Complete with the original full-colour pictorial dust jacket, which is somewhat sunned at the spine and has some small chips at the head. Also at Mr Roy’s he has a grey squirrel in one pocket as well as a baby hedgehog and large snail in the other. Of course, after a while you find out it's just Kiki the parrot, sitting on a branch above, but by then I think a reader would be suitably drawn in.

So I will start with an overview of the story as told in the film, noting particularly where it deviates from the book.Corners/edges rubbed, light readers creases to spine, pages slightly browned, no writing or scribble, else in Very Good Condition. But when Micky, Philip's new monkey, breaks his birthday present, all the children are plunged into an exciting quest to find the lost treasure of the Andra with some ruthless villains hot on their trail. Original green cloth with title on spine, colored frontispiece printed on glossy paper, and many illustrations throughout the text. Born in London in 1897, Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and loved dogs, gardening and the countryside. She has the same red hair, green eyes, and freckles as her older brother, who she absolutely adores and can't be without for a minute.

From what I can gather from my Bookstagram friends on the other side of the pond, Enid Blyton, although known worldwide, never quite made it across the Atlantic, and I have no idea why, but honestly, I would urge you to introduce yourselves and your children to this amazing author. a] Her most noticeable trait is her enormous repertoire of command phrases and peculiar noises, which she seems to pick up very easily.It could be argued, probably correctly, that the more authentic and mature thing to have done would have been to have left Joe as Jo-jo, left him as black, and left him as the villain, but simply de-fetishised and modernised his depiction. Earlier Dinah said I like him, about Bill in an almost dreamy teenage romance kind of way, but now, in response to Philip’s teasing that she has a crush on Bill she says he’s the kid of person she’d like to have as a father.