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Wishing Chair #1-3
The Wishing-Chair Collection
Whizz off on three magical adventures in one bumper book from the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton.
The Adventures of the Wishing- Chair: When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing: a chair that can fly and grant wishes! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some marvellous adventures – to a castle where they narrowly escape from a giant and rescue Chinky the pixie, to the Land of Dreams, and to a disappearing island!
The Wishing-Chair Again: Mollie and Peter are home for the holidays and they long to see their friend Chinky and their magic Wishing-Chair. Together they have wonderful adventures, but what happens when the Wishing-Chair is stolen and then gets its wings cut off by the naughty Slipperies?
More Wishing-Chair Stories: Mollie and Peter and Chinky the pixie have more amazing adventures on their Wishing-Chair. They find gold at the end of the rainbow, they meet brownies and they visit the Land of Wishes. Best of all they get to help Santa Claus deliver presents for Christmas!
Enid Blyton is arguably the most famous children’s author of all time, thanks to series such as The Wishing-Chair, The Faraway Tree, The Mysteries, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. Her fantasy books are among her most popular creations and they promise to enchant boys and girls for generations to come.
The Adventures of the Wishing- Chair: When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing: a chair that can fly and grant wishes! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some marvellous adventures – to a castle where they narrowly escape from a giant and rescue Chinky the pixie, to the Land of Dreams, and to a disappearing island!
The Wishing-Chair Again: Mollie and Peter are home for the holidays and they long to see their friend Chinky and their magic Wishing-Chair. Together they have wonderful adventures, but what happens when the Wishing-Chair is stolen and then gets its wings cut off by the naughty Slipperies?
More Wishing-Chair Stories: Mollie and Peter and Chinky the pixie have more amazing adventures on their Wishing-Chair. They find gold at the end of the rainbow, they meet brownies and they visit the Land of Wishes. Best of all they get to help Santa Claus deliver presents for Christmas!
Enid Blyton is arguably the most famous children’s author of all time, thanks to series such as The Wishing-Chair, The Faraway Tree, The Mysteries, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. Her fantasy books are among her most popular creations and they promise to enchant boys and girls for generations to come.
512 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Enid Blyton
5,132 books6,299 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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June 20, 2018
Enid Blyton was one of my favourite childhood authors - the Magic Faraway Tree stories being my all-time favourite of hers - but somehow I never did discover the Wishing Chair stories until I was all grown up with children of my own. I have had great fun reading these delightful stories to my kids, the stories so sweet and simple but highly imaginative and charming. My favourite part of reading them however has been the look in my five year old son's big blue eyes, all huge and sparkly with wonder, as he absorbs the words, and when he comes up with his own cute scenarios of where he would go if he had his very own wishing chair. The perfect bedtime story really, mellow enough that he doesn't get all hyped up before attempting to fall asleep but with enough adventure to keep him captivated.
February 2, 2019
Of course i loved it and everyone needs to read some enid blyton in their life, it's so imaginative and well crafted and i loved the big adventure at the end, but a few small gripes. When you compare it to the faraway tree series, it's structured to be really boring - especially book 3 - the kids were on holiday and waiting for an adventure.... Again and again and again. A little variety wouldn't have hurt. Considering that this is published as 1 book it really annoyed me that the illistration style wasn't consistent.
May 10, 2022
i have the bookset but one of the books dont fit in there anymore bc the pages expanded bc i read them one too many times
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August 9, 2011A classic book from an underappreciated author, who is the 5th best selling author worldwide, selling over 400 million books. Enid Blyton was writing fantasy stories in the 1940s/50s whilst keeping the morals of the day and without a trace of violence. Where would many of today’s authors be without her? How many of today’s writers were influenced by her as children. An author everyone should become familiar with. Why not make her books bedtime reading with your kids, they won’t miss the violence of today’s writers.
March 18, 2012
I wish I could read these books for the first time over and over again.
January 1, 2025
✧ ೃ༄*ੈ✩ 3 stars
"oh, peter, to think we've got a magic chair - a wishing-chair!"
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this book is an omnibus so it had three books in one, adventures of the wishing-chair, the wishing-chair again and more wishing-chair stories. mollie and peter are two children who go to an antiques store one day to look for a present for their mothers birthday, and end up leaving in a hurry with something much more than the thirty five pence they had to spend! they flew away by accident in a wishing-chair, and thus begins the series of adventures they have on the chair, including rescuing a certain pixie called chinky from a giants castle, who joins them on their adventures from then on.
the adventures they go on are super cutesy and they come across all sorts of things like witches, brownies, princes and princesses, not to mention the lands they explore, making friends and some enemies!
