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Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.īlyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Just let your fantasy fly and imagine the Land of Do-As-You-Please, the Land-Of-Take-Įven in these good lands our protagonists still face adversities and challenges that they overcome with the help of their friends from the Faraway Tree.Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.īorn in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. These are funny, exciting, magical adventures that will delight children again and again.Īny kind of land can arrive at the top of the tree and some lands are truly incredible. Please, the Land of Birthdays, Land of Toys and Dame Slap's school! The lands keep changing and in almost every chapter a new land comes, such magical lands as the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, the Land of Do-As-You. The three kids become best friends with the inhabitants of the Faraway Tree - Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy, with whom they discover new lands at the top of the Their incredible adventure start when they start exploring The Enchanted Wood and discover the Faraway Tree, which is inhabited by fairy folk. In The Enchanted Wood, the three children Jo, Bessie and Fanny (or Joe, Beth and Frannie - in the new politically corrected version of the book that was published recently) move to live in the countryside. I'm saving this trio of books them as a treat. Since we finished reading The Enchanted Wood and its fantastic sequels The Magic Faraway Tree and The Folk of The Faraway Tree, I've been bombarded by requests from my twins to re-read them. Yep, Blyton beats the Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, Barbara Cartland, Stephen King and the Bible. More specifically the UNESCO Translationum database on most translated authors in the world: Lets just check what does the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) say about Enid Blyton? It's not just me, I'm not the only one who is fondly remembering Enid.īlyton certainly is one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. I'm going to make that trip soon!Īnd should I admit to you now that I already bought some four dozen new Blytons for my home library? Better not.

More than a hundred Blytons are currently waiting in a bookcase in my mom's garage, until someone comes to pick them up. Yep, my babies - you still don't know about this treasure that is waiting for you! I've got good news for my twins, I saved all my Enid Blyton's. Our bounty consisted mostly of the the Famous Five (21 novels, 1942–1963, based on four children and their dog), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, (15 novels, 1943–1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police) as well as the Secret Seven (15 novels, 1949–1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries). We spent all our pocket money on Blyton books and we were in a hurry back home.

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Leamington Spa (I don't remember the 'Royal' part was part of the town's name back then) was great, but what made it really memorable was the fact that we dragged home a suitcase full of Enid Blyton's paperbacks. Today authorities would probably take us aside at the airport thinking we were. Yep, our parents sent just us the two of us travelling overseas by airplane to a summer school. My 13-year old brother and I went together to England for a month-long summer school in Royal Leamington Spa. I still remember the summer of 1980, when I was 10 years old.

Many wants their children to read encyclopedias and stuffs like that to make their kids brighter and smarter, thus robbing off the magical world of childhood.' They are now in all those educational stuffs and focused too much on IQ, EQ and all the blehs of modern times. ' It is a pity that some parents do not introduce Enid Blyton’s stories to their kids anymore. Most kids who read Blytons - they never forgot the experience.Īs 5xMom blogger pointed out in her ' Will the Enid Blyton’s fans please stand up?' post:

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