The Adventure books were not quite as popular as The Famous Five series, and the books were a little longer. It is reported that they took approximately five days each to write - a phenomenal achievement in itself when one considers that most novelists normally average one book per year. In this series, the children are Jack, Lucy-Ann, Dinah and Philip, and the animal interest comes from Kiki, the parrot.

 

Stuart Tresilian, the illustrator of the Adventure books, illustrated amongst other works, Rudyard Kipling's Animal Stories (1932) and All the Mowgli Stories (1937), and Sir Vivian Fuchs' Antarctic Adventure (1959). He was President of The Society of Graphic Artists from 1962-65.