The tales follow a group of children's adventures at the top of a tree in an enchanted forest. Blyton wrote the Faraway Tree books between 1939 and 1951. The characters in the stories included ...
Enid Blyton's books remain actively in print to this day and have been translated into over 35 languages, selling over 500 million copies worldwide and making her the most translated children's ...
In 2008, Enid Blyton was voted the UK's best loved writer, beating JK Rowling, Austen and even Shakespeare. Yet, although characters like Noddy and the Famous Five still have devoted fans ...