Enid Blyton’s The Secret Seven is a snowy mystery for 7 year olds about a club with a shed, a password and a very odd noise in the dark.<\/p>\n
Peter and his sister Janet run the Secret Seven. There are seven members, a meeting place at the bottom of the garden and a badge each with S.S. on it. Scamper the golden spaniel comes to the meetings too (he’s not officially a member).<\/p>\n
The trouble is they haven’t had a meeting for ages. It’s the Christmas holidays, the pond has frozen solid and several of them have forgotten the password.<\/p>\n
Then Jack loses his badge somewhere in a field full of snowmen. Peter has threatened to throw out anyone who keeps turning up without one. So Jack sneaks out after bedtime with a torch to find it.<\/p>\n
While he’s out there a car creeps down a lane that doesn’t go anywhere. It’s towing something big with no windows. Men climb out in the dark and Jack hears snorting, a strange high squeal and a struggle. Who wouldn’t run home as fast as their legs would go?<\/p>\n
At last the Seven have a real mystery and they’re SO excited about it. They split up to investigate. Two follow the tyre tracks, two find out who owns the empty old house, and three go and question its very grumpy caretaker (who’d quite like to whack Scamper with his big stick).<\/p>\n
It’s funny how seriously they take it all. Peter is super strict about badges. Colin bellows the password at the top of his voice. Janet copies down the tyre pattern in her notebook and Barbara laughs at her drawing.<\/p>\n
There are lots of cosy bits in between. Blackcurrant tea made from a pot of jam, oatmeal biscuits on a little shelf and a row of snowmen that look a bit too real by torchlight.<\/p>\n
It’s old-fashioned in the nicest way. Everything is “jolly” and “golly”, and the children are out in the snow with no grown-ups in sight. Jack’s night by the hedge is properly tense for a young reader though, with a stranger’s torch shining over the gate right by where he’s hiding.<\/p>\n
If your reader likes making up clubs and secret codes of their own, they’ll probably feel right at home in that shed.<\/p>\n
If this one goes down well, Peter, Janet and the rest are back with a new password in Secret Seven Adventure. This time a game in the fields takes a turn when a real stranger drops over a wall and hides in the very same bushes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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