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so in the first book i was genuinely struggling to get though it. being a children's book the writing was just too simple, and there was no fluidity in the plot, it was just a short little adventure for each chapter. however the next two books were much better for me, the writing seemed a little more complex as opposed to the first book and their adventures spanned over a few chapters, so had more detail, which i liked. overall i enjoyed most of it but like i said it is a children's book so there isn't toooo much depth and you can't really 'get into it' since it's lots of short little adventures happening. also you can definitely tell how old this book is from the couple of comments made about girls and also from the name 'chinky' 😀.
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mollie - she's a super cute girl, very caring and kind most of the time but can be a little silly and not think too straight on occasion (although most of the characters do so which is how they get into their fixes)
peter - again he's a sweet boy, very protective of mollie which is cute, and comes up with some good ideas
chinky - he's a mischievous little pixie a lot of the time, but he is a good friend to the children and also is the one who gets them out of a lot of the situations they get into on their adventures due to his knowledge about magic
"oh, peter, to think we've got a magic chair - a wishing-chair!"
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this book is an omnibus so it had three books in one, adventures of the wishing-chair, the wishing-chair again and more wishing-chair stories. mollie and peter are two children who go to an antiques store one day to look for a present for their mothers birthday, and end up leaving in a hurry with something much more than the thirty five pence they had to spend! they flew away by accident in a wishing-chair, and thus begins the series of adventures they have on the chair, including rescuing a certain pixie called chinky from a giants castle, who joins them on their adventures from then on.
the adventures they go on are super cutesy and they come across all sorts of things like witches, brownies, princes and princesses, not to mention the lands they explore, making friends and some enemies!
. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. *
so in the first book i was genuinely struggling to get though it. being a children's book the writing was just too simple, and there was no fluidity in the plot, it was just a short little adventure for each chapter. however the next two books were much better for me, the writing seemed a little more complex as opposed to the first book and their adventures spanned over a few chapters, so had more detail, which i liked. overall i enjoyed most of it but like i said it is a children's book so there isn't toooo much depth and you can't really 'get into it' since it's lots of short little adventures happening. also you can definitely tell how old this book is from the couple of comments made about girls and also from the name 'chinky' 😀.
. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. * ✦ . ⁺ .⁺ ˚. *
mollie - she's a super cute girl, very caring and kind most of the time but can be a little silly and not think too straight on occasion (although most of the characters do so which is how they get into their fixes)
peter - again he's a sweet boy, very protective of mollie which is cute, and comes up with some good ideas
chinky - he's a mischievous little pixie a lot of the time, but he is a good friend to the children and also is the one who gets them out of a lot of the situations they get into on their adventures due to his knowledge about magic
August 24, 2019
Didn’t finish this got it from the library as I saw it on the shelf. Thought it was the enchanted wood, book as haven’t read that since I was a child... the wishing chair was an ok read but got to 100 pages and abandoned it. Was. Very much the same in short story’s.., know it’s a child’s book but it’s a fun lively read for a 7 or 8 years old child.
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August 22, 2024this book was everything to me as a child..
April 6, 2011
I recomend this to 8-11 because its adventurous. They go into a corner shop find a chair sit in it and it grows wings and it flys away to somewhere adventurous. They do not knoe where they are, they sit in the chair and wish to go home to there play room and the chair takes them home. Later on in the story they meet the windy wizard also they find a pixxie called Chinky.
January 9, 2014
Few writers for children come close to Blyton and the Wishing Chair stories are timeless favourites. I love reading them, enjoying the perfectly structured chapters and simple imagination just as much as my son enjoys asking for them and talking about what lands he would like to visit.
July 13, 2014
This was one of the first books I ever read when I was about 7-8, and i still remember it today! This was my all time favorite childhood book, and I used to go to bed early so I could read as many storys from it as possible! Would definitely recommend this book to children around that age!
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March 11, 2014All I can say is... My Childhood... This book just allows me to reminisce about my childhood, it is everything nice all in one gigantic book
April 20, 2014
Very trippy, but wonderful.
