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Noddy made his first appearance in the Sunday Graphic in 1949, the same year as Blyton's first daily Noddy strip for the London Evening Standard. [1] It was illustrated by van der Beek until his death in 1953. [1] [64] Writing style and technique [ edit ] In 1984, American composer Van Dyke Parks produced a children's album, Jump!, based on the Br'er Rabbit tales. The Enid Blyton Trust for Children was established in 1982, with Imogen as its first chairman, [113] and in 1985 it established the National Library for the Handicapped Child. [7] Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine began publication in September 1985 and, on 14 October 1992, the BBC began publishing Noddy Magazine and released the Noddy CD-Rom in October 1996. [1] Bhimani, Nazlin (19 June 2012), "Enid Blyton, educationalist", Institute of Education, University of London, archived from the original on 2 May 2014 , retrieved 30 April 2014Flood, Alison (22 September 2010). "Rare Enid Blyton manuscripts acquired by Seven Stories museum". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 June 2014. Noddy to be launched in China", M2 Best Books, 15 March 2004, archived from the original on 11 June 2014 , retrieved 28 March 2014

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. In 1960 alone, eleven Noddy books were published, including the strip books Noddy and the Runaway Wheel, Noddy's Bag of Money, and Noddy's Car Gets into Trouble. [1] a b "Seven Go on a 21st-Century Adventure: Enid Blyton Classics to Be Rewritten". The Independent. 28 March 2012. Stoney, Barbara (2011) [2006], Enid Blyton: The Biography (Kindleed.), History Press, ISBN 978-0-7524-6957-7 Blyton's Malory Towers has been adapted into a musical of the same name by Emma Rice's theatre company. It was scheduled to do a UK spring tour in 2020 which has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Blyton had an interest in biblical narratives, and retold Old and New Testament stories. The Land of Far-Beyond (1942) is a Christian parable along the lines of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1698), with contemporary children as the main characters. [34] In 1943 she published The Children's Life of Christ, a collection of fifty-nine short stories related to the life of Jesus, with her own slant on popular biblical stories, from the Nativity and the Three Wise Men through to the trial, the crucifixion and the resurrection. [35] Tales from the Bible was published the following year, [36] followed by The Boy with the Loaves and Fishes in 1948. [37] 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. Next up Thorpe Park. Thorpe Park has the scariest log ride ever! I honestly thought about jumping out the boat just before it started going up. I have never wanted to get off a ride so badly. It had ruined log rides for me and I started to avoid them. A worthy message indeed. Perhaps there are better retellings of these stories - or perhaps this is a case of needing to look at the original stories. I originally added a star for the skilled way in which Phyllis Briggs kept the original vernacular within the speech of the animals, whilst retelling the main text of the story in standard English. She also conveyed a sense of the plantation in Georgia, where the stories are set. But I swiftly removed the star for the horribly mismatched illustrations.

Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (21 October 2014), "Enid Blyton's Faraway Tree series inspires new film", The Guardian Edwards, Owen Dudley (2007), British Children's Fiction in the Second World War, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-1651-0a b c d e Bensoussane, Anita, "A Biography of Enid Blyton– The Story of Her Life", Enid Blyton Society , retrieved 25 January 2014 Potter herself “never publicly admitted the source of any inspiration for her drawings, plotlines or protagonists”, Zobel Marshall says. Hollindale argued in his lecture that this may have been because she “misunderstood her own talent and, to the end of her life, was afraid of being caught out as a cheat”. Brer Rabbit Tales (1991), a 47-minute television film written and directed by Al Guest and Jean Mathieson for Emerald City Productions. She felt she had a responsibility to provide her readers with a strong moral framework, so she encouraged them to support worthy causes. In particular, through the clubs she set up or supported, she encouraged and organised them to raise funds for animal and paediatric charities.

a b Brasch, Walter M. (2000). Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus, and the 'Cornfield Journalist': The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris. Mercer University Press. pp. 74, 275. Briggs, Julia; Butts, Dennis; Orville Grenby, Matthew (2008), Popular Children's Literature in Britain, Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84014-242-6 Enid Blyton – the Well-Known Children's Story Writer". The Sunday Observer. 1 April 2013. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014.Adams, Stephen (15 November 2009), "BBC Banned Enid Blyton For 30 Years", The Telegraph , retrieved 20 January 2014 In Bob Dylan's epic poem " Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie", the author lists several people that are commonly looked to for hope and inspiration, saying "that stuff ain't real". In one verse of the poem, he says "And Uncle Remus can't tell you and neither can Santa Claus." [10] [11] Blyton, Enid (2013b) [1963], Secret Seven: 15: Fun For The Secret Seven, Hachette Children's Books, ISBN 978-1-84456-949-6