Five on Kirrin Island again

The FAMOUS FIVE are Julian, Dick, George (Georgina by rights), Anne, and Timothy the dog.

Kirrin Island belonged to George: it was her very own, and she felt aggrieved when her father ‘borrowed’ it for one of his experiments. And to make matters worse, he built a mysterious tower in the ruins of the old castle.

The Five couldn’t really understand Uncle Quentin’s wish to be left quite alone, and as it turned out, it was a good thing that George took matters into her own hands one night — otherwise there would have been no more adventures on Kirrin Island, and Timmy would never again have been able to prove how intelligent he was.

This is the Five’s sixth adventure.

Enid Blyton

Five on Kirrin Island again

The Famous Five - 6

ePub r1.1

Titivillus 27.08.2020

Título original: Five on Kirrin Island again

Enid Blyton, 1947

Ilustraciones: Eileen Alice Soper

Diseño de cubierta: Eileen Alice Soper

Editor digital: Titivillus

ePub base r2.1

Chapter One

A letter for George

Anne was trying to do some of her prep. in a corner of the common-room when her cousin George came bursting in.

George was not a boy; she was a girl called Georgina, but because she had always wanted to be a boy she insisted on being called George. So George she was. She wore her curly hair cut short, and her bright blue eyes gleamed angrily now as she came towards Anne.

“Anne! I’ve just had a letter from home — and what do you think? Father wants to go and live on my island to do some special work — and he wants to build a sort of tower or something in the castle yard!”

The other girls looked up in amusement, and Anne held out her hand for the letter that George was waving at her. Everyone knew about the little island off Kirrin Bay that belonged to George. Kirrin Island was a tiny place with an old ruined castle in the middle of it: the home of rabbits and gulls and jackdaws.

It had underground dungeons in which George and her cousins had had one or two amazing adventures. It had once belonged to George’s mother, and she had given it to George — and George was very fierce where her precious Kirrin Island was concerned! It was hers. Nobody else must live there, or even land there without her permission.

And now, dear me, here was her father proposing to go to her island, and even build some sort of workshop there! George was red with exasperation.

“It’s just like grown-ups; they go and give you things and then act as though the things were theirs all the time. I don’t want Father living on my island, and building nasty messy sheds and things there.”

“Oh George — you know your father is a very famous scientist, who needs to work in peace,” said Anne, taking the letter. “Surely you can lend him your island for a bit?”