Bedtime Stories

by Enid Blyton

A series of collections presented in fun and friendly packages. Beautifully illustrated in full-color, these wonderful stories are sure to be favorites with children to enjoy time and time again. All titles in the Bright Light Series have a built-in light so you can read in the dark or secretly under the covers at bedtime! This title contains lots of fun and imaginative stories from the Enid Blyton library; just the right length for reading at bedtime with the added built-in light which makes it fun to read in the dark. With charming stories about animals, fairies, toys, pixies and children, the book is filled with magic and adventure to capture the imagination of all young children.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1953

About the author

See 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

Reviews

[Kelly Ann]

This is an amazing book for children of all ages. The story I chose to review is The Wishing Hat. This story would be more suited to those in KS2 due to the vocabulary used and the length of the story. Te main character, Spillikins, takes a wizards hat by mistake and upon wearing it is able to make fantastic wishes. He is on his way to his friends house when he discovers this revelation and starts making greater wishes. I think KS2 children would be better suited to this story as they would have a better concept of magic and how these kinds of stories work. The illustrations are fun and as with all Blyton stories, is very enjoyable.

[Sana · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was a voracious reader as a child having entire series of "The Baby Sitter's Club", "Sweet Valley Kids", and "Sweet Valley High School", but nothing sparked my imagination like Enid Blyton. There were a few books of hers in circulation in the 1980's Pakistan, and I was probably the only girl (or maybe there was another) who knew about her. I would recommend her to anyone and everyone who liked reading and asked what I was reading. The way her short stories sparked my imagination impacted me more than I let on. They were parables like Disney animated movies in printed words and I would get lost in them for hours until my mother would call me for dinner. I would put Enid Blyton to the level of Roald Dahl and Dr. Suess. Check her out!!

[Indhira Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Duluuuu
Gwe punya satu bundel buku dongeng sebelum tidur,, yup a bedtime stories gitu...

ini salah satunya,

dan hobi banget baca buku ini..

Psstt.. buku ini hadiah lebaran dari Nyokap karena puasa gwe poll 1 bulan seharian penuuh.

makanya keinget terus ampe sekarang... :)

tekad gwe : akan membelikan buku2 sejenis buat anak2 gwe nanti.. hohohohoh :D

[Ambika · Rating 4 out of 5]

i think it is fantastic

[Soniachanderan]

I am looking forward to reading Enid blyton's series Once It's in my hand :)

[Anne Marshall · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lovely collection of stories.

[vicalicalic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Screw the stories, the illustrations are what I bought this again for😍

[Svetlana Nosyreva]

Every bedtime story By Enid Blyton is a little gem for kids and their parents. All of them have a special message to the young readers or listeners or English learners, an exceptional moral value and lots of kind humour. Really worth reading for present-day children who live in the highly advanced technological world. It's like a breath of fresh and gentle air for them. Little Miss Millikin is my favourite story to be read before Christmas. What a treat!

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some great stories. All with good lessons and morals to get the kids thinking. Another great collection of Blyton classics.

[Mireia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si hagués d'explicar la meva infantesa en llibres, Enid Blyton es trobaria a la base de tots ells, acompanyat de Tintín, la Penya dels Tigres i uns llibres on la protagonista es deia com jo. La sort de poder recordar títols de llibres infantils amb totes dues mans em fa pensar en com ens defineixen quan arribem a lectors adults (que no madurs, i al revés). I, tot i que ara m'acabo endinsant abans en la vida de l'autor que la seva obra, vaig trigar molts anys en saber si rere Enid Blyton s'hi amagava un noi o una noia. Ja veus que tanta tanta importància potser no en tenia.