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Brer Rabbit
The Brer Rabbit Collection
The fantastic bumper volume of classic stories from the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton.
Brer Rabbit will never learn! He loves to play jokes, tricks and set traps for his friends – but once in a while, they beat him at his own game! These timeless stories of the briar patch trickster are re-told in Blyton’s hugely popular and successful style.
This collection contains many Brer Rabbit stories from the books Enid Blyton's Brer Rabbit Book, Brer Rabbit Again and Brer Rabbit's a Rascal.
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. In these three Brer Rabbit stories, readers can enjoy all the magic, fun and adventure one can be guaranteed of when they open a Blyton classic.
560 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 4, 2012
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About the author
Enid Blyton
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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 16, 2020
I remember these being read to us at school when I was six xxx
June 16, 2020
My early intro to reading !
September 1, 2024
At this point in my life, I've read thousands of pages of children's stories to my son. At least a few hundred of them have been written by Enid Blyton, and generally, all parties involved have enjoyed them. With regards to the pages of this work, however, my son and I are of very different opinions. This may be one of the worst books I've ever read.
The relative dearth of ratings and reviews for this particular volume compared to other Blyton works probably speaks to the fact that the recently-published collection was an instant flop. This must be in part because it's some of Blyton's least inspiring writing, but also because of the completely absent editing. The text is full of typos. The stories are assembled in a way that creates all kinds of plot non-sequiturs. Many of the stories are repeated, albeit in slightly modified versions. It's terribly tedious to read.
You know what else is tedious? Reading the name of every character's names out loud repeatedly, because every character's name starts with Brer (at least most of them). Blyton also seems to have forgotten about the possibility of using personal pronouns, so there is little respite for the reader. At times, it feels like one is uttering an unending string of Brer Somethings.
The only small consolation I take from this experience is that trudging through 550 pages of this tome is the ultimate gesture of paternal love. I hope my son comes to appreciate it one day.
The relative dearth of ratings and reviews for this particular volume compared to other Blyton works probably speaks to the fact that the recently-published collection was an instant flop. This must be in part because it's some of Blyton's least inspiring writing, but also because of the completely absent editing. The text is full of typos. The stories are assembled in a way that creates all kinds of plot non-sequiturs. Many of the stories are repeated, albeit in slightly modified versions. It's terribly tedious to read.
You know what else is tedious? Reading the name of every character's names out loud repeatedly, because every character's name starts with Brer (at least most of them). Blyton also seems to have forgotten about the possibility of using personal pronouns, so there is little respite for the reader. At times, it feels like one is uttering an unending string of Brer Somethings.
The only small consolation I take from this experience is that trudging through 550 pages of this tome is the ultimate gesture of paternal love. I hope my son comes to appreciate it one day.
December 13, 2017
Brer Rabbit is once again using his wits to outsmart characters who use violence in these little tales of adventure and survival.
Blyton does well to keep the American feel of the stories she retells.
I enjoyed reading them with my husband and unborn baby but I do find some of the recurring themes monotonous.
I also personally had to stop reading the stories that had characters tying up or trapping, and then whipping other characters (massive triggers for me).
This took us months to read but it is only because we read one per night and there are 80 stories in the book.
Blyton does well to keep the American feel of the stories she retells.
I enjoyed reading them with my husband and unborn baby but I do find some of the recurring themes monotonous.
I also personally had to stop reading the stories that had characters tying up or trapping, and then whipping other characters (massive triggers for me).
This took us months to read but it is only because we read one per night and there are 80 stories in the book.
November 7, 2019
A Great Collection Of Stories From My Childhood, Especially Remembered For Being Featured In The Disney Film “The Song Of The South”.
No One Can Play Tricks Like Brer Rabbit
No One Can Play Tricks Like Brer Rabbit
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September 5, 2023
Enid Blyton's awesomeness has been passed down thru the family! was my fave as a child and now I'm educating my friends kids and he loves Brer Rabbit too
November 10, 2025
this rabbit was tuff as shit bro he didn't let anything get in his way
October 20, 2017
Brer Bear, Brer Fox and Brer Wolf deserve to be conned by Brer Rabbit, because they are so gullible. I laughed so much at the ingenious tricks and scams Brer Rabbit uses on them in these stories! Brain is better than brawn, and Brer Rabbit is my all time hero!
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