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Author Archives: Fiona
Buying Enid Blyton books in charity shops
This advice is probably suitable for all vintage children’s books, not just Blytons, but we’re all about the Blytons on this blog! A lot of this is just common sense, and it’s not going to be a “go to this … Continue reading
The Missing Papers: A St Andrews Adventure, chapter 2
Determined not to keep you waiting a long time between chapters, I’m letting all of you lovely readers have a look at chapter two of The Missing Papers: A St Andrews Adventure. Chapter one can be found here I do … Continue reading
Naughty Amelia Jane!
The Amelia Jane books might well have been the first Blyton ones I read, or had read to me. As I’ve mentioned before I had Dean editions of the first two books, but now I have a 1947 ninth impression … Continue reading
First Monday in September
Well, September is upon us, and so is Autumn. In Dundee the season practically changed overnight, Saturday was warm and sunny but Sunday was cold, cloudy and windy. Our contributor this week is Poppy, and we’ll be putting up the … Continue reading
A celebration of 200 posts
Some of you may remember that back in March this year we reached one hundred posts on the blog. Well, this week we reached our two-hundredth with our Monday post. (This is post number two hundred and two!) That’s an … Continue reading
The Circus of Adventure
First published in 1952 this is the seventh book in the series. There will be fairly big spoilers for the whole book in this review, so you’ve been warned! This is my absolute favourite book in the Adventure Series, but … Continue reading
Monday Again
Well, it’s another week already, and I hope this weeks runs more smoothly than last week did (i.e. I hope I don’t forget to blog this time!) Stef plans to do August Flowers this week, and our contributor will be … Continue reading
The Ladybird – A poem by Enid Blyton
I am a terrible person and a worse blogger. At about 11 o’clock last night I realised I didn’t have blog written for this week, (my excuse, if anyone is interested, is I was writing fanfic) and I couldn’t stay … Continue reading
Blyton Related Crafts: How to make a book covered box
Here’s another present I made for Stef: a box decorated with pages from some of Blyton’s book. I hear some cries of horror already, and I apologise to any of you that think that tearing up books for crafts is … Continue reading
Posted in Crafts
Tagged Crafts, Gifts, How To, Julian Kirrin, Make Your Own Presents, Presents, Reusing Books
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First Monday in August
I’m not sure how or when but apparently it is now August and the year’s rapidly slipping away from us! Things are as disorganised as ever this week behind the scenes on the blog, shame on us! We’re still waiting … Continue reading
Poppy Dresses – A poem by Enid Blyton
Poor Stef’s not been very well for the past few days and on top of that she’s had some computer problems. Unfortunately that means she’s not been able to finish her blog for this week. Instead here’s another of Blyton’s … Continue reading
The Ship of Adventure
First published in 1950 this is the sixth book in the series. THE LOCATION This time the Mannering/Trent clan are off on a Mediterranean cruise, so the ship The Viking Star hosts much of the excitement. They visit quite a … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews
Tagged The Adventure Series, The Ship of Adventure, The Treasure Hunters
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Blyton Related Crafts – How to make a canvas book bag
Stef and I have developed a bit of a habit in that we often make each other gifts for birthdays and Christmas. Generally, they’re Blyton-themed too. For Christmas last year I decorated a bag for her, and I’m going to … Continue reading
Prize Give-Away Monday
Well we’ve reached the magic number of one hundred followers on the blog, so as promised we’re going to give away an Enid Blyton book to one lucky follower. I’ll get to the details in a moment, but first what’s … Continue reading
A review of Humpty Dumpty and Belinda
I’ve been promising this review for years, well, OK since April, and I’ve finally beaten my writer’s block and finished it, hooray! Humpty Dumpty and Belinda is one of two Collins Colour Camera Books where the story is written by Enid Blyton. (The … Continue reading
By the Sea – A poem by Enid Blyton
As we didn’t have a contributor post for today, here is one of Blyton’s poems. It’s rather apt as we were at the beach yesterday, and Stef did a fair bit of paddling. The waves lift up their heads to … Continue reading
The Mountain of Adventure
I’ve just realised I haven’t done an Adventure Series review since mid-May, oops! So now I bring you The Mountain of Adventure, the fifth in the series and originally published in 1949. THE … Continue reading
Monday
We’re trying to get back to our usual routine here, so it’s back to my turn to write the Monday post. We had a couple of exciting moments behind-the-scenes on the blog this week. We reached 21,000 views and we … Continue reading
Gillian Baverstock Remembers Enid Blyton – a review
I’ve already reviewed one book by Gillian Baverstock about her mother, Tell Me About Enid Blyton, but I borrowed this one from Stef recently, as I planned to review as many biographies as I could get my hands on. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, Gillian Baverstock, Sheila Ray, The Blyton Phenomenon
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