Comments on: ryan and the magic faraway tree

By: ryan and his birthday presents

ryan and his birthday presents — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:00:58 +0000

[...] you can see, he is posing with the book I gave him. Of course it was not voluntarily — my mom made him do that for the sake of this photo. Way [...]

By: wan2

wan2 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:33:00 +0000

i think you absolutely did the right thing. my bro and i grew up with enid blyton too. when i was older, my primary english teacher (who now holds a phd in english lit, gulp) said that it wasn’t good writing. she is a great teacher in every sense of the word, so i listened and stopped reading EB. but all the same, EB’s books are earnest, magical, exciting, and play a great part in developing a child’s imagination… and they’re definitely so much better than the airhead/violent nonsense in a majority of kids’ books these days.

ryan’s very lucky to have you!

By: Suertes

Suertes — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:55:49 +0000

You sound like the Grandma here heh heh heh…

By: Chen

Chen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:51:41 +0000

enid blyton is the woman to whom i owe imagination and a love of words.

but i still <3 harry potter

By: vincent

vincent — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:45:05 +0000

Those were pretty much the first books I started reading when I was a kid.

I used to borrow them from my school library and I read the entire collection. But I didn’t have anybody to discuss them with, so pretty much up until I was 12, I thought the author was Gnid Blyton because it sure looked like it on the book cover.

And up until I was 15, long after I stopped reading Enid Blyton, did I learn that Enid was a SHE not a HE.

But then again, up until recently when he died, I always though Sidney Sheldon was a woman.

By: VidaDomo

VidaDomo — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:47:45 +0000

Enyd Blyton’s Famous Five was definitely part of my childhood too…
One of the things that amazed me most from those books was reading that those kids were drinking ‘ginger beer’. How the hell could their parents allow them to drink beer before 18??? :D

By: kellster

kellster — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:40:30 +0000

omg. enid blyton! It’s the bomb. we all grew up with those..my first enid blyton books were the short stories compiled into one like ‘hole in her pocket; and other short stories..the entire collection.
and then I moved on to a big collection of Famous Five of course and Mallory Towers etc.
Naughtiest Girl in school was my fave too. OMGOMG ENID BLYYONNNNNNNN for the win

i still have majority of my enid blyton books at home hehee ut none can beat the Faraway Tree ! : ) Mr. moon Face hehehe

By: Pinky

Pinky — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:43:43 +0000

i LOVE enid blyton as well … first book i bought was the naughtiest girl in the school. keke. i LOVE the magic faraway tree & wishing chair series! The Mallory Towers & St Claire series made me wish i was in boarding school. :p thanks for this post suanie … brings back the good ole memories

By: Suanie

Suanie — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:26:57 +0000

to the idiot whose comment i deleted: don’t feel compelled to ever return to my blog no matter how long it has been, and go fuck yourself on the way out.

By: The Envoy

The Envoy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:15:04 +0000

Enid was my childhood staple read too.