Enid Blyton Serialisation Guide - Short Stories & Novels

[pete9012S]

Many thanks to Tony for providing this comprehensive Serialisation List.
It includes both short Stories and novels, including dates published and is a very handy reference guide.

The highlighted story in yellow is the last Enid Blyton story ever serialised, Bravo Secret Seven in 1963:





Admittedly, not much on the list for all the Noddy Fanatics, but he does pop up on the list, albeit briefly!

Somebody recently asked about Bravo Secret Seven, which the last Enid Blyton story ever serialised.

[Fiona1986]

Really interesting to see what was serialised - and also what wasn't!

Why just the fifth Malory Towers book?

Why no Famous Five until #7, then every book from 14-19, skipping 20 then doing 21?

[Courtenay]

Thanks, Tony and Pete. Interesting to see Adventures of the Wishing-Chair was Enid's first serialised story to be published as a book — and that her readers had a more than 10-year wait for The Wishing-Chair Again!

[sixret]

This is a good info. Thank you, Pete and Tony.

[pete9012S]

Just been looking over this info again - it really is most helpful.
Would it be correct to say that this info never made it into The Enid Blyton Journal?

I am going to print it out and also convert it into a pdf for future reference.

[Katharine]

That looks very interesting/helpful Pete - did you find it in The Cave?

[pete9012S]

I think Tony kindly emailed it to me Katharine if memory serves me correctly!

[Splodj]

I presume Chucklers Weekly is the Australian magazine. So readers in Australia had an exclusive preview of Rat-a-Tat!

I wonder if some stories were abridged for serialisation.

[Tony Summerfield]

It is just one of dozens of 'anorak' files on my computer, most of which haven't been seen by anybody. I actually refer to this one myself quite often, although it annoys me that I never put the issue numbers for Sunny Stories and I have to go to another file to check that out.

It isn't in the Cave as it wouldn't fit anywhere, but I used it in Journal 26 back in 2005.

[Tony Summerfield]

I presume Chucklers Weekly is the Australian magazine. So readers in Australia had an exclusive preview of Rat-a-Tat!

I wonder if some stories were abridged for serialisation.

The answer to your second question here is that nothing was abridged at all (although the the Secret Seven books for Mickey Mouse were completely rewritten by Enid). If you look at the dates of the book publication you will see that apart from Chucklers Weekly all the serials started at an earlier date as the book was published after serialisation.

[Katharine]

By sheer coincidence, I've just read an article in Journal 6 by Norman Wright about the renamed SS story in School Friend.

[pete9012S]

It isn't in the Cave as it wouldn't fit anywhere, but I used it in Journal 26 back in 2005.

Aha!
I have that Journal - I'm guessing it was the article Serialisation (43)

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[Judith Crabb]

Yes, lists are beguiling and Tony's Serialisation List is a winner. I looked greedily through it see what I could recognize and was pleased that there were only a few surprises. One set of serialisations was absent. My mother subscribed to the 'New Idea' magazine in Australia in the 1950s, but there were some lucky children whose mothers took in 'Woman's Day'. Those children got a whole page of the magazine. 'Cut Out Here' was the instruction along the left hand margin of one leaf and then two folds and you got to make a jolly little eight page Enid Blyton book, titled 'Junior Woman's Day', illustrated too with tiny vignettes. In the three copies I have seen their contents are drawn from from Blyton's retelling of Robin Hood, Ancient Greece and The Knights of the Round Table. The earliest one is dated Aug. 8, 1955 and as well as telling the story of Excaliber has as centre-spread an episode from the picture serial 'Josie Click and Bun' beautifully printed in vibrant full colour. The latest of the three has a January 30, 1956 date.
I would love to know when the Blyton content started and finished. Maybe out there, somewhere in Australia is a collector of 'Woman's Day' who knows already.

[Tony Summerfield]

I have the details of Woman's Day and Home Magazine in my files. I must admit that I didn't realise that it was an Australian Magazine as I don't have any copies, but I do have a few of the cut-out pages which have Josie, Click and Bun in colour. I have details of 26 copies with Blyton content running from April 25th 1955 to January 30th 1956 - but there are gaps towards the end, so there may be more that I don't know about. There was nothing new, just previously published material from various sources.

The serialisation your are referring to was for The Little Tree-House, but it was only partial so I wouldn't have included it on my list. The original book had 184 frames, but this version only went up to 72 and then jumped to a final issue on September 5th that had frames 81, 85, 93 and 96. Frame 96 finished with the words 'Let's all wave good-bye out of the window!'

[pete9012S]

Fascinating posts Judith and Tony, thank you.

There's always something new to learn on this site.