The pile of books on my side table is slowly getting smaller as I work through the Holiday Stories each week. As I’m back to working on transcribing the letters pages, though, I expect I’ll end up with magazines added to the pile for a while.

Letters to Enid 28

and

Enid Blyton’s Holiday Stories part 8

This is not an April Fool’s! That really is a biscuit tree, grown from biscuit crumbs. The story is The Biscuit Tree, and this Helen Jacobs illustration is the one accompanying the story in the Third Holiday Book.