The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

I want to climb the Magic Faraway Tree again! (600 words)
by ladybracknell - written on 01/08/09 (Very useful, 444 readings)
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Although Enid Blyton has become less fashionable of late and some of her characters are rather un-PC, she was undeniably the doyenne of children s fiction for several decades and some of her books are as relevant to twenty-first century children as they were to their parents and grandparents, and possibly even great-grandparents. The Magic Faraway Tree is just such a book. This is the second in Blyton s wonderful trilogy about this magical tree. Back story: Jo, Bessie and Fanny move with their parents to a house on the edge of a wood. Whilst exploring the woods where the trees whisper "wisha, wisha, wisha" the children find right in the middle, a huge ...

Second Form at St. Clare's - Enid Blyton

Trouble from the Top Dog (631 words)
by keeperofthematri - written on 13/07/09, updated on 09/05/10 (Very useful, 49 readings)
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This fourth book in the series is the first not to take place in the first form. Pat, Isabel & the rest of their friends have been moved up to the second form and have a new teacher, Miss Jenks. As always, Blyton introduces a number of new girls into the mix. This term there are four:- two completely new girls & two "old" girls. The two "old" girls are Elsie Fanshawe & Anna Johnson. They've been kept down in the second form & Miss Jenks decides to make them joint head girls despite the fact that Elsie is spiteful & Anna is lazy. She & Miss Theobald, the headmistress, hope that the responsibility of being head girls will be good for ...