Previous letters pages can be found here.

Letters page from Volume 4, issue 1.

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LETTER PAGE

A letter from Jane Phillips, Hatton, nr. Runcorn, Cheshire.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I want to tell you about our Church Bazaar. Daddy and Mummy have the toy stall and John and I help. This year we had Noddy’s Tea-Party for our stall. Daddy made a roof and door for our little Wendy House, and painted bricks on paper and pinned it on the walls so that it looked just like Noddy’s House-For-One. We had fairy lights outside too. We sold tickets to children to come and get a present from Curly Doll (me !) and then they went into Noddy’s House to see Noddy and Big-Ears having their tea, and each child had an iced biscuit. John was Noddy and a friend was Big-Ears, and my Daddy was Mr. Plod. He was a VERY BIG Mr. Plod because he is six feet two! We made up a little rhyme for me to say. It was-
“Hallo, little children, come along and see
Where Noddy and friend Big-Ears are going to have their tea,
Step inside the tiny house,
Tiptoe as quietly as a mouse,
Mr. Plod the policeman is very big and strong,
He will show the children which way to come along!”
With much love from
Jane Phillips (aged 7 ½).

(This is one of the best letters I have ever had, Jane-you certainly deserve a nice prize. What a wonderful family you are for ideas!)

A letter from Jasper Lee-Woolf, Lower Heyford, Oxon.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I am a Busy Bee, and I would like to tell you about our two geese. We hatched them out of two eggs that were given to us, and a hen sat on them and acted as mother. One is a goose, and one is a gander. They are fully-grown now and stand on tip-toe to try and get the bread off our bird-table. They run to meet me and my brother Philip when we come home from school, but hiss at strangers. I don’t think we shall ever be able to eat them for our Christmas dinner!
Love from,
Jasper Lee-Woolf.

(I think your letter is so good, Jasper, that I am sending you a prize as well as Jane. I really think I shall have to put your two geese into a story – so look out for it some time this year!)

Only two letters this week, as Jane’s was pretty epic. This is one of those times I wish that photographs were printed as I’d love to see the Noddy/Wendy House and all the family’s costumes.

I wonder if Blyton did write a story about two geese in 1954. Can anyone think of one?