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Stories of Magic and Mischief: Contains 30 classic tales
A selection of 30 magical and mischievous short stories by Britain's most beloved children's author - perfect for sharing at Halloween! Witches and pixies abound in this magical selection of thirty short stories, perfect for seasonal reading and sharing. With lots of humour and fantastic characters these classic tales are ideal for younger children being read to and for newly confident readers to read alone. Each story stands alone and is the perfect length for reading at bedtime or in the classroom.Enid Blyton remains one of Britain's favourite children's authors and her bumper short story collections are perfect for introducing her to the latest generation of readers.Read all of Enid Blyton's bestselling short story Springtime StoriesSummer StoriesHoliday StoriesSummer Holiday StoriesSummertime StoriesStories of Wizards and WitchesStories of Magic and Mischief Christmas TalesChristmas TreatsWinter Tales***Enid Blyton ® and Enid Blyton's signature are Registered Trademarks of Hodder and Stoughton Limited. No trademark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trademark and copyright owner.
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384 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 20, 2018
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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 14, 2022
4 stars.
Enid is the Queen of childhood storytime 💕
Enough said.
Enid is the Queen of childhood storytime 💕
Enough said.
August 19, 2020
A Lovely book for multiple bedtime stories in the Autumn.
October 3, 2022
What a delight it was to read this to my daughter. Looking forward to re reading it with my youngest when she’s a little older.
February 25, 2019
Read every day to my son and daughter and they love this book.
June 26, 2019
Always loved Enid Blyton
August 22, 2020
This book is a collection of 30 fascinating stories and as you may have already guessed from the title – the stories revolve around magic and mischief!
These tales are quite spooky too and everything is mish mashed !
The sly, naughty cat offers the moon to a foolish dog!
There’s a boy named Willie who doesn’t take care of his dog, Tinker, and so the boy is taken to a court for trial and turned into a dog to face the same treatment that he gave to Tinker!
All the stories in the book are very interesting and intriguing and I loved them as I could just get lost in my world of imagination!! I could actually imagine these characters and settings. Also I loved the names of the stories – Tell Tale , The Most Peculiar Knocker, The Whispering Pool, Fiddle De Dee’s Spell – to name a few. But my favourite title is Twinkle Gets Into Mischief because my sister's nickname is Twinkle and she is very naughty!!
I loved all the stories in this book as it has two fun and cool themes which are my preferred genre!
These tales are quite spooky too and everything is mish mashed !
The sly, naughty cat offers the moon to a foolish dog!
There’s a boy named Willie who doesn’t take care of his dog, Tinker, and so the boy is taken to a court for trial and turned into a dog to face the same treatment that he gave to Tinker!
All the stories in the book are very interesting and intriguing and I loved them as I could just get lost in my world of imagination!! I could actually imagine these characters and settings. Also I loved the names of the stories – Tell Tale , The Most Peculiar Knocker, The Whispering Pool, Fiddle De Dee’s Spell – to name a few. But my favourite title is Twinkle Gets Into Mischief because my sister's nickname is Twinkle and she is very naughty!!
I loved all the stories in this book as it has two fun and cool themes which are my preferred genre!
October 1, 2025
A nice magical collection of short stories by the great Enid Blyton. Even if the cover and the title reminds to Halloween season, there are no direct reference to the spooky season. There are a lot of pixies, fairies and gnomes stories, they are all funny and lovely but not even a little bit scary or in the mood for the spookiest month of the year. Some special mentions: I do like very much "The wrong side of the bed", "The talking shoes", "The inquisitive hedgehog" and "Peter Penny".
October 10, 2019
Read this for the first time recently and the stories are an absolute treat. They are full of whimsy, magic and childhood imaginings. Perfect as light reading to help us adults escape into a world of fairies, gnomes and wizards and forget about the real world for a bit.
Absolutely recommend for kids and adults alike, especially Blyton fans
Absolutely recommend for kids and adults alike, especially Blyton fans
November 6, 2020
This book took me a long time to finish! I think because they were smaller short stories so tended to read one at a time.
Not quite the Halloween-y Autumn read I was looking for, but it was special all the same.🍂💚
Not quite the Halloween-y Autumn read I was looking for, but it was special all the same.🍂💚
May 21, 2023
I love the book!!! It is so interesting!!! It’s about magic stories of pixies dwarfs wizards witches and etc ! Thank you Enid Blyton! The best book ever!!!
August 20, 2024
I enjoyed reading this. I read it to my niece as bedtime stories. The length of the stories was good for the purpose.
May 26, 2025
An interesting mix of short stories which the kids enjoyed.
October 1, 2023
This collection of stories is funny and full of magic and mischief. You will find characters so naughty and when you find these naughty characters you never know where they end up. Every naughty character will be taught a very funny lesson. Sometimes you will find witches trapping children and children flying on broomsticks!
Overall, I liked it since it was well-written and funny. The author's description of the character's nature is very visual. It will be so funny if you mimic some of them! Some characters get fooled so easily by a magic button! I would recommend this to anyone who likes magic and mischief. Mischief Makers, I think you should not be naughty anymore after you read this book!
I like this book and everyone should try to read this book to stop mischief-making from happening!
Overall, I liked it since it was well-written and funny. The author's description of the character's nature is very visual. It will be so funny if you mimic some of them! Some characters get fooled so easily by a magic button! I would recommend this to anyone who likes magic and mischief. Mischief Makers, I think you should not be naughty anymore after you read this book!
I like this book and everyone should try to read this book to stop mischief-making from happening!
November 2, 2023
Some of the stories were not original, like there's a retelling of Aladdin and the one about capturing the moon's reflection in a pail of water.
Audiobook performed by Joshua Higgott and Sandra Duncan.
Audiobook performed by Joshua Higgott and Sandra Duncan.
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