The Enchanted Wood: 1 (The Magic Faraway Tree)

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Sorted and the City: China gets the Noddy". The Mirror. 16 March 2004. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014. The lands at the top are sometimes extremely unpleasant – for example, the Land of Dame Slap (altered to Dame Snap in revised editions), an aggressive school teacher; and sometimes fantastically enjoyable - notably the Land of Birthdays, the Land of Goodies, the Land of Take-What-You-Want, and the Land of Do-As-You-Please. The Comic Strip's Five Go Mad in Dorset contains the first occurrence of a phrase wrongly attributed to Blyton, "lashings of ginger beer". [130] a b "The misadventures of Enid Blyton". The Malay Mail. 31 May 2000. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014. Palmer, Alex (2013), Literary Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature, Skyhorse Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-62873-221-4

notes: The first dustwrapper had a plain white spine with just the price in red on it. A red line drawing was added to the spine in January 1940 @ 4/- and it became plain white in March 1942 @ 5/- with the book reduced in size to 8¼ X 5¾. This was changed to a full-colour pictorial spine in November 1951 @ 7/-)Seven Stories: Enid Blyton Collection Highlights", Seven Stories Collections Department , retrieved 22 June 2014 The second thing to note is that if you read this book as a child then all four children in the modern edition will have changed their names! Moon-Face is so named for his round face that looks like the moon. His house is similarly round and is filled with curved furniture. He is the owner of the slippery-slip, a slide which starts in the middle of his house which lets you slide down to the bottom of the Faraway Tree instead of climbing down. It is used as a means of exiting the tree and has played an important part in some of the adventures, where others have sought control of the tree or their rooms;

a b c d e Johnstone, Anne (29 July 2006). "Enid Blyton's books were until recently sacrificed on the altar of 'political correctness', now they are enjoying a renaissance and her daughter is preparing to celebrate a special anniversary". The Herald. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014.The Saucepan Man's mother, who lives with Dame Washalot after The Folk of the Faraway Tree. She runs a cake shop; Britain's Best Loved Authors", CostaBookAwards.com, archived from the original on 30 September 2011 , retrieved 22 January 2014 In 1997, stories from the novels were adapted into animated ten-minute episodes for the TV series Enid Blyton's Enchanted Lands. The series, entitled Enchanted Lands: The Magic of the Faraway Tree had 13 episodes:

The conceptual idea of a Faraway Tree was expressed in the mid 1930's when Enid Blyton produced a book that featured two children who also climb a Faraway Tree in an Enchanted Wood. Their father has a cousin who lives in the tree and would you believe it — the cousin's name is Moonface (without a hyphen). Now if we want to pursue this it can all get a bit strange because in Enid Blyton's New Noddy Colour Strip Book Noddy visits The Man in the Moon and accompanies him on a trip to the Faraway Tree where Moon-Face lives. It turns out that Moon-Face is The Man in the Moon's cousin so one could question the genetic make-up of the extended family — but I think it's best that we leave it there. In 1920, Blyton moved to Chessington and began writing in her spare time. The following year, she won the Saturday Westminster Review writing competition with her essay "On the Popular Fallacy that to the Pure All Things are Pure". [13] Publications such as The Londoner, Home Weekly and The Bystander began to show an interest in her short stories and poems. [1] Child Whispers (1922) Dow, James (25 January 2002), "Toytown to Tinseltown: Noddy film on the cards", The Scotsman, archived from the original on 8 July 2014 , retrieved 28 March 2014 There are references to the Faraway Tree characters in several of the Enid Blyton books and it is nice to come across them because it keeps the characters alive and it is a little like coming across old friends when one reads about Chinky who starred in the Wishing Chair stories, visiting the Land of Goodies at the top of the Faraway Tree or the Saucepan Man visiting Big Ears' house for hot scones in Cheer Up, Little Noddy. The Enchanted Lands", Genome Project: Radio Times 1923–2009, no.3847, BBC, 23 October 1997, p.88 , retrieved 25 February 2018If you pay attention reading this book (published 1939) you will see a good number of ideas re-used later by authors such as Roald Dahl and JK Rowling. Whether Enid Blyton was copying them in turn from some earlier writer I can't say. Suffice it to say that things like Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, and Willy Wonker's whole meal in a single strip of chewing gum may well have their root in the Faraway Tree's ... roots. The tree is populated by a good number of folk, though only a few are ever named. There appears to be no wa Brazouski, Antoinette; Klatt, Mary J. (1994), Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-313-28973-6 Dame Washalot, who spends her time washing her clothes and throwing the dirty wash-water down the tree. If she has no clothes to wash, she washes the dirty laundry of other people and even the leaves of the Faraway Tree;

Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943. She changed the surname of her daughters to Darrell Waters [102] and publicly embraced her new role as a happily married and devoted doctor's wife. [7] After discovering she was pregnant in the spring of 1945, Blyton miscarried five months later, following a fall from a ladder. The baby would have been Darrell Waters's first child and the son for which they both longed. [4] The children learn of other inhabitants. 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. When I first read about this resident laundress I visualized her balancing on a broad branch with a kind of cauldron in which she did all her washing. The woman whose name is appropriately Dame Washalot would have possessed her own house in the tree-trunk and probably washed the clothes inside but how on earth would she get rid of the water? The children receive the answer to this question — particularly Bessie! Blyton felt a responsibility to provide her readers with a positive moral framework, and she encouraged them to support worthy causes. [82] Her view, expressed in a 1957 article, was that children should help animals and other children rather than adults: a b c d e Bensoussane, Anita, "A Biography of Enid Blyton– The Story of Her Life", Enid Blyton Society , retrieved 25 January 2014 Some' feel the youngest sister was fat shamed for helping herself to too many toffees "because she was a very greedy girl"...as most young kids are when face to face with delicious candy. I have 10 grandchildren, and I have to put my foot down all the time and say, "That's enough!" No shame there. That's just the nature of kids. Yes. They are all greedy with candy and want more and more!

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