St Clare's Collection - 9 Books

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Brazouski, Antoinette; Klatt, Mary J. (1994), Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-313-28973-6 Blyton's Noddy, about a little wooden boy from Toyland, first appeared in the Sunday Graphic on 5 June 1949, and in November that year Noddy Goes to Toyland, the first of at least two dozen books in the series, was published. The idea was conceived by one of Blyton's publishers, Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, who in 1949 arranged a meeting between Blyton and the Dutch illustrator Harmsen van der Beek. Despite having to communicate via an interpreter, he provided some initial sketches of how Toyland and its characters would be represented. Four days after the meeting Blyton sent the text of the first two Noddy books to her publisher, to be forwarded to van der Beek. [49] The Noddy books became one of her most successful and best-known series, and were hugely popular in the 1950s. [50] An extensive range of sub-series, spin-offs and strip books were produced throughout the decade, including Noddy's Library, Noddy's Garage of Books, Noddy's Castle of Books, Noddy's Toy Station of Books and Noddy's Shop of Books. [51] I cannot add anything more of any depth to the various posts already made - but a couple of simple answers to your question occur to me.

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ray, Sheila (2004), "Blyton, Enid Mary (1897–1968)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.), Oxford University Press, doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/31939 , retrieved 19 June 2008 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943. She changed the surname of her daughters to Darrell Waters [102] and publicly embraced her new role as a happily married and devoted doctor's wife. [7] After discovering she was pregnant in the spring of 1945, Blyton miscarried five months later, following a fall from a ladder. The baby would have been Darrell Waters's first child and the son for which they both longed. [4] Most interesting characters - Angela’s father! Margery Fenworthy and her mountaineer father - Lucy and her artist father, who never saved a penny - Carlotta’s grandmother (hmmm, I sense a theme) - Miss Kennedy - Miss Jenks - The term passes by eventfully, and Anna becomes a surprisingly popular head girl, throwing aside her laziness. When Elsie is stripped of her position, Anna takes to her new position of sole head girl with a new-found enthusiasm and discovers she actually enjoys the sense of responsibility she feels at helping others and setting a good example. When Mrs Theobald refuses to let Mirabel send a telegram home asking for her violin, mistakenly thinking that Mirabel has only stopped misbehaving because she has got tired of it, she confides in Anna, who goes to see the Headmistress and explains to her that Mirabel is in fact ashamed of herself and wants to do better. As a result of Anna's directness, Mirabel is allowed to send the telegram and Anna is admired and respected by all of the other girls for performing such a kindly act.

Bhimani, Nazlin (19 June 2012), "Enid Blyton, educationalist", Institute of Education, University of London, archived from the original on 2 May 2014 , retrieved 30 April 2014 The Enchanted Lands", Genome Project: Radio Times 1923–2009, no.3847, BBC, 23 October 1997, p.88 , retrieved 25 February 2018

An additional two books were written in 2000 by Pamela Cox to fill the gaps left by Enid Blyton, namely the Third and Sixth Forms (not shown in the summaries below). Sunny Stories was renamed Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories in January 1937, and served as a vehicle for the serialisation of Blyton's books. Her first Naughty Amelia Jane story, about an anti-heroine based on a doll owned by her daughter Gillian, [61] was published in the magazine. [1] Blyton stopped contributing in 1952, and it closed down the following year, shortly before the appearance of the new fortnightly Enid Blyton Magazine written entirely by Blyton. [62] The first edition appeared on 18 March 1953, [63] and the magazine ran until September 1959. [7]Blyton, Enid (November 1991), The Twins at St Clare's: The First Three Books Complete and Unabridged, Dean, ISBN 0-603-55063-0 Thank you Tony for these wonderful notes and Anita from the transcript. Anita, I think you've explained very well what I couldn't put my finger on. Was it unusual for Enid to work from notes? I take it that Enid didn't use her 'cinema screen' method for this book? - If so that's maybe what's missing, it's that unusual spark, magic that is uniquely hers and draws you in? The Comic Strip's Five Go Mad in Dorset contains the first occurrence of a phrase wrongly attributed to Blyton, "lashings of ginger beer". [130]

Blyton's The Faraway Tree series of books has also been adapted to television and film. On 29 September 1997 the BBC began broadcasting an animated series called The Enchanted Lands, based on the series. [169] It was announced in October 2014 that a deal had been signed with publishers Hachette for "The Faraway Tree" series to be adapted into a live-action film by director Sam Mendes' production company. Marlene Johnson, head of children's books at Hachette, said: "Enid Blyton was a passionate advocate of children's storytelling, and The Magic Faraway Tree is a fantastic example of her creative imagination." [170] Mangan, Lucy (22 December 2005). "The Famous Five– in their own words". The Guardian . Retrieved 22 January 2014.

Blyton's range of plots and settings has been described as limited, repetitive and continually recycled. [72] Many of her books were critically assessed by teachers and librarians, deemed unfit for children to read, and removed from syllabuses and public libraries. [7] Responding to claims that her moral views were "dependably predictable", [133] Blyton commented that "most of you could write down perfectly correctly all the things that I believe in and stand for– you have found them in my books, and a writer's books are always a faithful reflection of himself". [134] I don't personaly think either the third form or sixth form books are very good they are certainly no where near as good as Enid Blyton's original 6 books!!!!!! Headmistress Miss Theobald believes that people get out of life what they put into it, telling her pupils: "Do your best for us and St. Clare's will be able to do its best for you!" a b Horn, Caroline (25 July 2010), "Enid Blyton Lingo Gets an Update", The Publisher , retrieved 25 April 2014 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab "Chronology", Enid Blyton Society , retrieved 23 January 2014