how did the adventurous 4 first meet?
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This is a cracker of a book, and one I remembered bits of for years after reading it as a kid. The 'four' aren't really 'adventurous' in the sense of the Famous Five et al – this is the first book about them and they don't think about adventures once, not even in the "Well, we certainly won't have an adventure in this quiet Welsh valley!" tradition of the Secret and Adventure series. The poor kids are only trying to have a holiday...
Two boys and two girls again – this time siblings Tom, who is twelve, and his ten year old twin sisters Jill and Mary team up with fourteen-year old local fisherboy Andy whom they meet while on holiday in Scotland. "There is a great island some hours away from here," Andy tells the children at the start of the book, "and my father has given me permission to take the fishing boat for the weekend to take you all there!" Hurrah!
The usual Blytonesque preparations follow, with the children combining dancing around excitedly with packing rugs, warm clothes at the insistence of Mother, and of course lots and lots of food. They meet Andy at half-past six on the Friday morning, intending to get to Little Island by mid afternoon and stay there until Sunday. But at first Andy says he thinks they should not go. There is a storm brewing and he is sure that if his father were there (Pops has been conveniently shunted off in another Blytonesque plot device), he would forbid the children from going. What nonsense, the three others say, so off they go.