The Famous Five [4 Adventures] by Enid Blyton

She then joins in on the attempted rescue of the missing scientist Derek Terry-Kane, but then ends up helping rescuing the Five as well, after getting temporarily tied up herself. She appears again in Five Have a Wonderful Time, just in time to resolve a feud between the Five and some fair-folk some of whom she just so happens to be related to. In the end she does not return to her father as he is locked up for his part in the kidnap, instead she goes to stay with Joan’s cousin. She shows true bravery by the end of Five Fall Into Adventure, climbing an ivy-covered tower to swap places with George as they look quite alike. Dick is the only one Jo likes at first, and he is the only reason she helps them track down a kidnapped George – even though it was her who helped with the kidnapping by luring Timmy to eat drugged meat. At first they want nothing to do with such a dirty little urchin, but when Dick hits her and finds out she’s a girl he is impressed by her pluck.

The Five first meet Jo on Kirrin beach when she steals George’s sand hole to sit in. In order for me to count them as a sidekick the child must: have some sort of purpose within the story, take part in some or all of the adventure, be accepted however temporarily into the friendship group of the Five.Ī couple of sidekicks appeared more than once – Jo the gypsy girl and Tinker Hayling.Īppearances – Five Fall Into Adventure, Five Have a Wonderful Time and Five Have Plenty of Fun. I will look at the genuine sidekicks first, and perhaps revisit the topic for the hangers-on. Some are enemies like Edgar Stick, others are merely rescued by the Five, like Mary Armstrong of the same book. They met a lot of other children during the 21 adventures but not all of them are worthy of sidekick status. We all know about the main Famous Five cast, but what about the various friends that show up throughout the series? They never had any long-term sidekicks, no Robin, no Samwise Gamgee or Watson, but in several stories they had friends who tagged along and helped out (in the subservient sort of way that denotes them as sidekicks and not equals).

The Famous Five [4 Adventures] by Enid Blyton