Every year without fail I am the lucky recipient of some Blyton-themed stuff when it comes to my birthday and Christmas.

Here’s what it looked like this year.

Famous Five Jigsaw

This is a 1975 Whitman 224 piece puzzle of Five Fall Into Adventure. There were three others made – Five On a Treasure Island, Five Go to Smuggler’s Top and Five Go to Demon’s Rocks.

Sadly mine came with only 214 pieces, one of which was for a different jigsaw – but that’s always the risk you take with older kids’ puzzles, toys and games!

Famous Five Graphic Novels

I’ve already got the first four graphic novels by Beja and Natiel, so these are the recently released next two in the series.

Famous Five Adventures

Apparently there are 20 of these! The first ones are actually Blyton-written and are the short stories collected in Five Have a Puzzling Time and Other Stories, but then the rest are new short stories by other authors.

I’ve never read any of these before but I couldn’t resist asking for one set in a library.

Child Whispers

Not the rare (aka expensive) 1922 version, but still one that has all the poems in and which I was intrigued enough by to ask for.

Amongst other things I was also lucky enough to get a couple of books about Shirley Hughes:

And a Lego 3-in-1 set which can be a typewriter, a keytar or a flower pot. Naturally I’m going to build it as the typewriter and although I know that Blyton’s typewriter wasn’t pink, it’ll remind me of her anyway.

Let me know in the comments if you got any Blytonian presents last year!