Wednesday, 19 March 2008

Enid's Sunshine Book and adventure

One author whose books I grew up with was Enid Blyton who apart from writing who character based series also wrote a number of short stories and one off pieces that have been collected over the years.

This collection assembled by Dean's and Son's in 1965 and in an early 1970's reprint is typical of it being a mixture of short stories, poems such as The Wind and  a few extracts from The Children at Happy House written in 1951.

This is my original copy which I treasure.



From time to time publishers do either abridged collections or themed compilations and here are two stories - Mischief at St. Rollo's and The Children of Kidillin that were originally published under a pen name but really were Enid's own work.

This Collin's edition dates from 1967 so is free from the bowdlerizing touch of later editions.

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