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Bicycle Magic And Other Stories
The best Of enid Blyton In HardBoud Format and UK edition by award publishers
192 pages, Hardcover
First published September 25, 1994
About the author
Enid Blyton
5,234 books6,411 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 1, 2023
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I highly recommended Enid Blyton to everyone of any age.
Title: Bicycle Magic and Other Stories
Author: Enid Blyton
From: Uncle for my Birthday
Pages: 192 Pages
Price: Hardback £5.99
Stories: 15 stories
Genre: Fiction and Other Stories
The stories (SPOILERS):
Bycicle Magic Description:
Bycicle magic is about a pixie, wriggles who is fed up with the town theif, slippery-one. So one day wriggles and his pixie friend Derry make a plan. Wriggles will turn Derry into a bicycle and when slippery-one steals it, Derry the bicycle will bring him to Mr Grim the police man. It works!
The Wish That Came True Description:
Pippy and Flip were flying there big kite when their mother calls them for dinner. Their mother says to put the kite down but looking at how high the kite is they say no. Secretly they tie the kite to their mothers lovely garden chair. The strong wind blows the kite and chair and it ends up in old Dame See-saw garden. Later mother takes them for a meet up at old Dame's. Everyone knows you cant get what you lost back from old Dame.
The Balloon Pipe description:
Have you ever wondered where balloons come from? Tiny the elf loved blowing bubbles with his balloon pipe but was sad that they popped after a while. Tiny comes across the pixie that paints glue on chestnut bud for winter. Tiny tells Pixie about his troubles and they work together to make tame bubbles. They are quite popular amouncst village folk now.
Silly One and The Jews Description:
Silly one gets jewels from Granny slow-foot. Granny gave them to him and told him to be responsible. Silly one want to hide them so looks for his woodland friends but Silly ones friends tells him they are in hibernation. Silly one hides them on a tree. Silly one want to get the jewels back later so he looks for the tree but it is autumn and no leaves. With pretty jewels like that someone stole them.
The Brownie Biddles Boots:
Biddle has marvelous boots but the sneaky twins Tick and Tock steal his boots. The boots and twins fight. Comeidic and desperate the boots finally get the naughty twins to bring them back to Biddle. Gosh were the twins in trouble.
Now then, busy body!:
Busy body is desperate to see what is in his new neighbors magic room. He gets caught but strikes again. Things were very clean. Busy body learns not to sneak around in a painful way. Madam Soapsups magic room was a magical laundry room!
Little Shaving Brushes:
Prince brown-eyes goes on a journey to see princess blue-eyes. On the way he want to look good for her he forgot his razors! He discovers a new plant that acts as a perfect razor. The plant was called groundsel and if he planted one of the little grey-white shaving-brushes in the ground, a whole plant would come up and bear the shaving-brushes he so much liked! Prince Brown-eyes and Princess Blue-Eyes get married.
Mr Storm-Around:
Mr storm-around was a upset person. He disliked the snow and frozen water. He made the villagers work to clear it all up. Keeky the magician got Mr Storm-around to hide away out of the village.
He bought a secret:
Sharp eye tries to trick Gobbo and Whiskers but ends up getting tricked himself and in trouble.
The rub away flannel:
Meanie works for balloon woman and one day finds a flannel. Balloon woman told him to throw it away but secretly he keeps it. Meanie finds out its a rub away flannel! It can rub away anything! Meanie uses it wrongly to hurt others. One day Meanie accidentally rubs himself away!
It's going to rain!:
Weather man accidently fell on a flower on his path. The poor flower Pimpernel is cursed. Pimpernel can tell the future weather. Pip and Twinkle come along and don't believe Pimpernel. But she is right and Pimpernel is so sad with the state of herself because of the damaging rain. Pip and Twinkle take Pimpernel to their house where Pimpernel is safe and Pip and Twinkle always know when to take a umbrella.
