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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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