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The Red Story Book
# The Little Sewing-Machine
# A Surprise for Mother Hubbard
# Five Naughty Lambs
# Bong, the Dragon
# The Wooden Horse
# The Tricks of Chiddle and Winks
# The Two Silly Children
# The Cackling Goose
# The Boy Who Was Shy
# He Didn't Think
# In the Middle of the Night
# The Greedy Brownie
# One Good Turn Deserves Another
# Dickie and the West Wind
# The Grand Birthday Cake
# The Naughty Little Kitten
# A Real Game of Hide-and-Seek
# The Pixies' Party
# The Lost Key
# The Boy Next Door
# The Tale of Tibbles
# A Surprise for Mother Hubbard
# Five Naughty Lambs
# Bong, the Dragon
# The Wooden Horse
# The Tricks of Chiddle and Winks
# The Two Silly Children
# The Cackling Goose
# The Boy Who Was Shy
# He Didn't Think
# In the Middle of the Night
# The Greedy Brownie
# One Good Turn Deserves Another
# Dickie and the West Wind
# The Grand Birthday Cake
# The Naughty Little Kitten
# A Real Game of Hide-and-Seek
# The Pixies' Party
# The Lost Key
# The Boy Next Door
# The Tale of Tibbles
192 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1966
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About the author
Enid Blyton
5,214 books6,348 followersSee also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
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May 20, 2009
I have read this SO MANY TIMES. A wonderful collection!
June 7, 2014
It was all I expected and more! Love the older tales where everything doesn't always have a happy ending!
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