Billy and the Brownie:
Billy goes on his car when he bumps in to brownie who is too late since his bus went early. How will the brownie get his shopping done today? Billy was kind enough to help. The brownie takes Billy to the marvelous shopping square where the brownie will shop. Billy is patient but while waiting he noticed a wonderful sweets shop Jiminy sweets (is the best thing you can ever read about in this book!). The brownie bought Billy sweets as a thank you!
Somebody came to the door:
Goerge and Anna are talking about their farm house with daddy. The talk about the olden days when they had a dairy room now was their playroom. They got to play and there is a knock it is a brownie! The brownie is very upset he didn't get his weekly cream. The brownie hasn't been in the farmhouse for 100 years since he was captured by a witch. Mum and Dad don't believe them. The brownie upset their playroom but Anna and Goerge capture him. What should they do with him?
The Tale of lankey-pankey:
The queens silver-service has gone missing someone stole it. The 5 clever imps plan to steal it back they tower on eachother and are able to steal it back from Spindle-spanks.
Slip-arounds wishing wand:
The wise wizard is making a special potion but needs a daisy that opens to moonlight. Slip around the brownie hears this and says he can get it for the wizards wishing wand. The wizard agrees and Slip around goes. Slip around doesn't know about a daisy that opens to moonlight so he glues a normal daisy to stay open. With that he gets the wishing wand and sings loudly in the middle of the night. All the villagers come out and complain which make Slip around wish horrible things apon them. The wizard finds out and wishes all the bad stuff Slip has wished to go to Slip himself.
I highly recommended Enid Blyton to everyone of any age.
Title: Bicycle Magic and Other Stories
Author: Enid Blyton
From: Uncle for my Birthday
Pages: 192 Pages
Price: Hardback £5.99
Stories: 15 stories
Genre: Fiction and Other Stories
The stories (SPOILERS):
Bycicle Magic Description:
Bycicle magic is about a pixie, wriggles who is fed up with the town theif, slippery-one. So one day wriggles and his pixie friend Derry make a plan. Wriggles will turn Derry into a bicycle and when slippery-one steals it, Derry the bicycle will bring him to Mr Grim the police man. It works!
The Wish That Came True Description:
Pippy and Flip were flying there big kite when their mother calls them for dinner. Their mother says to put the kite down but looking at how high the kite is they say no. Secretly they tie the kite to their mothers lovely garden chair. The strong wind blows the kite and chair and it ends up in old Dame See-saw garden. Later mother takes them for a meet up at old Dame's. Everyone knows you cant get what you lost back from old Dame.
The Balloon Pipe description:
Have you ever wondered where balloons come from? Tiny the elf loved blowing bubbles with his balloon pipe but was sad that they popped after a while. Tiny comes across the pixie that paints glue on chestnut bud for winter. Tiny tells Pixie about his troubles and they work together to make tame bubbles. They are quite popular amouncst village folk now.
Silly One and The Jews Description:
Silly one gets jewels from Granny slow-foot. Granny gave them to him and told him to be responsible. Silly one want to hide them so looks for his woodland friends but Silly ones friends tells him they are in hibernation. Silly one hides them on a tree. Silly one want to get the jewels back later so he looks for the tree but it is autumn and no leaves. With pretty jewels like that someone stole them.
The Brownie Biddles Boots:
Biddle has marvelous boots but the sneaky twins Tick and Tock steal his boots. The boots and twins fight. Comeidic and desperate the boots finally get the naughty twins to bring them back to Biddle. Gosh were the twins in trouble.
Now then, busy body!:
Busy body is desperate to see what is in his new neighbors magic room. He gets caught but strikes again. Things were very clean. Busy body learns not to sneak around in a painful way. Madam Soapsups magic room was a magical laundry room!
Little Shaving Brushes:
Prince brown-eyes goes on a journey to see princess blue-eyes. On the way he want to look good for her he forgot his razors! He discovers a new plant that acts as a perfect razor. The plant was called groundsel and if he planted one of the little grey-white shaving-brushes in the ground, a whole plant would come up and bear the shaving-brushes he so much liked! Prince Brown-eyes and Princess Blue-Eyes get married.
