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Wishing Chair #1-2
The Magical Adventures of the Wishing Chair
The Adventures of the Wishing Chair, The Wishing Chair Again
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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Enid Blyton
5,130 books6,332 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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May 15, 2021
These books are the reason I'm a reader today. I barely remembered the writer or the story but I could never forget the wishing chair. A highly recommended book for children. Please buy this for your children and let them wander in the world of magic that Enid Blyton has weaved for them.
June 21, 2017
*3.5 stars*
Magical Winged Chair takes two kids to various insanely specific and weird "lands". Shenanigans ensue.
Despite being plagued by Card Carrying pseudo-villains and black and white morality, the Wishing Chair series manages to be interesting simply because of the inventiveness of the setting(s). I am still waiting for the day when someone hands me a house in the land of goodies; ice cream cones growing on bushes sounds like heaven. //i'm totally with Molly on this one.
Magical Winged Chair takes two kids to various insanely specific and weird "lands". Shenanigans ensue.
Despite being plagued by Card Carrying pseudo-villains and black and white morality, the Wishing Chair series manages to be interesting simply because of the inventiveness of the setting(s). I am still waiting for the day when someone hands me a house in the land of goodies; ice cream cones growing on bushes sounds like heaven. //i'm totally with Molly on this one.
February 3, 2021
I absolutely loved reading this as a child, and well into adulthood. Now, I am really looking forward to sharing these stories with my son.
May 10, 2024
The wishing chair series>>>>
October 23, 2017
This is one of the first books that I read entirely and really enjoyed
March 11, 2019
I love the book
September 26, 2019
Brings back my childhood
February 10, 2017
Well, we read the first few chapters until boy got scared and we had to stop… A story about a magic chair that grows wings and transports you to magical lands, I remember loving this as a kid, but as I was reading it back, it was more creepy and scary than I remembered, and unfortunately was too much for my tender-hearted six-year-old boy. He loved The Enchanted Wood, but this was too much.
I think he’ll love it in a year or two, but right now I’m on the hunt for well-written, well-plotted, non-silly children’s stories that have minimal peril.
I think he’ll love it in a year or two, but right now I’m on the hunt for well-written, well-plotted, non-silly children’s stories that have minimal peril.
October 26, 2015
The Wishing Chair
Reading The Wishing Chair gave me a lot of excitement. It's an Enid Blyton book and one of my favorite. I was so much into this book that I forgot every single thing happening in this world. It's about a wishing chair. A wishing chair that will take you anywhere you want. When Molly and Peter found this chair they were really amazed. They went to a castle and found a pixie named Chinky who had no friends. All three of them had a crazy adventure. It didn't give much detail, but you could understand the book. It was a very short book but had a very interesting and a different story. There were funny, horrible and magical things happening. In the starting it felt boring but later on it was fantastic. Even though these books don't happen in real life, I could imagine as if it was actually happening.There was also a lot of suspense in the story which won't make you stop reading the book. I will never forget this book.
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Reading The Wishing Chair gave me a lot of excitement. It's an Enid Blyton book and one of my favorite. I was so much into this book that I forgot every single thing happening in this world. It's about a wishing chair. A wishing chair that will take you anywhere you want. When Molly and Peter found this chair they were really amazed. They went to a castle and found a pixie named Chinky who had no friends. All three of them had a crazy adventure. It didn't give much detail, but you could understand the book. It was a very short book but had a very interesting and a different story. There were funny, horrible and magical things happening. In the starting it felt boring but later on it was fantastic. Even though these books don't happen in real life, I could imagine as if it was actually happening.There was also a lot of suspense in the story which won't make you stop reading the book. I will never forget this book.
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August 19, 2012
I love Enid Blyton. All different kinds of stories from her. I read these two to my 3 year old as bedtime stories. We both really enjoyed it. There are a lot of little stories built into the larger ones, so it's easy to read 1, 2, or 3 (occassionally 4) chapters and finish up that particular adventure. Something I enjoy about reading these to my girl is 1) the differences in British literature from American and 2) the difference in time (boarding schools, nurses, a gardener at your house, etc.). I changed a few words as I was reading it to make it a bit easier for her to keep up with, but overall we both really enjoyed the time we spent in these books.
June 28, 2014
Am giving this 4 stars because my children, aged 6 and 3, loved it. Every chapter was a complete adventure, so great for bedtime. And every night they pleaded for a second chapter. Lots of pixies and elves. Some of the language is quite archaic though. I was reading aloud to them so could modernise a lot of the exclamations and stuff. But now my daughter keeps saying, 'Isn't that queer?' instead of weird/strange.
July 1, 2009
The kids had loved the other Wishing Chair books so much that I thought I'd keep the Blyton ride going!
This one was slightly darker in feel with longer stories, but still tinged with an olde worlde feel, which didn't bring it alive for me. Some things are kept best as memories, but my kids still loved it.
This one was slightly darker in feel with longer stories, but still tinged with an olde worlde feel, which didn't bring it alive for me. Some things are kept best as memories, but my kids still loved it.
May 20, 2019
Enid Blyton delivers in this fantastical adventure where Mollie and Peter discover a chair that can fly and grants their wishes. It takes them to faraway magical lands. Great imagination. The kids in the story get whisked away by a chair that grows wings and takes them to strange, fun places. I enjoyed reading these stories to my girls.
September 24, 2013
I got this book as a present on my 9th birthday. I had already read it several times before but I was delighted that now I had my own copy, simply marvellous book- suitable for all ages who have a bit of imagination in their heads waiting to be set free :D
May 27, 2014
Loved it, took me back to my childhood. I stumbled across this on ebay whilst looking for something else. I ordered it because I loved the magic faraway tree etc when I was younger and had never heard of the wishing chair. Will keep to pass on to my children, can't beat an Enid Blyton book!
August 11, 2015
I did not like this book. This book did not grip me whilst reading it. I have read other Enid Blyton books but this book was not the same. For example in 'The Faraway Tree', the adventure lasted longer. This did not happen with this book very much and it left me disappointed.
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May 7, 2010
Great boook
super story and an Enid Blyton Special.
Love it !
super story and an Enid Blyton Special.
Love it !
October 22, 2010
fantastic series, i loved these, they were really good :) a great read for anyone who wants to escape into a magical land on a magic wishging chair
February 17, 2013
A collection of stories about two children going on magical adventures on a magic, flying chair. They have immense amounts of fun. A great book for young readers.
April 30, 2013
Such an amazing story!!!!!! A true page turner!!!!! 5 stars!!!!
June 2, 2015
Enjoyed it when I read it in my childhood !!
October 17, 2013
Wasn't as good as the faraway tree series but still pretty awesome nonetheless. Enid Blyton was a master of the genre.
October 8, 2014
Brilliant! my very first fat novel as a child.
July 13, 2016
I really want to give this book 3.5 but I can't! I normally like books with magic folk so this was good but not as good as The Faraway Tree series.
(Review by Maya, age 8, Rebecca's daughter.)
(Review by Maya, age 8, Rebecca's daughter.)
November 22, 2015
I loved these books as a kid. I would read them over and over again in old school hardback.
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