Graham · Rating 3 out of 5]

The last of Blyton's six-volume FAMILY series, and once more the continuing adventures of Mike, Belinda and Ann. The trio leave their caravans behind to head off for a cruise liner (then very much a new-fangled thing and the sense of awe at the sheer scale of the ship is impressive) which takes them on a trip to New York. There's very much a sense of travelogue here, with virtually no time for characterisation or plot development; just the endless sights and sounds of travelling on a ship, of the streets of New York, and of the quite prodigious amounts of food that these children manage to constantly consume.

[Kirsti · Rating 3 out of 5]

By far one of the worst Enid Blyton stories I've read. Really nothing happened, and it just served as a 'typical' view from the English about America. I always kind of wondered what beef Enid had with America, she's always more than a little disparaging. Anyway, moving on.

[K.L. · Rating 3 out of 5]

The family travel to America aboard the Queen Elizabeth. Some interesting takes on Americans😂