Mr Storm-Around:
Mr storm-around was a upset person. He disliked the snow and frozen water. He made the villagers work to clear it all up. Keeky the magician got Mr Storm-around to hide away out of the village.
He bought a secret:
Sharp eye tries to trick Gobbo and Whiskers but ends up getting tricked himself and in trouble.
The rub away flannel:
Meanie works for balloon woman and one day finds a flannel. Balloon woman told him to throw it away but secretly he keeps it. Meanie finds out its a rub away flannel! It can rub away anything! Meanie uses it wrongly to hurt others. One day Meanie accidentally rubs himself away!
It's going to rain!:
Weather man accidently fell on a flower on his path. The poor flower Pimpernel is cursed. Pimpernel can tell the future weather. Pip and Twinkle come along and don't believe Pimpernel. But she is right and Pimpernel is so sad with the state of herself because of the damaging rain. Pip and Twinkle take Pimpernel to their house where Pimpernel is safe and Pip and Twinkle always know when to take a umbrella.
Billy and the Brownie:
Billy goes on his car when he bumps in to brownie who is too late since his bus went early. How will the brownie get his shopping done today? Billy was kind enough to help. The brownie takes Billy to the marvelous shopping square where the brownie will shop. Billy is patient but while waiting he noticed a wonderful sweets shop Jiminy sweets (is the best thing you can ever read about in this book!). The brownie bought Billy sweets as a thank you!
Somebody came to the door:
Goerge and Anna are talking about their farm house with daddy. The talk about the olden days when they had a dairy room now was their playroom. They got to play and there is a knock it is a brownie! The brownie is very upset he didn't get his weekly cream. The brownie hasn't been in the farmhouse for 100 years since he was captured by a witch. Mum and Dad don't believe them. The brownie upset their playroom but Anna and Goerge capture him. What should they do with him?
The Tale of lankey-pankey:
The queens silver-service has gone missing someone stole it. The 5 clever imps plan to steal it back they tower on eachother and are able to steal it back from Spindle-spanks.
Slip-arounds wishing wand:
The wise wizard is making a special potion but needs a daisy that opens to moonlight. Slip around the brownie hears this and says he can get it for the wizards wishing wand. The wizard agrees and Slip around goes. Slip around doesn't know about a daisy that opens to moonlight so he glues a normal daisy to stay open. With that he gets the wishing wand and sings loudly in the middle of the night. All the villagers come out and complain which make Slip around wish horrible things apon them. The wizard finds out and wishes all the bad stuff Slip has wished to go to Slip himself.
February 21, 2018
I feel Enid Blyton always end the stories the same way with a question.
February 17, 2011
I liked the stories in this one better than the ones in the other book. Not all of them though, some were pretty boring. It was more interesting cuz their stories were longer and contained lots of magic!
I also liked how it gives chance to let our imagination go wild!
Turning people into bicycle, a handkerchief that turns everything it touches invisible, objects moving trying to ki- hurt you badly.. those kind of things, fun things!
It taught me an important lesson: Don't EVER throw old shoes in the trash, it WILL hunt you down! ((joke!))
I also liked how it gives chance to let our imagination go wild!
Turning people into bicycle, a handkerchief that turns everything it touches invisible, objects moving trying to ki- hurt you badly.. those kind of things, fun things!
It taught me an important lesson: Don't EVER throw old shoes in the trash, it WILL hunt you down! ((joke!))
June 17, 2023
I loved this book
March 29, 2008
This book contains multiples of short stories.All of the stories were about elves and fairies,and were about helping people except one is about stealing from other people.
I learnt that stealing is wrong and to live peacefully, we must help each other and do not fight.
I learnt that stealing is wrong and to live peacefully, we must help each other and do not fight.
January 6, 2013
it was intresting.......................
April 2, 2008
It was a fantastic book with lots of puntuations.
April 4, 2009
always love her books!
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