The final name change, which bothers me the most of all however, is Dame Slap, who is now Dame Snap. This chap is rather stuck on toffee and he demands it from anyone who wishes to use his own special way of getting down to the ground in a hurry.

There's one chap who's forgotten his name, and there's a large owl and also a washer-woman who lives near the top. They often harp on about how lucky they are that the Enchanted Wood starts across the lane from their house. The Faraway Tree Series written by the much beloved Enid Blyton was one of my favorite book series when I was a kid.Morpurgo and his wife, Clare, founded the charity Farms for City Children, which offers children and teachers from urban primary schools the chance to gain hands-on experience in one of three country farms. I understand that times have changed and that smacking children is now frowned upon, but this is just a harmless children's story and I find this change extremely irritating because I feel it to be idiotic. Some' don't now appreciate the way the brother, Jo [not Joe], who was also apparently the oldest of the three children, seemed always to be in charge of his two sisters.

This was probably one of the few series that I hadn't read and I was rather excited to get deep into it. It didn’t seem too simplistic, and I felt utterly engaged with the characters and their adventures regardless of their ages. The slide spirals round and down the tree-trunk and at the base of the tree a little door pops open and the cushion with its passenger ends up on a tuft of green moss.She is also quite happy for the children to bring home things from the Faraway tree lands, that could be worth quite a bit (i. Another repeated (again and again and again and again) 'gag' is where the Old Saucepan Man miss-hears every second thing said to him. Folio commissioned Hokyoung Kim for the artwork, while the late author’s wife, Wendy Benchley, provides a fascinating new introduction.

We are at the mercy of the illustrators because Eileen Soper who was yet another Blyton artist, put wings on some of her pixies and not on others so maybe elves could have wings as well but in the long run — it doesn't really matter. Rather than this being a review of the book, I'm going to use this space mainly to rant and get out all my angry feels about the 'updating' of Enid Blyton's books. The Enchanted Wood was written just prior to the years when the author began producing her landmark series such as the Bill Smugs and Kirrin books not to mention the Holmesian Find-Outers tales.Jo with his sisters Bessie and Fanny are the anchors from where all the adventures begin and they are pleasant kids whose make-up could be compared to other Blyton characters such as Molly and Peter in the aforementioned Wishing Chair tales.