The Enchanted Wood: 1 (The Magic Faraway Tree)

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Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's. Ah, one of my absolute childhood favourites. I consider it a privielige that I get to read it to both my own child (5 years old) and my class (NZ yr 3, so 7 turning 8). And it appears that the appeal has not diminished with time. Additionally Dame Slap is now Dame Snap, and disciplines the children in her school by scolding them rather than slapping them.

Enid Blyton: Remembering the Creator of Noddy and The Famous Five", BBC , retrieved 22 January 2014 Seven Stories: Enid Blyton Catalogue", Seven Stories Collections Department, archived from the original on 4 July 2014 , retrieved 22 June 2014 I have a little boy and love reading to him, so this reading list will cover the classic (and new) children’s stories we’re enjoying together. Rewrites a blight on Blyton's legacy... by golly". The Sydney Morning Herald. 1 July 2012 . Retrieved 22 January 2014.Soon after Enid Blyton was born in 1897. Throughout the 40 and 50s, Enid wrote books at a colossal pace: adventure stories, mysteries, magical stories, farming stories, stories for younger children, best-selling series like The Famous Five and Noddy...her writing knew no bounds!

In October 2014, it was announced that the books will be adapted for the cinema for the first time and are being developed for a live action film version by Sam Mendes' production company, Neal Street Productions. [5] As of 2021 [update], the film was still listed as being "in development". [6] Television [ edit ] I have a newer version, so names have been changed from Jo, Bess and Fanny to Joe, Beth and Frannie. I have mixed feelings about the update. I understand why some people would object to Fanny in particular. It's the loss of Bessie that I find saddest as it was updated because Bess/Bessie has fallen out of fashion. While I like the name Beth too, I don't see the issue with an old-fashioned children's book maintaining an older style of name. Matthew, Colin (1999), Brief Lives: Twentieth-century Pen Portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-280089-3The stories take place in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous 'Faraway Tree'. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The wood and the tree are discovered by three children who move into a house nearby. They befriend many of the residents and have adventures in magical lands that visit the top of the tree. The Enid Blyton Trust for Children was established in 1982, with Imogen as its first chairman, [113] and in 1985 it established the National Library for the Handicapped Child. [7] Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine began publication in September 1985 and, on 14 October 1992, the BBC began publishing Noddy Magazine and released the Noddy CD-Rom in October 1996. [1]