The books are set in a fantasy world in the sky Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree is being brought to life on the big screen for the first time. StudioCanal, which was behind the Paddington ...
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 ...
According to The Enid Blyton Society, she published a staggering 185 novels/novelettes, 292 'character' books (which contained 858 short stories), 1,008 short story series books (containing 8,183 ...
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 ...
Theroux said: “I don’t know for sure, but I think it was partly due to us reading books by Enid Blyton. We started with the St Clare books and then we moved onto the Malory Towers books.