Everything else


To make finding posts (and especially other posts within a series) easier I’ve listed them all here with links (and I’ll add new posts as they are published). First are the series of posts, then one-off posts by category.

If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for you can browse what each of our writers have written from their links on the About page, or use the category cloud on the right side to pick a topic. You can also use the search box to see all articles featuring “The Famous Five” etc.

There are separate pages for fanfictionbook reviews, character posts, Blyton’s poems, recipes, updates to Blyton’s books and TV series posts

Series of Posts

10 facts about ______ and me
The Adventure Series
The Famous Five by Stef
The Famous Five by Fiona
Malory Towers
Banshee Towers sagas
The tale of how I completed my Five Find-Outers and Dog collection
Banshee Towers, you are mine
Su’s Five Find-Outers and Dog collection
Blyton by others
A guide to prequels, sequels and continuations
A guide to unnecessary retellings
Game books
Blytonian confessions
Confessions of a Blyton addict by Francis
Confessions of a Blyton fan by Corinna
Corinna’s confession: Five on a Treasure Island
Blyton’s book covers, the good and the bad
Favourite covers part 1
Favourite covers part 2
Favourite covers part 3
The worst ever covers
The most misleading Famous Five covers
Covers that give away the ending
Blyton’s book covers through the years
Adventure Series part 1
Adventure Series part 2
Barney Mysteries
Famous Five part 1
Famous Five part 2
Malory Towers part 1
Malory Towers part 2
Mr Galliano’s Circus
Naughtiest Girl in the School
Secret Series
St Clare’s part 1: 1940s to 1980s
St Clare’s part 2: 1990’s to now
The Five Find-Outers
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Six Cousins
Blyton in the library
Best of Blyton at the library
Bringing Blyton to life: A Blyton library event
Birthday presents and Boots’ Libraries
Worst of Blyton at the library
Blyton gifts we’ve received
My favourite birthday cake – Enid Blyton style
A very Blyton Christmas
Very Blyton birthday presents
Another roundup of Blyton presents
My Christmas present round up
Fiona’s present round up 2016
Blytonian presents
Another Blyton Christmas
A roundup of Blyton presents
What would Enid Blyton characters be unwrapping for their Christmas?
2018 Birthday and Christmas present round up
2019 Birthday and Christmas present round up
2020 Birthday and Christmas present round up
2021 Birthday and Christmas present round up
2022 Birthday and Christmas present round up
2023 Birthday and Christmas present round up
Blyton related crafts
How to make a book covered box
How to make a canvas book bag
How to make canvas wall art
Enid Blyton greetings cards
Blyton versus…
English Heritage
English Heritage The rematch
Jacqueline Wilson
Blyton web search terms
When people search for Enid Blyton, what are they looking for?
When people search for Enid Blyton revisited
When people search for Enid Blyton re-revisited
Another look at people searching for Blyton
Even more search terms
Another load of search terms
Search terms, the 7th edition
Search terms 8
Search terms the whole nine yards
Search terms 10
Search terms volume 11
A dirty dozen of search terms
Buying and collecting books
Books for babies: the lead-up to Blyton
Fiona’s Blyton wishlist
A week of Blyton buys by Fiona
Buying Enid Blyton books in charity shops
Collecting Blyton’s books by Fred
Collecting children’s books by Fiona
eBay of Adventure by Stef
Hunting for Blytons in Hull by Fred
So many editions
What I nearly bought this week…
Three irreplaceable books
Enid Blyton’s Magazines
A look at Enid Blyton’s Magazine
More on Enid Blyton’s Magazine
The Enid Blyton Magazine
This is Enid Blyton Magazine
How to store Enid Blyton’s Magazines
Enid Blyton references in other books
In other fiction
In other fiction part 2
In other fiction part 3
In memoirs
Book Lovers’ Miscellany +/- Enid Blyton
Favourite Blyton books
Fiona’s favourite stand-alone titles
Fiona’s six favourite Enid Blyton Books
Stef’s six favourite Blyton books
Stef’s favourite short stories
Stef’s top nostalgic reads
Favourite Blytons, series books in order
The Adventure Series
The Barney Mysteries
The Famous Five part 1
The Famous Five part 2
The Famous Five part 3
The Famous Five part 4
Five Find-Outers part 1
Five Find-Outers part 2
Five Find-Outers part 3
Malory Towers
The Secret Series
The Five as you have never seen them before
Part 1, from the Methuen Colour Story Books
Part 2, from the Hodder Story Books
Part 3, from various titles
Part 4, from various titles
How to get Blyton’s style
Camping and adventuring materials
Style for boys
Style for girls
Style for babies
Inscriptions in books
Introduction and prize giving labels
This book belongs to
It’s not her book, it’s mine!
Books given with love
Lego Blyton
Five on a Treasure Island
Five on a Hike Together
The Secret Seven
The Magic Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair
Letters to Enid, from Enid Blyton’s Magazine
Letters from volume 1 (1953)
Letters from volume 2 (1954)
Letters from volume 3 (1955)
Locked down library book displays
Week one
Week two
Week three
Weeks four and five
Weeks six and seven
Weeks eight and nine
Weeks ten and eleven
Weeks twelve and thirteen
Weeks fourteen and fifteen
Monthly flowers
JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJune
JulyAugust , SeptemberOctober, November, December
My childhood books
Part one (Amelia Jane and the Famous Five)
Part two (Adventure Series and Malory Towers)
Part three (Secret Series, Galliano’s Circus and the Adventurous Four)
Part four  (Barney Mysteries and The Five Find-Outers)
Part five (Secret Seven, St Clare’s, Farm Series, Naughtiest Girl)
Part six (Stand Alone Titles Part One)
Part seven (Stand Alone Titles Part Two)
Names Blyton used, a guide
Part 1: Jacks, Jos, Jakes, the Welsh and Grandads
Part 2: Toms, Dicks, Harries, Susans, Peters and more
On my bookshelf
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Rating Blyton’s book titles
The Famous Five part 1
The Famous Five part2
Recovering from illness in Blyton’s books
Part one: Flu
Part two: Measles, coughs and colds
Part three: Mumps, scarlet fever, whooping cough, unknown illnesses and illnesses at school
Top moments from books or series
The Famous Five
The Adventure Series
Malory Towers
Praise and criticism of Enid Blyton
The Who’s Who of Children’s Literature
The Child and the Book
The Ultimate First Book Guide
The World of Children’s Books
Seven Stories visits
A trip to Seven Stories in Newcastle part one
A trip to Seven Stories in Newcastle part two

