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Five on a Treasure Island
Enid Blyton · 1942 · 168 pages
The Famous Five are Julian, Dick, George (Georgina by rights), Anne, and Timothy the dog. This is the story of how the "Famous Five" came into being, and of their very first adventure together. And what an adventure it was--involving an island, a ruined castle, an ancient wreck--and a desperate treasure hunt!
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Alan Cumming
“I grew up reading the ‘Famous Five’ books, and recently I reread the first one and was shocked to realize it contains the first trans person I ever encountered, and also how much its almost fetishistic description of food had everything to do with the rationing that Britain was ensuring at the time. Lashings and lashings of ginger beer!”↗