Personal Gems From The Cave Of Books

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In the early fifties, we used to have the choice between cornets or wafers when the ice cream van came round our street. We usually opted for wafers as they contained more ice cream. Happy memories of childhood. :D
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In the early sixties I sometimes bought a block of icecream and a packet of wafers, then cut the block up so my 2 children could each have a wafer. When number 3 was old enough to manage a wafer, the same block was cut a bit smaller, so they all got an icecream for the same price as before! (Times were hard!)
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of course, one reason that wafers are less common now is that most ice cream is sold in plastic tubs, rather than wrapped in cardboard packages.

8)
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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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WHERE ARE THE SECRET SEVEN? 1956
Australian Weeties Strip Books
Story: Specially Written


http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... t+Seven%3F" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I stumbled across a few more pics of what seems to be quite a rare item.
Don't know who the illustrator was.

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Thanks, Pete for posting the pics, I've never seen the illustrations inside a Weeties book although I have the text in the Short Story Collection.
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When cereal giveaways were really worth having!
'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.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... +Garden%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a great book for children.I don't think I've come across it before.
One for sale here:

http://www.blytonbooks.co.uk/books/enid ... 40/1311328" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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A super book, Pete. I'd love to see it reprinted. :D
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I have the very slightly later version, 'Let's Garden', which is much easier to get hold of.

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It suggests in The Cave that 'Let's Garden' and 'The Children's Garden' are the same book (except for a different illustrator) - but some of the text seems different too, judging by the photo above. There seem to be more plants listed in 'Let's Garden' - or if not, they are in a different order on the page shown. :-)

Its a lovely book, with some really atmospheric illustrations at the start of each chapter.

Here's one on eBay -

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lets-Garden-E ... SwJBBZlq4S

There's also a 1980's edition, which is the same book with the same illustrations - (I used to have this version but sold it when I bought the original version last year)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lets-garden-b ... SwjDZYh7iQ
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I wanted to put the contents pages of both books into the Cave, but I can't seem to find my copy of The Children's Garden. The number of books that I am unable to find gets larger by the day! :cry:
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I have the same problem Tony. :)

I hope your roof has stopped leaking.
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Tony Summerfield wrote:I wanted to put the contents pages of both books into the Cave, but I can't seem to find my copy of The Children's Garden. The number of books that I am unable to find gets larger by the day! :cry:
:-(

So far, in all my years of collecting Blyton books, I've only mislaid one book...'Polly Piglet' (1943 edition). I bought it at an EB Day, but now I can't find it anywhere. How does a book just disappear?! :-(
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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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Sounds like a mystery for the FFO or maybe SS. :D

It looks like quite a small book, so maybe it's got tucked inside a bigger one, or slipped down behind a shelf? Assuming that is, that you didn't leave it on the train going home? :cry:
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I definitely brought it home - but maybe it has slipped down behind some other books, or inside one, as you suggest! Its certainly a mystery! Where's Fatty when you need him? :lol:
'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.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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I hope you find it Rob. If you've looked in all the obvious/likely places, try some that are very unlikely. The sort of thing I'd do would be tuck it inside a jigsaw box. :roll:

A neighbour was telling me recently, that she 'lost' her sunglasses. She'd hunted down the back of the settee, checked at her daughter's house etc., but no lucky. Then about a week later she noticed a bag of coat hangers in the corner, and sure enough, her sunglasses were amongst them! :lol:
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