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, Blyton has ...
Enid Blyton was one of the most successful and beloved children's authors of all time. Born in London in 1897, she wrote more than 700 books and thousands of short stories during her career. Her books ...
On Enid Blyton’s 120th birth anniversary, we bring you a list of some of her most popular children’s books. Ginger-ale, ham sandwiches, meat pies, pop biscuits and google buns. If Enid Blyton comes to ...
IT WAS a time when “queer” meant “odd” and “Dick” or “Fanny” were best mates. Crack out the pop biscuits and reminisce about Enid Blyton’s classic The Magic Faraway Tree. It was racist, xenophobic, ...
They have explored treasure islands, thwarted smugglers and solved crimes – all while quaffing lashings of ginger beer. Now Enid Blyton’s Famous Five are to embark on a series of altogether less ...
Cripes! The Secret Seven are off on a new adventure. They are shelving the jolly japes and following the Famous Five into the digital age, taking modern dialogue with them on their travels. Having ...
Enid Blyton is best known for her light-hearted fiction books The Famous Five. But we reveal the cold and often unhappy home life that her daughters recall, and the first husband she set out to ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. LONDON: A manuscript of a previously unknown Enid Blyton novel has been discovered in a children's book centre. Mr Tumpy's Caravan is a ...
The move comes less than a month after UK publisher Puffin was forced into a backdown after attempting to remove words such as “fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl classics including Charlie and the ...