Personal Gems From The Cave Of Books
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I think White Lion books mostly went to libraries. I do have a number of Malcolm Saville books published by them, but I would love to know if any more of that Blyton Story Book series were done by them. I think perhaps Jack-in-a-Box rather than Clown, Rob!
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Thanks for the info Tony & Rob.Collecting Enid's books feels like peeling the layers off an onion!
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I remember White Lion Books from my working days, they were a reprint company producing books primarily for libraries. We had the Happy Story Book in the library I worked in at the time, I don't remember seeing any other books in that series in White Lion editions. White Lion published reprints of adult novels and non-fiction works as well as children's books.
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NODDY'S TALL YELLOW BOOK
http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... ellow+Book" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;First edition: 1960
Publisher: Sampson Low
Illustrator: Robert Tyndall
Category: Noddy Tall Books
Genre: Fantasy
Type: Strip Books
Not sure if all the contents of this one would get past the censors today?
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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The Smelly Little Dog - untraced story
This title made me curious. As usual the cave lists its appearances over the years in various formats. Its title seems to contain the only use of the word smelly used in a title by Enid Blyton?
Anyone read it - or can hazard a guess at what era it may have been written in?
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The Smelly Little Dog - untraced story
This title made me curious. As usual the cave lists its appearances over the years in various formats. Its title seems to contain the only use of the word smelly used in a title by Enid Blyton?
Anyone read it - or can hazard a guess at what era it may have been written in?
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I've just read 'The Smelly Little Dog', Pete, and it's about a stray dog which befriends children on a beach. I wonder if the story had appeared under a different title earlier?
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It sounds like a few stories I've read recently about stray dogs on the beach - but maybe this was a completely different story. Enid seemed to write a few!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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Thanks Anita and Rob. I wondered by reading the story if you could guestimate what decade/era it likely hails from?
Enid certainly did write a fair number of dog stories didn't she!
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Enid certainly did write a fair number of dog stories didn't she!
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It's hard to judge the decade, Pete, as it's a pretty timeless tale about a family having a day on the beach. The children are called Joan, Fred and Betsy and they're staying at a boarding house not far from the sea with their Mummy. She's brought packets of sandwiches, biscuits, apples and a bottle of lemonade to the beach with her. The children buy ice-creams and Enid Blyton talks of the ice-cream being "slapped" between wafers. I don't want to say too much about the story but the dog is called Splash. It could have been written any time between about the 1920s and the 1950s!
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I am inclined to agree with Anita that this story must have another title.
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I can remember having ice-cream between two wafers in the late fifties/ early sixties. You had to be careful or the ice-cream would slip out at one end.
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I can remember having ice cream between two wafers in the 1970's and 1980's! You had to lick all around the four edges in turn - and if you squeezed the wafers slightly you could force the ice cream out more to lick it. We rarely bit the wafer until the ice cream was almost all gone!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
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hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)
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