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Treasury of Verse

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Always a book worth having - its quite a big book - annual size - with dust wrapper, and full of Enid's poems, with beautiful illustrations. Late 1970's.

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I've got that book and the illustrations are superb. Well worth having.
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Enid Blyton's Treasury Of Verse 1979 - Excerpt

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Copies available under £3 inc postage on ebay when I looked this morning!

Here's some snowy excerpts from this lovely book:
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Thanks for that, Pete. 'Fairy Snow' and 'Jack Frost' are two of my favourite Enid Blyton poems, beautifully expressed and imaginative.

My copy of Enid Blyton's Treasury of Verse has picture boards and no dustwrapper. I love the cover, which is the same as the dustwrapper shown above, but of course I don't have the "flaps" so I hadn't seen the information on those before. The publishers have named Real Fairies as Enid Blyton's first book when it ought to be Child Whispers, but overall they give a refreshingly positive account of her talents and achievements. I wonder whether Gillian Baverstock, who wrote the introduction, also helped compile the other information?
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Thanks for posting the information, Pete. The cover is superb. :D
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Yes - interesting, Pete! I don't have a dust wrapper version either, as mine is the printed boards version, so I hadn't read the flaps either. :-D I love how they say 'during her lifetime she wrote over 400 stories'...! Presuming they mean over 400 short stories, I would have said that was a vast underestimation! Must be well over 1,000 surely!! :-D
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Here are 'the flaps' for the casual viewer.
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I've seen these a few times but haven't got a copy yet. They seem to vary a lot in price, there was one for £1.55 with free postage a while back and I've also seen it at the over £30 mark! I love the cover on this book, it's wonderfully drawn and I have a soft spot for harvest mice as I used to keep them.
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