Random words to Blyton Worlds

[Anita Bensoussane]

Book: In The Sea of Adventure, Jack takes some pictures of the birds on the cliffs and Bill says, "You'll have to have a book of bird photographs published. Masterpieces, by Jack Trent, price thirty shillings." Jack replies, "I'd like that. Not the thirty shillings I mean - but having a book about birds with my name on it."

Chimney:

[Lucky Star]

Chimney: Chimney Corner Stories. A delightful collection of short stories that I seem to have managed to buy three times.

Stone.

[Rob Houghton]

Stone: The 'lucky stone' which features in a short story of the same name, in 'Boys and Girls New Chronicle Number 3 -



It's an amusing story about a man who has a day filled with luck because he has a lucky blue stone in his pocket. He throws the stone away at the end - after selling a donkey to a king for £100. So the stone is somewhere waiting to be found again!

Broomstick

[Daisy]

I wonder if it will help if a list of used words is displayed every so often to save scrolling back?

Words used so far:
Sword, rubber, tea, white, kettle, explosion, cat, circus, sandwich, orange, ice, sand, box, evening, trunk rocks, donkey, crow, candle, willow, castle, trees, cup, bed, train, music, knife, pencil, trapdoor, book, chimney, stone, broomstick

[Anita Bensoussane]

A good idea, Daisy - if people manage to keep it up!

Broomstick: The broomstick which is made bigger using magic ointment in The Enid Blyton Book of Brownies.

Rope:

[snugglepot]

Rope: - The rope Barney uses to climb up into the old house in Rockingdown Mystery.

Painting

[Courtenay]

Painting: The painting of the stormy sea and high cliffs in Banshee Towers, in which first Ern and then Bets notice something strangely missing...

Song:

[Daisy]

Song: From the same book - the "coo" song Ern sings as they cycle along.

Mountain:

[Courtenay]

Mountain: ... of Adventure, look you, whateffer!

Light:

[Rob Houghton]

Light: The light shone from many a tower on many a stormy (or calm!) night - in books like Five Go To Smuggler's Top, Secret of Spiggy Holes, and many, many more!

Seagull:

[Lucky Star]

Seagull: Thousands of them flying around the cliffs in The Sea of Adventure.

Rotten:

[Anita Bensoussane]

Rotten: In the story 'Granny's Bad Apple', Denis ignores a tiny bruise on one of the apples which he's storing in the loft. Months later, the apple has become "rotten from top to bottom" and has also turned nineteen other apples bad around it. Granny draws parallels with a boy named Sammy who is a negative influence on others, and Enid Blyton finishes the tale with an appeal to the reader: "Are you a good apple? I hope so!"

Fair:

[Rob Houghton]

Fair: Rilloby Fair - the first Barney book I ever bought, for 10p with a dust wrapper from a school jumble sale was 'The Rilloby Fair Mystery'. One of my favourite Barney books!

Ball:

[Courtenay]

Ball: "The Lost Golden Ball" from The Enid Blyton Book of Fairies — a particularly heartwarming story about an ugly and lonely gnome who finds a friend and a new calling in life (as well as the lost ball) in, of all places, London's own Hampstead Heath!

Giant:

[Daisy]

So far:
Sword, rubber, tea, white, kettle, explosion, cat, circus, sandwich, orange, ice, sand, box, evening, trunk rocks, donkey, crow, candle, willow, castle, trees, cup, bed, train, music, knife, pencil, trapdoor, book, chimney, stone, broomstick, rope, painting, song, mountain, light, seagull, rotten, fair, ball, giant,