The Enid Blyton Society

A small puzzle has arrived for Secret Seven Club Members.

Can you unscramble all the acronyms in the above letter?


Even Enid had a little trouble with the first one!

Just got time to try & answer the first one before I rush out....
YAMFA. I thought this would probably be 'You Are My Favourite Author'! I'll try the others when I return home tonight!

And we thought creative abbreviations and "text-speak" only really took off in the 21st century!!

I think I might have figured out the others, but I don't want to spoil it for you, Number 6, so I won't jump in yet.

I think I've worked them out too. I find Enid's puzzles quite good fun despite being several years over the target age!

I like the way Enid Blyton seizes the opportunity to prompt children to write to the BBC begging for her stories to be broadcast!

I'm fairly certain I've got the next two. I'm not so sure about the last one.

Anita Bensoussane wrote: I like the way Enid Blyton seizes the opportunity to prompt children to write to the BBC begging for her stories to be broadcast!

Never missed a trick, did she?

I think I've worked them out too.

Well done to everyone who unscrambled the letters!



Another little puzzle.

Who drew the above?
What were they used for?
When were they used?

Can anyone show an example of them in use?

No idea, but you've got me intrigued. It looks like a child trying out different combinations of his/her initials. Enid Blyton? Emily Bronte?

Anyone know the answer?

Hmmm. Enid occasionally drew her own sketches for her column in Teacher's World and so on... are these different versions of her initials that she used to sign her drawings?

So far no one on the facebook page has been able to identify the story or illustrator of the above pic - can you?

Like the book titles the picture is so generic that it could be any of them.

The illustrator looks like Burgess Sharrocks. He illustrated the last eight Secret Seven books, including some magazine serialisations.

Thanks Guys.We're starting to narrow it down a bit now!

Isn't it funny,if it was a Famous Five illustration I bet we'd get it very quickly!

hi , sorry not to have been around lately but have been under the docs and hospital with a sus[pected mini stroke . the consultant now thinks i didnt have a mini stroke but i have had to have a brain scan and one on my neck . the artery is a bit thick but not as bad as was first thought so am on medication. i have to go back to the hospital at end of may. its been rather scary and still a bit scared.
any more mysteries around? whats other members news?