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Author Archives: fiona
Enid Blyton, praise and criticism part 2: The Child and the Book
A few weeks ago I looked at what the Who’s Who of Children’s Literature had to say about Enid Blyton, and it was overwhelmingly positive. This time I want to see what The Child and the Book has to say. … Continue reading
Letters to Enid volume 2
Two weeks ago I posted the first ever letters page from Enid Blyton’s Magazine, and here’s the second one. Letters page from Volume 1, issue 11. August 5th – 18th 1953 OUR LETTER PAGE 1. A letter from Jean Shaw, … Continue reading
Monday #265
More Letters to Enid and Enid Blyton in The Child and the Book SORRY NOT TO SEE YOU THESE HOLS. HAVE GOT A MYSTERY TO SOLVE IN TIPPYLOOLOO, AND AM LEAVING BY AEROPLANE TO-DAY. ALL THE BEST! FATTY Fatty sends … Continue reading
The Secret Seven – Mystery of the Skull
Clearly I’m a glutton for punishment as I picked up a copy of the new Secret Seven book while at my nearest library for Bookbug with Brodie. That branch is closing for a while to be refurbished so I grabbed … Continue reading
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Tagged Continuation books, Mystery of the Skull, Pamela Butchart, The Secret Seven
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Monday #264
Barney Mystery covers through the years and The Mystery of the Skull The Mystery of the Invisible Thief is the 8th Find-Outers mystery. As the title suggests there is a thief in Peterswood. An invisible thief. One who is never … Continue reading
Letters to Enid
Recently someone commented on the blog asking how they might find a letter they had written to Enid Blyton many years before. It had been published in Enid Blyton’s magazine in the mid-fifties. I checked all of the copies I … Continue reading
March 2019 round up
What I have read I’ve done a bit better this month, having finally picked up a couple of books that have been sitting on my shelves for ages (one I’ve had on loan since before Brodie was born!) I’m now … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged Doing, March, Monthly round up, Netflix, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Monday #263
As it is April Fool’s day today, I had thought about opening this post with a false story about a brand-new and never- before discovered Enid Blyton book. But I wasn’t sure that I could carry it off convincingly. March … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk
Tagged April, Hello Mr Twiddle!, Monday, Mr Twiddle, The Adventurous Four
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New Term at Malory Towers by Pamela Cox
This is the first of Pamela Cox’s sequels to the Malory Towers books. I wrote a bit about the six new books here, and have got around to reading the first one. My initial impressions Within the first few pages … Continue reading
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Tagged Continuation books, Malory Towers, New Term at Malory Towers, Pamela Cox
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Enid Blyton, praise and criticism part 1: The Who’s Who of Children’s Literature
Enid Blyton’s life and writing career might seem as if it was a perfect, rosy thing. Half of that is her skill in writing. Even in her autobiography and her letters to children she would never let on that things were less … Continue reading
Monday #262
Enid Blyton in the Who’s Who of Children’s Literature and New Term at Malory Towers by Pamela Cox Mam’zelle saw with great pleasure that once again she could lock somebody into somewhere. She began to think that burglar-catching was the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog talk
Tagged Fifth Formers of St Clare's, March, Monday, Noddy Has an Adventure, St Clare's
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Noddy and the Case of the Hiding Pirates
Noddy and the Case of the Hiding Pirates is a soft cover children’s book, based on the latest TV series. It was published by Hodder in 2017, and is the second Noddy tie-in book for that series, though it is … Continue reading
Posted in Blyton on TV, Book reviews
Tagged Noddy, Noddy Toyland Detective, The Case of the Hiding Pirates
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Malory Towers covers through the years part 2
I’ve already looked at the covers from the first editions through to ones from 1990, and now it’s time for the rest of the 90s through to the present day. Here comes the nineties While we have had some modernisation … Continue reading
Monday #261
Malory Towers covers part 2 and Noddy and the Pirates Mystery Moor was once called Misty Moor, because of the terrible mists that crept across it from the sea. Then, one day, the Bartletts who ran a small train to … Continue reading
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Tagged Five Go to Mystery Moor, March, Monday, Mystery Moor, Tassie, The Castle of Adventure
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Five Go Feasting
Five Go Feasting sounds like an average day in the Famous Fives’ world, but is in fact a new(ish) recipe book. It came out in 2018 published by Seven Dials, which is an imprint of Orion Publishing which, in turn, … Continue reading
Posted in Food and recipes
Tagged Emanuel Santos, Five Go Feasting, Josh Sutton, Ruth Palmer
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Monday #260
Hopefully I will get things right this week after messing up the past two. Five Go Feasting and Short Stories from Enid Blyton’s Happy Story Book “Surely our ducks quack more loudly than any others? And need we keep that … Continue reading
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Tagged March, Monday, Mr Twiddle, Rose Longfield, Six Cousins Again, Well Really Mr Twiddle
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February 2019 round up
Well, there has clearly been a mix-up behind the scenes here (and I can’t blame anyone but myself!). I’ve just discovered this post lurking in the drafts folder, when it was meant to be published on March 1. Whoops! Seeing … Continue reading
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Tagged Doing, February, Monthly round up, Netflix, Reading, Round Up, Watching
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Malory Towers covers through the years
Previously I have written about the Famous Five covers, the Adventure Series covers and the Secret Series covers. Now I’m going to look at the covers from Malory Towers, my favourite of the school series. Inside and out with Stanley … Continue reading
Posted in Illustrations and artwork
Tagged Armada, Dragon, Lilian Buchanan, Malory Towers, Mary Gernat, Methuen, Stanley Lloyd
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