Stand Alone Posts 

Enid Blyton and her life
126 years of Blyton: 126 moments from the booksHoliday Stories fourteen to sixteen
Holiday Stories seventeen to eighteen
Holiday Stories nineteen to twenty
Holiday Stories twenty-one to twenty-two
Holiday Stories twenty-four to twenty-five
Holiday Stories twenty-six to twenty-seven
A Summary of her writing career
Article review: Granny, Noddy and Me an Interview with Sophie Smallwood 
Article review: Are the days of Enid Blyton bashing over?
Article review: Rivals or allies? Malcolm Saville and Enid Blyton
Article review: An interview with Enid Blyton
Article review: The children who inspired Enid Blyton’s Famous Five book covers are revealed
Blyton’s Britain part 1
Blyton’s Britain part 2
Enid Blyton’s blue plaque appeal
Here’s to Enid Blyton on the 44th anniversary of her death
A Writer’s Garden part 1: Old Thatch in the present day
A Writer’s Garden part 2: The original Old Thatch 
Games and toys
The Famous Five Adventures card game
The Famous Five card game
The Famous Five party game
The Famous Five stationery
Noddy at the V&A Museum of Childhood
Noddy in Fuzzy Felt Toyland
Modern Noddy in Fuzzy Felt Toyland
The Adventure Series on the Nintendo DS
The Faraway Tree on the Nintendo DS
Personal stories
A Blyton childhood in New Zealand
Enid Blyton Day 2012
Find-Outers in retirement
How every part of my holiday reminded me of Blyton
How many Enid Blyton books have I actually read in the last ten years?
Learning French with The Famous Five
The Magic Gold: An 8-year-old Corinna’s tribute to Enid Blyton
My favourite Enid Blyton quotes
Mystery, Magic and Midnight Feasts!
Preview Night
Reading Blyton for comfort
Why I love re-reading Blyton

