Blyton

Blyton is best known for the 21 novels in her “Famous Five” series, most of which have been adapted for television.

2009 October 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

Enid Blyton is another author who's constantly supported by the "at least she gets kids reading" line, but as a kid reading her books (given as presents) she made me violently NOT want to read because I found her depiction of girls and her plots stupid.

intertribal: People of the Book intertribal 2010

I'm not sure who it was that linked to this (possibly one of our mutual friends in a locked entry) but shewhohashope's deconstruction of The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton is a work of genius.

March Books 16) The Owl Service shewhohashope 2008

One paragraph that really made me laugh (because I identified with it so closely) was when Roxana's boys read story books by the English author End Blyton and dream of the food oft-mentioned in Blyton's books: Muffins, porridge, kippers, scones, steak and kidney pie, potted meat, dumplings.

Archive 2006-06-01 Nupur 2006

About the author: Blyton is the fifth most widely translated writer in the world, according to UNESCO’s Index Translationum Statistics.

2009 October 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

Enid Blyton is the Agatha Christie of children’s literature.

2009 October 10 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

I read the now heavily edited Enid Blyton extensively as a young child, and at no point did I ever associate Gollywogs with any racism.

Presto, change-o Roger Sutton 2009

This is the same thing that people say to defend Enid Blyton, another product of her time - "it doesn't matter, it's just for fun" or "it doesn't matter, it's just for kids".

hope I don't break my arm falling out of the treehouse intertribal 2010

This is the same thing that people say to defend Enid Blyton, another product of her time - "it doesn't matter, it's just for fun" or "it doesn't matter, it's just for kids".

intertribal: hope I don't break my arm falling out of the treehouse intertribal 2010

I also have far too many Enid Blyton books (over 100) in my parents 'loft.

kisobel: Objectives 2010 kisobel 2010