...the video for it below: 4. He is the cousin of the British actress Jemima Rooper, who played George in the TV series of Enid Blytonâs Famous Five. 5. The singer and songwriter was once voted the Sexiest Man Alive by Smash Hit magazine. 6. In June 2005 he relased...
...as their favorites, compared to 28 percent who preferred light and funny fare. âOld favourites such as Beatrix Potter and Enid Blyton are being eclipsed in the reading popularity stakes by the demand for children to laugh out loud as they turn the pages,â...
... Billions of blue blistering barnacles, isn't it staring us in the face? Sometimes a thing's so obvious it's hard to see where the debate could start. What debate can there be when the evidence is so overwhelmingly one-way? A callow, androgynous blonde-qui...
...school when I was supposed to be asleep. I don't remember the exact first book I read, but I'm afraid to admit that Biggles and Enid Blyton featured prominently on my reading list, later to be replaced by Jack London who I still believe to be a tremendous...
...the origins of Robert Peelâs Bow Street originals â intentionally recruited from the lower ranks of the Armed Services. Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie have done nothing to improve the public image, rather reinforcing a stereotype of the bumbling uneducated...
...heaven's sake give them real names, that is, Indian names, not names like Mr Jones and Mr Henderson." Fed a steady diet of Enid Blyton, Umrigar was an expert on small-town England but a neophyte when it came to crafting fictions set in her own country. Until...
...the millions of kids who grew up loving Enid Blyton's work (the Famous Five and the Mystery series), there's a new booklet around -- written by Brisbane journalist Tess Livingstone -- which teases out fresh Blyton trivia. It's called Old Thatch and it's about...
...Coca-Cola and wore Leviâs, or their imitators if the originals were unattainable, unavailable or unaffordable. We read Enid Blyton and watched Hindi movies where melodies and rhythms were sometimes lifted from rock and roll, Latin music via North America,...
...called Edward (now a movie, do keep up) â with the sort of passion that I once reserved for the Malory Towers books by Enid Blyton. I opened one of her chunky tomes at random: âEdward pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and...
...school children were obliged to learn it. And we wanted to practice our English. Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys eventually lead me to Enid Blyton, the Perry Mason series and then, horror of horrors, into more "mature" fiction thanks to Jeffrey Archer's Kane and...