...sad at the same time. He was thrilled to see me read but yet he wasn’t pleased to see who I was reading – the British author Enid Blyton. My dad, a literature student would have rather preferred that I read Shakespeare or Dickens… but I preferred Enid Blyton....
...Blyton is back, and all is forgiven. This summer she was voted the nation's favourite author. And yesterday the author Anne Fine, the former Children's Laureate, winner of every possible prize for her books, came out powerfully on the side of the Faraway Tree...
...her books are slightly pompous, says the former Childrens Laureate Jacqueline Wilson (who came 15th in the poll). But then Enid Blyton was from a very middle-class background; she was only writing what she knew. She had a rather pedestrian style of writing...
...duly blamed. The writer's books were then widely regarded as being unforgivably infra dig. There was a time when reading Enid Blyton wasn't quite as acceptable as it is today How times have changed: now parents are thrilled if their children read anything...
... London, Aug 20: In a poll outcome set to delight children worldwide, British adults have voted Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and JK Rowling as their three favourite writers, putting them well ahead of authors of the critically acclaimed 'serious stuff'. A nationwide...
...in Britain considered good for export to the colonies. I have never met anyone British who says lashings in the way in which Enid Blyton spoke of lashings of fresh farmhouse cream on home-made scones. Or oodles as an expression of vast quantities. In the clean-up...
...say, old chap, she's done it again!" "What's that, old thing?" "Enid Blyton. She's topped the latest poll - by the 2008 Costa Book Awards, I believe - to find the nation's best-loved writer." "It's jolly, jolly good. Hurrah - and doubtless not for the last...
...young sleuths and Timmy the dog. Just as James Bond has successfully outlived the death of his creator, Ian Fleming, so Enid Blyton's gang of tenacious, school-age detectives have been resurrected by an author writing in homage to Blyton. With this and 19...
...verbal complaints which she has informed the police about. She insists the golliwogs are harmless soft toys synonymous with Enid Blyton who regularly featured them in her famous books, including Noddy. Shopkeeper Viv Endecott has received hate mail branding...
...reading before breakfast. That would be true – but only partly. Quite embarrassingly, I don't remember reading anything but Enid Blyton from ages five to nine – perhaps with the exception of the great Roald Dahl. I would venture that, in common with Lucy...