Miscellaneous 
The Blyton Book of Keepsakes
The Bumper Blyton Improvised Adventure
An interview with Sue Welford – Author of the Just George Series
The trials of Aunt Fanny – Feeding the Five (and Quentin)
What Blyton products we would like to see in 2016
How to throw a Famous Five party
Synopsis of The Mysterious Boy by Julie Robinson
The secrets behind our blogging
Noddy Loses His Clothes – Artwork by Gina Parr
What Would Julian Do? The religion of Julianity
11 things I’ve learned about Camping from Enid Blyton
Blyton on Birthdays
Enid Blyton Ephemera
My Enid Blyton hallway

Reblogs
10 Signs You Read Too Much Enid Blyton as a Child
Creative Kid Thursday – Wonder Reader Faith Jackson!
Getting children to read classic books, or not! by Wendy’s World
Literary Love Letters: Dear Enid Blyton, From Samantha Tonge
A Postcard From Enid Blyton by Roger Thiedeman
35 Things We Learned From the Famous Five a reblog from Forever Amber
The search for Kirrin Island – Memories by Hans van der Klis
Wandering in the dark near Kröller Müller by Hans van der Klis
JSlawit’s introduction to Enid from Where there’s a Jill there’s a way
Blytons’s fund for Seven Stories

If you’re looking for any of our admin posts – such as the Monday posts or round ups etc, you can use the Blog Talk category to see them all.

Updated 18/04/24

Please let us know if any of the links are broken/wrong or you think there’s a better way to organise the material in this list.

15 Responses to Everything else

  1. Veronica says:

    Could you let me know if you have any contact information regarding Sophie Smallwood as I have family photos to pass on
    Thanks

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    • fiona says:

      Sorry Veronica, I don’t have any contact details for Sophie Smallwood. You could try asking Tony Summerfield of the Enid Blyton Society.

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  2. I couldn’t find a contact form, so I’ll try posting my question here:
    Which book has the following plot element: George is kidnapped and forced to write a note to her friends. She signs with “Georgina”, which tells the boys that something is amiss, so they don’t fall into the trap.

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  3. hannah975 says:

    Thanks for this great website (on which I’ve already spent much too much time^^)

    The three links to the pages with fanfiction, book reviews and character posts seem to be broken. They only work when you remove the -index in them.

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  4. Janine says:

    Hello, I have a few Noddy books. Do you where I can donate them to?

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    • Fiona says:

      I don’t know where you are in the world but where I am charity shops usually take books. Those, or a charity redistributing goods to families in need of help.

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  5. Anne Doery says:

    When my brother and I were small, we lived in a flat at Emperor’s Gate, London. Each night our parents would play the Noddy records with Enid Blyton herself narrating and the occasional ringing of Noddy’s bell. I have been trying to find a digital version so I can play it at my brother’s 70th birthday party as a surprise. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have only found vinyls and we no longer have a record player. Thank you so much if you can help.

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    • Fiona says:

      No, sorry, I haven’t come across any digital recordings. I know there are places you can go to get a CVR or cassette tape digitised, these sort of places might also do records if you bought one.

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  6. Trent says:

    Hi, are you able to tell me if there are any Enid Blyton booked illustrated by Georgina Hargreaves, other than the Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair series?

    Thanks, Trent

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