The Enchanted Wood - Enid Blyton

As a child, I was infatuated with Enid Blyton's Famous Five books. I read them all, and then again and again and again. I still read them now, every couple of years or so. Blyton was a brilliant children's author. She managed to capture what every child has in abundance: imagination. The Enchanted Wood says it all in the title, really, and she has written another gem here. Set in an era without TV or computers, where children had to just use their imagination, Blyton's The Enchanted Wood is the precursor to the better know Magic Faraway Tree, and it features three siblings, Jo, Bess and Fanny, as they go away for the holidays to stay with some relatives, and ...  Read the complete review

I adored Enid Blyton books as a child - and years later they are still going strong . With a daughter of my own now, I've taken to picking up Enid Blyton books second hand from the local charity shops so I can share some of my favourite stories with her -and one of my absolute favourites is 'The Enchanted Wood' , the first in the Faraway Tree series . Jo, Bess and Fanny (snigger) move to the countryside, near to a large forest . Exploring the forest, they soon discover that it is home to a whole host of magical and wonderful creatures - but the most wonderful and magical place of all is the Faraway Tree ,a tree so tall that it's top actually comes up far ...  Read the complete review

Enid Blyton was a British writer whose career spanned 40 years in which time she published over 700 children's books, some of her characters included The Famous Five, The Secret Seven and more famously Noddy and Big Ears but for me the best book she ever wrote was the Enchanted wood. I read this book to my daughter who is now grown up and has a daughter of her own and I am now reading the book to her. They both loved it and I certainly enjoyed reading it to them, both for my enjoyment of the book and to see the wonder and surprise on their faces as the book revealed characters like "the angry pixie", "moonface", "saucepan ...  Read the complete review