Bookstores and bakeries? Now that's what I call proper shopping! We'll have to go shopping together one of these days, Ming, I can see we'd have a great time!
[Ming:] School - who cares about it?!
No need even to whisper that dreaded S-word in the hols!
Anita
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
The page is well-written and nicely constructed. One thing I wasn't so sure about, though, was Enid's age being given as 84. You explained why you did that, but it does seem a bit misleading to me. Couldn't you simply have missed her age out altogether?
Also, did Enid Blyton really write over a thousand books? Usually we're told that she wrote around seven hundred, though it's impossible to give an absolutely accurate figure because she wrote so many booklets, magazines, articles, picture books etc, and her short stories were printed over and over again in different collections.
This is not really a criticism - just a query!
Anita
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
Anita Bensoussane wrote:Couldn't you simply have missed her age out altogether?
No, more's the pity.
Also, did Enid Blyton really write over a thousand books?
I took the info from the Book Listing - though I didn't actually count it! Perhaps we should write over a thousand novels, poems, short stories, magazines, booklets and plays?
Oh I see, so you have to put an age? Couldn't you put something like "ageless and timeless," or does it only accept figures?
The Book-Listing lists things like the Award Books and Famous Five annuals as individual books, which were compiled after Enid Blyton's death, so that makes the total look higher. Perhaps you could write something like, "Enid Blyton wrote over 700 books as well as contributing articles, stories and poems to numerous publications. She also wrote and edited two magazines - Sunny Stories and Enid Blyton's Magazine. " Anyway, that's only a suggestion.
Anita
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.
Anita Bensoussane wrote: It's hard to be precise about the number of books Enid Blyton wrote, though.
Anita
Absolutely impossible!! People always want to know the exact figure and we never will. It begs the question 'What do you call a book?' Does a six page leaflet of Noddy pictures with captions by Enid Blyton count as a book???
Whenever I get asked this question by the media, I just dodge it and start talking about the number of novels she wrote - and even this isn't straightforward - Noddy Library etc.
A vast majority of Enid's books are short story books and 95% of these stories had already been published in various magazines.
And how to undicovered books fit into the 'exact number' query. plenty more Birns books still to surface and the general public simply can't believe that there are still a number of Blyton books out there that we know nothing about still.
It all adds to the fascination of Blyton - but exact numbers - forget it!!
can anyone help?
what's the book called about the three little people who go on an adventure, and they meet mr saucepan man and the town where everything has to rhyme??
i'm sure enid wrote that. it's one of my favourite books of all time but i can't remember what it's called.
help!
The book is The Enid Blyton Book of Brownies, about Hop, Skip and Jump. They meet the Saucepan Man and several other strange and eccentric characters on their travels. And yes, they visit one land where it is necessary to "Speak in rhyme/All the time." A wonderful story!
Anita
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.
"There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books."
- E. Nesbit, The Wonderful Garden.