The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair - Enid Blyton

The wishing chair was written by Enid Blyton she was a British children's writer, this book was first published in 1937. The book is about two children called Molly and Peter who go to boarding school and in the holidays they come home to stay with their mother. With their mother's birthday coming up Mollie and Peter collect their pocket money and put it together so that they can go searching for a birthday present for her. They come across a very mysterious antiques shop which appears to be run by fairy folk. The children spot a vase that they want to buy and ask the elf for some paper to wrap it in. The elf starts looking for some paper and makes a mess of ...  Read the complete review

As a huge Enid Blyton fan as a child, it was with great pleasure that I introduced my daughter to the wonders of Enid Blyton shortly before her 6th birthday. The first title I chose to share with her was The Adventures of the Wishing Chair. This is the first book of the Wishing Chair series. It starts with how Peter and Mollie came to own a magic wishing chair - a chair that flies! Every chapter after that is a delightful adventure that children will love. Along the way they meet Chinky, a pixie who comes to live with them and share the rest of their adventures. These books are interesting as well as easy enough for a child of around 6/7 to read ...  Read the complete review

As it says in my title, I watched The Adventures of the Wishing Chair a few weeks ago on video and it got me all nostelgic. Enid Blyton was always my favourite author as a child and my 9 year old is a big fan too so I popped up to her room for a copy of The Wishing Chair to read in the bath. The book is pure fantasy in the same vein as The Magic Faraway Tree where a couple of children happen upon an old chair in an Antique shop, they've gone to the Antique shop with thirty five pence to buy a tea caddy for their mums birthday. The children are brother and sister called Mollie and Peter, once in the shop they are captured by a naughty wizard and his cat and ...  Read the complete review