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The Faraway Tree #1-4
The Magic Faraway Tree Collection 4 Books Box Set Pack
Enid Blyton The Magic Faraway Tree Collection 4 Books Box Set New Cover Titles in the Set The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Folk Of the Faraway Tree, Up The Faraway Tree
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Published January 1, 2014
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Enid Blyton
5,214 books6,353 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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March 3, 2026
Despite reading pretty much everything else penned by Enid Blyton, due to inheriting my mum's and older sibling's books, I somehow missed this one as a kid. I am now reading it with my five year old as a bedtime story after she was given the set for Christmas. I can see why it is a classic! The adventures are offbeat and zany enough to keep your young reader's attention and invites you to come up with your own ideas about which land could appear at the top of the Faraway Tree next. The characters are fairly two-dimensional with more page space being dedicated to elaborate descriptions of the food they eat than character development, as is typical of many children's classics. My five year old is heavily invested, attempting to sneakily read ahead after lights out!
July 21, 2024
It was a lovely book one of my favourites I’ve actually read it multiple times and I still love it!
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March 23, 2025
It's perfect for Children to read.
September 3, 2021
Saucepan man.
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