Enid Blyton

[Deep Sea Isopod]

(11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968)
Got me though a real bad patch.
Ten years of reading the Famous Five and the Secret Seven!
Enid, you could never believe how much your stories would pull me through those years.

[Feck]

Dsi are you holding your own bad taste party tonight First Jarre now Enid ?

[starr]

I adored Enid Blyton books as a child. They were my absolute favourites.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Dsi are you holding your own bad taste party tonight First Jarre now Enid ?

Some people have no taste or culture.

[Feck]

Dsi are you holding your own bad taste party tonight First Jarre now Enid ?

Some people have no taste or culture.

I know but if you hadn't posted all this then we would never have known

[JimC]

I liked them too!

Lashings of ginger ale!

(but then I also liked Biggles... )

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I read Noddy when it was still racist!!

I read hundreds of her books by the age of 6. After that, I read The Hobbit and never went back.

[lofuji]

I can't have been very old when I read my first Enid Blyton book. It was also the last book of hers I ever picked up. Even though I was very young and couldn't have used these terms then to describe her writing, her middle-class moralizing made me want to puke.

lofuji

[Bella Fortuna]

I read some Famous Five and Secret Seven books to my son when he was younger. I'd never seen them as a child, but we enjoyed them together.

[Beelzebub2]

[War Arrow]

Weirdly enough she was born about one minute walk from where I lived in Dulwich for 15 years - the place is a DIY shop but there's a blue plaque above it now.

[charlou]

I read some Famous Five and Secret Seven books to my son when he was younger. I'd never seen them as a child, but we enjoyed them together.

My son and I pick them apart together.

He still likes the adventures, though, as I did as a child.

[redunderthebed]

Awesome books and a awesome author.

[Rum]

The books and stories *were* riddled with middle class British values, including unconscious class snobbery, imperialism and even racism, but Enyd Blyton had not the vaguest clue that they were in my view. As a kid I didn't either and I loved them. I preferred the Secret 7 to the Famous five though.

For me too, they are set in what felt like a timeless England somewhere in a hot summer between the two world wars when life was slow and people had time and knew what was what and all was well with the world, except for the evil things that came along for these kids to sort out and return the world to normality where you could go home for your tea at the end of the day.

[JimC]

The books and stories *were* riddled with middle class British values, including unconscious class snobbery, imperialism and even racism, but Enyd Blyton had not the vaguest clue that they were in my view. As a kid I didn't either and I loved them. I preferred the Secret 7 to the Famous five though.

For me too, they are set in what felt like a timeless England somewhere in a hot summer between the two world wars when life was slow and people had time and knew what was what and all was well with the world, except for the evil things that came along for these kids to sort out and return the world to normality where you could go home for your tea at the end of the day.

Thats very similar to what I felt about my favorite kids books, the "Swallows and Amazons" series by Arthur Ransome, set mostly in your neck of the woods, Rum...

I still re-read them...

Awesome books and a awesome author.

But Red, they would all be hanging from lamp-posts come the revolution... :twisted: