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Monthly Archives: December 2024
Five on a Treasure Island: The graphic novel
Ages ago I intended to write a review of the two Famous Five graphic novels that I have. Instead I wrote a lengthy post covering what had been published in different languages – and even more have come out since … Continue reading
Letters to Enid part 62: From volume 3 issue 24
Previous letters pages can be found here. Letters page from Volume 3, issue 24. November 23rd – December 1955. OUR LETTER PAGE A letter from Rosemary Cox, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. Dear Enid Blyton, One day Daddy, Mummy and I … Continue reading
Posted in Magazines
Tagged Enid Blyton's Magazine, Letters page, Letters to Enid from volume 3
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Monday #608
We are well into December now! Brodie has asked for Christmas-themed stories so we have picked up Christmas Tales which we only half-read after Christmas 2022 and then forgot about. Letters to Enid part 62 and Five on a Treasure … Continue reading
Collins Children’s Annual 1958 part 2
Part one of the annual can be found here. PLEASE TO REMEMBER! A rather frightening-looking guy in this illustration for the Guy Fawkes night-themed poem. I didn’t guess that’s what the poem would be about though remember is a fairly good … Continue reading
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Tagged Annuals, Collin's Children's Annual, G.W. Backhouse, Gilbert Dunlop, Hilda McGavin, Muffin the Mule
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November 2024 round up
The last round up – or the penultimate round up, depending on how you look at it – of the year! What I read I am at 143/150 (having added the one I proof-read as it is out now – … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, Monthly round up, November, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Monday #607
The first Monday of December is upon us! Our Christmas tree went up last weekend but yesterday the advent calendars came out and Elf arrived. I can’t decide how I think Blyton would have felt about Elf. He’s very much … Continue reading
