How grand it must be to have a rich grandfather to take you on an extended vacation with a private guide to an uninhabited island in the South Seas!
I like that this vacation brought all new, exciting adventures, and that Grandfather went along, too. Plus, we see good old Mike again!
The mystery basically involved the group having some unexpected encounters on the island, and they wondered what it was all about. There was a relatively dramatic twist in this one, I think. It could have been a lot more suspenseful along the lines of the TV series Lost, but Gertrude Chandler Warner manages to keep it pretty low-key. As you might expect, everything comes together very nicely in the end.
I was happy to see the children continue their schoolwork while on vacation, but it seemed awfully quaint that Grandfather was able to procure each of the kid's lessons ahead of time from their respective teachers, and somehow, those lessons came collated in personalized bound books!
Finally, one caveat for those who may be reading this book to younger children: The book does mention cannibals and shark attacks.
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