Website Additions

[Fiona1986]

Just checked out the latest addition to the site - a review of Enid Blyton's Book of the Year by Terry Gustafson.

Has made me want to get out my copy and dip into it! I'm glad I happened to buy the Soper illustrated reprint of the book, I wasn't aware she wasn't the original illustrator.

[Katharine]

I didn't know that either. Now that means I've got to try and track down an original copy as well. Sadly my copy doesn't have a jacket, I think it dates from 1950.

[Chrissie777]

I have also added to the Famous Five section the titles in nine European languages - although several of the Italian titles are missing at present as is one Russian title.

The Russians read Enid Blyton??? That's great news!

[Poppy]

Enid Blyton is famous ALL over the world!

It IS great news!

[Tony Summerfield]

Over the past two weeks I have been adding and smartening up illustrations to some of the Birn Brothers' books in the forums. These are very scarce books and apart from the odd Society booklet it is unlikely that anybody will come across them in a hurry, so I thought it was important to have as good a record as possible in the Cave. I have just finished adding the eighteen colour plates to Playtime, which is one of the scarcest books that I have come across. If anyone is interested they can be seen here.

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[Eddie Muir]

Brilliant! What super illustrations. Thank you, Tony.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Thanks, Tony. Lovely vintage scenes, very colourful. Funny that Birn Brothers had published another book called Play-Time (with a hyphen!) in 1926.

[Daisy]

What a beautiful set of pictures - so bright and colourful. Thank you Tony for all your efforts.

[Julie2owlsdene]

Fabulous illustrations. I just love them all. Favourites are when Mummy comes into the hallway. What a great hallway that is. Very 20's. And the children playing with their whip and tops. I used to have a whip and top and we used to chalk the top and watch the colours merge as it spun.

Good work Tony.

[Tony Summerfield]

Perhaps I should have added to my post above that the stories here are the ones in Sports and Games which some may well have as a Society Booklet. This version was uncredited and what you can't tell from the illustrations is that it is a large book over a foot tall (that's a bit over 30 cms for our younger members!).

[Anita Bensoussane]

The illustrations must have been striking, being so big. I wonder what the book cost back in 1932 and how that compared to the price of, say, a loaf of bread.

[Courtenay]

What gorgeous illustrations! Good work, Tony.

[Moonraker]

Fabulous pictures evoking wonderful memories. Thanks, Tony. Great to see pictures from a 'real' illustrator!

[Tony Summerfield]

What can we look forward to in 2014? I have added a great may forthcoming books to the Cave over the past two days.

From Egmont - all cartoon covers!








Just a sample, plenty more in the Cave. When I have the energy I will do something for Bounty hunters!

[Courtenay]

Ooer... yuck. I'm sorry, but putting modern cartoony art on period literature like Enid Blyton's is just completely wrong (and I know there are many more examples than these that we've seen in recent years). Honestly, what'll they come up with next? Jane Austen illustrated by Quentin Blake??

(None of this is intended as a slur against all your great work in collecting all these covers for the Cave, Tony, don't worry.)