I am very lucky in that my parents wouldn't bat an eyelid at me asking for Enid Blyton, in fact they love my interest and positively encourage me in my collecting, my dad reads my collection just as much as I do. Neither of them would hesitate to buy me any book I wanted or borrow me some money for an expensive one. My aunts however are a different matter. Despite also reading EB as children (I know as I have their copies), they did outgrow them and would never understand my interest, they'd think it was ridiculous.
They are the sort who would have a fit if you gave them a second hand book rather than a new one, or a slightly older model phone rather than the latest must have, one of them even disparaged my new puppy because he didn't come with good enough papers!! and I remember being scorned at for liking Abba at 9 years old. Someone like that is never going to see the appeal of children's books from years ago. Shame really because it means when they ask me what I want for Christmas I can't tell them and have to pretend I don't know. Then I get money as they don't know what to give and I spend it on the books I wanted but couldn't ask them for
. I count my blessings every day that I wasn't born to one of my aunts, I'd be so miserable as they would approve of literally nothing I love. Awful but sadly true.
Anyway, my wonderful parents did get me some of the books I wanted:
1955 The Children of Kidillin in dw
1955 Three Boys and a Circus in dw
1955 The Secret of Cliff Castle in dw
1945 Shadow the Sheepdog in a copy dw as the original is too expensive!
1961 Bimbo and Topsy in dw
1952 Come to the Circs in dw
1962 The Four Cousins in dw
1954 Magazine Annual number 1 in dw
1936 News Chronicles story book 4
1950 Circus Days Again in dw
and from my brother:
1933 News Chronicles story book 1
1963 The Boy Who Wanted a Dog in dw
1953 The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor in dw