April 20, 2022
A classic collection of Enid Blyton tales for the imagination. They are somewhat dated in certain aspects however: for instance, there is quite a bit of talk and action around spanking. I can’t imagine that being received well nowadays, and would be seen as inappropriate. That aside, what child wouldn’t love their own playrooom which featured a magic chair where they could take off on all sorts of adventures? Peter, Mollie and their Pixie friend Chinky have many narrow escapes along the way as they zoom off to adventure. There is a wonderful scope of characters, from the sweet and helpful to the naughty and the downright nasty, greedy and selfish. All very human traits woven into pixies, brownies, witches, wizards and goblins. I do feel that many of the stories were too similar in their adventures and encounters, however, and in some cases were rather hackneyed. I did enjoy reading it nonetheless.
February 27, 2020
After some months using this as a bedtime read, I just finished reading this three-books-in-one to my three-year-old and it was a charming and memorable experience. It was a joy to go on adventures with Peter, Mollie, and Chinky and it was heartwarming to read something so full of innocence and happiness. Whilst the third book was a bit odd in that the drawings of the main characters—particularly Mollie—were done in an entirely different style to the two previous books. In general, this book is very much of its time and very English in culture: both of which appealed to me. As I'm feeling a teeny bit sad that the Wishing Chair stories have ended, I now look forward to reading much more Enid Blyton in future.
April 10, 2019
I think more 35 year olds should pick up the Wishing Chair or Enchanted Woods books to read in the summer. I thought I had outgrown it but apparently not. I only really picked it up because it was the only book at arms length and I do not go anywhere without a book. But by the time I was back from a long wait at the bank, I was hooked. I finished it by the next morning with my 10 year old son happy to discuss characters and stories with me. We have decided we do not like Mollie very much and the polite goblin was by far the worst.
May 14, 2023
As a kid, Enid Blyton's Wishing-Chair and Faraway Tree opened up my imagination, whisking me off to worlds of endless possibilities. While, as an adult, it's now easy to spot the gender stereotyping - Mollie always being the one who cries and needs comforting and looking after - the book still holds nostalgic charm. I loved revisiting the Land of Wishes, the Land of Dreams, the Land of Goodies and other quirky places!
June 15, 2025
My second favourite Enid Blyton re-reading didn't let me down! These books are like a warm hug and unlock so many childhood memories.
How awesome would a flying chair be?
The Wishing-Chair takes siblings Mollie and Peter, and Binky the pixie on some amazing adventures where they end up in no end of trouble. They even get to visit the lands at the top of The Magic Faraway Tree too!
Just as enjoyable today as it was forty five years ago.
How awesome would a flying chair be?
The Wishing-Chair takes siblings Mollie and Peter, and Binky the pixie on some amazing adventures where they end up in no end of trouble. They even get to visit the lands at the top of The Magic Faraway Tree too!
Just as enjoyable today as it was forty five years ago.
December 24, 2020
I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH. Even as a twenty year old, I dream and fantasize about the lands described here, and how everything is wacky and out of order and place. The magic in Enid Blyton's books never really go away for me, and I still hold the little details and people close to my heart. I love this series and the faraway tree series so much.
January 31, 2023
It's quite a short book but its so fun. I have read it more than a couple of times and i never get bored of it whereas that is really unusual for me because when i read a book or watch a film i usually prefer not to watch it again or read it again because it is boring but when i read this book i never get bored even though i could probably memorize it off heart
August 26, 2023
When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing, a chair that can fly and grant wishes! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some magical adventures to a giant's castle to rescue a new pixie friend, to the Land of Dreams, and to a disappearing island!
February 25, 2018
Read to my now ten year old when she was eight, now reading to her sister whom is now eight, with the little brother (6years) listening in. Lovely stories. You can see where JK Rowling got some of her ideas from...
December 9, 2019
I had all three Wishing Chair books in one, and I loved them all. I read them over and over, and got especially excited when the Faraway Tree (my favourite childhood book of all) characters were referred to!! Absolutely adored this book 🪑
October 10, 2024
My son and I enjoyed this tome. In my mind, it's not quite as good as the Magic Faraway Tree series but it definitely beats Brer Rabbit. My son feels it deserves more stars, but this is my Goodreads, gosh darn it.
October 9, 2018
I have read to page 98 💩.
November 3, 2019
3yo loves it. I was uncomfortable with some things which I wouldn't have thought about at all as a child
March 25, 2020
it was an amazing book
May 17, 2020
A childhood favourite, re-read aloud to my own children.
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December 23, 2020Still amazing after all these years
July 17, 2021
This one was my favourite as a child.Still is.
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