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"The stories are inventive and fantastic and have continued to delight children. Like many of Blyton's books, they also provide an insight into a particular vision of mid-twentieth-century domestic life, which some modern readers find charming and others somewhat offensive as they choose to view it through a modern prism." - There is debate over Enid Blyton and whether she's racist/sexist/classist, this paragraph seems to have been written by a fan justifying her against these claims and is not particularly neutral. NeonDaylight 23:37, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Have they made a film or movie based on the books? I would love it if they did

There's a sort of cartoon series of programs about the three kids. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ladywitchthought (talk • contribs) 03:56, 25 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Updates/Trivia[edit]

Some of the information under 'Updates' is more suited to a 'Trivia' type heading (the references in V for Vendetta, Mr Whatshisname's real name as they are not related to the 'Political Correctness' updating of the books.

the faraway tree[edit]

I am looking for the older version of this book and The wishing chair series, I bought them for my daughter in the 70s, the were love and cherished, i now have a grandaughter who loves the stories, but there is not enough pictures in to days poor paper backs. Our books were large hard backs, beautifully ilustated.( I am sure we have them in the loft)I would like to purchased her own set.(-)- —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.7.211.188 (talk) 15:50, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Names[edit]

I see the message when trying to edit the article about the names. I agree that either set of names is acceptable, but presumably they should be consistent throughout the article. Is there a decision I've been missing as to which to go for? —Celestianpower ^háblame 14:12, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Updates, or revised editions[edit]

"In modern reprints, the names of some of the characters have been changed. ..."
"Entire passages of the original have been rewritten to remove references to fighting. ..."

Did Blyton prepare any revised editions? When were the revised editions first published? If not Blyton, what is known about who worked on them? --P64 (talk) 03:01, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth and fifth books[edit]

I created a page for Up The Faraway Tree, the fourth book in the series. Although very rare so little is out there, I did add a link to the Enid Blyton society. This was reverted to a redirect. (Currently, clicking on the fourth book in the series goes back to the main Magic Tree page.)

My motivation for creating this page is that, as a USER, I'd rather have some - ANY - information about this little-known fourth book than a redirect. (In which case, IMO, the link should be removed - why link to a page that just redirects instead of displaying what it purports to?)

To complicate things further, there's a FIFTH book that I only found out about today, released May 2022: "The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure by Jacqueline Wilson (2022)"

(This site also purports two more, I haven't had time to investigate the legitimacy of them yet: https://toppsta.com/books/series/6853/the-magic-faraway-tree Silky's Story by Jeanne Willis (2020) Moonface's Story by Jeanne Willis (2021))

I don't really want to go to the trouble of creating a new page (or three new pages??) only for them to be removed. TheFatJamoc (talk) 19:29, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]