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Enid Blyton Collection: Five Minute Tales, Ten Minute Tales And Fifteen Minute Tales
OVER 90 STORIES IN ONE VOLUME
464 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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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
Da steckt schon viel Fantasie in diesen alten Geschichten. Leider auch sehr viel Moralkeule.
September 19, 2012
A collection of short stories. I selected: What an Alarm.
A dishonest pixie named Light Fingers took things from other people in the village. Everyone felt sure it was him but nobody ever managed to see him. A plan was devised so that he would be tempted into stealing a clock which the alarm was set for 12 0 clock. At this time Light Fingers would be at the market and when the alarm rang they would know he had stolen the clock.
A simple but fun story with a message
Age range 4 – 7
A suitable book to read to class or to have on the class bookshelf.
A dishonest pixie named Light Fingers took things from other people in the village. Everyone felt sure it was him but nobody ever managed to see him. A plan was devised so that he would be tempted into stealing a clock which the alarm was set for 12 0 clock. At this time Light Fingers would be at the market and when the alarm rang they would know he had stolen the clock.
A simple but fun story with a message
Age range 4 – 7
A suitable book to read to class or to have on the class bookshelf.
August 12, 2010
:-) really great book
October 16, 2012
Magical times, under the blankets with a torch. Stuff of all childhoods.
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