Five Go to Billycock Hill

Famous Five Series

Author: Enid Blyton

Book 16 in the Famous Five series

Pages: 244

Published: 1957

Age: 7+

Hurrah! It's holiday time, and the Famous Five are spending it at Billycock Hill. Most exciting of all, they've made a new friend - a real pilot! But now he has disappeared, with top secret equipment... The Five are puzzled, and concerned, too. Could their new friend be a spy - a traitor? Whatever his motives are, the gang feel duty-bound to investigate...

About the Famous Five Series

Reading age: 7+ years

The Famous Five are a group of children who have the sort of adventures most kids dream about, in a world where ginger beer flows and ham rolls are a staple diet. Julian, Dick and Anne get together with their cousin, George in the first adventure, 'Five On A Treasure Island'. George is actually a girl who wants so desperately to be a boy she crops her hair and struts about doing boy things. She hates it when people call her by her correct name, Georgina. She has a dog called Timmy - oh yes, and an island. Most kids just have a dog, but George's parents own Kirrin Island and let her run around on it as if it were her play-thing. Her parents are known to Julian, Dick and Anne as Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny.