Enid Blyton: Short Story Master

Another banger

Might read them in the future thank you

Very wholesome and wonderful

@Academic Agent triple A will l❤ love the story - hop skip and jump. My father read it to me and it's one of my favourite memories.

Have you introduced triple A to Redwall?

I read the secret seaven books when I was young. They were fairy wholsome and I especially remember the comradery between the various characters in question. The extensive censorship is surprising in it's audacity.

Because they are fun god I'm gonna make sure I buy all my books second hand if possible so I don't buy re edited crap at the end of the day I'd you can't handle the fact that a book that was written probably before your grand parents were born for children no leas is not politically correct you shouldn't be reading at all have a coloring book instead!

It's amazing how you can instantly recognise her signature.

Wholesome children's book writers perform a valuable public service. Much of the slop that is written today exists to poison the young mind as early as possible

Some years ago a biopic on Enid Blyton, played by Helena Bonham-Carter, portrays Blyton as stubborn, nasty to her daughters and vindictive to her husband. Was this movie accurate or just another work of anti-Enid Blyton prejudice?

I loved Blyton as well as the Pullein-Thompson sisters.

I'd be interested to know a list of book recommendations you'd have for young children AA.

The Faraway Tree was indeed the best. I also liked the Naughty Amelia Jane series.

i didnt read a lot as a child but i loved fabulous 5

It was Noddy for me growing up. I had a few Famous Five stories as well but I did not enjoy them as much.

Thank you for the recommendation.

Old, rural, a nature of the west country. Something akin to Wiltshire, Somerset or Devon. A brilliant woman with magnificent skills of narrative.

AA you rock

Good video.

I hardly know any of the shorter stories for smaller children (I don't think that many of them were translated) but I was a huge fan of "Famous Five" and similar adventure stories for older children that were still hugely popular in the early 1980s when I read them in German translation. Apparently the 1940s-50s world of British boarding schools and camping holidays had the proper mix of "distance" and familiarity to make them attractive, despite the repetition of tropes and improbabilities being transparent to a 9 year old after a bunch of books. I didn't mind, it was still my dream to meet the Famous Five as a sidekick on one of their adventures... ;)

Read my first Blyton in the infant class at primary school. This was the 60s. Remember the book as clear as day. It was magical. I wanted the life of the characters. AA should write a based children’s book.

Infuriating, the depths they are willing to sink to is shocking some times.

Just in time ! I have a daughter on the way in two months I'll have to start collecting these.

Wonder if we'll get a video on Richmal Crompton? A few of the William books have been censored too, since the 80s.

Cozy

Had no idea she was hated by the establishment but that makes sense now. Liking the new vid format but missing the slop.. 😒

"Insel der Abenteuer" was the first book I read of her. I remember nothing of the content even though I presented the book in school. But I remember well the love I felt for Blytons books.

I can vividly recall parts of her stories that i have not read for over 30 years. Mr Twiddle, Shadow the Sheepdog and The family at Red Roofs instantly came to mind.

What a badass.

Wtf female stephen king with balls.

inna eh

Oldest child

Let me hear it for the far away tree followed by the wishing chair (some of those adventures were legit terrifying!)
Also the bad news is my sister has saved all her books we ever bought and will be given to the grandchildren lol progress

Enid Blyton books were the the first things I became obsessed with collecting as a kid. I amassed over 100, slowly acquired from second-hand bookshops, garage sales, and occasionally a new edition if I saved up.
I loved the rich possibilities that every story presented - toys that came alive at night, pixies at the bottom of the garden, boarding school mischief, kids thwarting criminal activity, running away to the circus... my imagination was stimulated by everything, in all its idealistic vibrancy.
Blyton gave me a love for reading, a propensity to imagine, and a cognisance of moral imperatives.
She did not, on the contrary, render me racist, xenophobic, sexist or unintelligent.

Loved the parts when they ate, especially on camping trips by bicycle 🚲☘️❤️📚

This is the land of take-what-you-want, not the land of do-as-you-please!

I loved the magic faraway tree!..got my mum to read it over and over to me!

Got a little dusty in here remembering my dad reading us the Faraway Tree.

Is this dadism?

To what extent have the latest editions been edited? Is it just language changes, or have parts of the story and narrative been altered?

I never read any Blyton😢😢😢

Was poking around how to get unedited copies for my daughter and came across this gem on Reddit:

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I was obsessed with the Famous Five as a kid, and tried reading my old favourite to my children a few years ago. (Five go to Smuggler's Top). We got as far as the butler Block being described as having "a queer shut face" and my kids died laughing, and that was that.
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never underestimate the power of a child's laugh

My favourite kids author and reading content to the kids (original versions and names of course)

What Enid Blyton seems to understand, and what many storytellers on the left do understand while many story tellers on the right do not, is the primary and primal focus of a narrative. I.e. who wins, who loses, and why.

Yes, arcs and archetypes are important, cohesion and immersion even more so, but, at the core, if you don't have a clear good guy, a clear bad guy (or a bad guy who becomes a good guy) and a narratively relevant justification, you're lost.

Something something Sargon's Game of Thrones video.

the enchanted wood was the first book i read independently at the age of six.

Sir, Sir,
Biggles next please

Noddy/Big ears was on BBC in 60s and we read Enid Blyton at school. By age 9-11 it was more Wind in the Willows, CS Lewis, Robert Louis Stevenson, Tolkien. PC didn’t begin to register until mid to late 70s.

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Loving the new format… That intro!