Category Archives: Illustrations and artwork

The Five as you have never seen them before

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Fiona

Eileen Soper’s Five are the real Five to me. I grew up seeing her illustrations in lots of my Famous Five books and although I also had some Betty Maxey books too, I always picture Julian, Dick, Anne, George and … Continue reading →

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Eileen Soper at Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Fiona

It’s no secret that Eileen Soper is my favourite Blyton illustrator. She is best known for her work on the 21 Famous Five books, both the covers and internal illustrations, but she also illustrated lots of short story collections, a … Continue reading →

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The Naughtiest Girl in the School covers through the years

Posted on October 4, 2019 by Fiona

Previous covers through the years : The Famous Five, The Adventure Series, The Secret Series, Malory Towers, The Barney Mysteries, Mr Galliano’s Circus, St Clare’s There are only three Naughtiest Girl books if you are counting the original novels; The … Continue reading →

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The St Clare’s covers through the years, 1990s – now

Posted on July 24, 2019 by Fiona

Continuing on from my previous post which looked at covers from the 1940s originals through to those in the 1980s. Familiar and unfamiliar Deans The first set of Deans, from 1990, are much like several other sets for other series. … Continue reading →

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The St Clare’s covers through the years, 1940s – 1980s

Posted on July 20, 2019 by Fiona

Having already done The Famous Five, Adventure Series, Barney Mysteries, Malory Towers, the Secret Series and Mr Galliano’s Circus, I’m now going to tackle St Clare’s. There are six books in the St Clare’s Series (if you don’t include the … Continue reading →

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The Mr Galliano’s Circus covers through the years

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Fiona

Seeing as I like looking at all the different cover designs that Enid Blyton’s books have had over the years, I’ve decided it’s Mr Galliano’s Circus’ turn. I have already looked at The Famous Five, The Secret Series, The Adventure … Continue reading →

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The Barney Mystery covers through the years

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Fiona

In the not-too-distant past I have looked at the various different covers that have been used for the Famous Five, Malory Towers, Secret Series and the Adventure Series. Now it is the turn of The Barney Mysteries, or as they … Continue reading →

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The Malory Towers covers through the years part 2

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Fiona

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 →

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The Malory Towers covers through the years

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Fiona

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 →

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The Secret Series covers through the years

Posted on February 16, 2019 by Fiona

I recently looked at the different covers used for the Famous Five books and The Adventure Series. One series. Five books. Four cover artists. The Secret Series is perhaps unusual due to how many different cover artists the series had. While … Continue reading →

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Noddy loses his clothes, artwork by Gina Parr

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Fiona

While searching for information on who steals Noddy’s clothes in one of the books (for the latest search terms post) I stumbled upon something a bit random and surprising. Now that’s not that uncommon with the amount of stuff on … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series covers through the years part 2

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Fiona

Last week I wrote a great deal about the Stuart Tresilian covers for this series. In my defence there are three different covers for six of the books and two for the other two. That’s twenty-two different designs! Anyway, after … Continue reading →

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The Adventure Series covers through the years

Posted on January 19, 2019 by Fiona

I recently looked at the covers of the Famous Five covers through the years. There were so many incarnations of the 21 books that it took two posts. The Adventure Series hasn’t been reprinted nearly so many times, so this should … Continue reading →

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The Famous Five covers through the years, part 2: 1990s-2018

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Fiona

Last time I started at the beginning with Eileen Soper, and on to Betty Maxey and the TV tie-in covers. Now we have the 90s covers and the dreaded modern ones. My era of Famous Fives Technically in my era … Continue reading →

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The Famous Five covers through the years, part 1: 1940s-1990s

Posted on December 8, 2018 by Fiona

The Famous Five books have been in print for nearly 80 years now, and along the way they have appeared with a lot of different looks from the original Eileen Soper covers to TV tie-ins and famous illustrators. We will … Continue reading →

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