Seven children, a garden shed, a badge and a password: Enid Blyton's Secret Seven run their detective society on those terms across all seventeen titles gathered in this box set.
Each volume hands the group a case to work through, and the formula rewards young readers with a structure they can anticipate while the mysteries themselves keep changing. Blyton, born in 1897, wrote prolifically for children and also created the Famous Five and Noddy, with sales running into the hundreds of millions. In 2008 the Costa Book Awards recognised her as Britain's best-loved author.
What you'll find in these pages:
• All seventeen Secret Seven titles in one collection
• A child-led detective club with its own rules and rituals
• Short chapters pitched at newly independent readers
• Stories that can be read in sequence or picked at random
Suited to young mystery readers and to families building a first chapter-book collection, available from Boipoka.