Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic.

With Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the pixie, they explore the amazing lands to be found at the top of the tree – the Land of Spells, the Land of Toys, and the tempting Land of Goodies, but then one day Moonface, Silky and Saucepan Man disappear mysteriously. These are the stories I will read to my children someday, and despite my younger sister not even making it past the first few pages unable to bare the "boring-ness" I found it gripping and exicitng right from the very first word until the very last, and I feel that all children should be able to experience the magic of these stories.After climbing past all of these doorways, the children come to the top of the tree where there is a ladder up into the clouds. The children have many adventures in these lands, closing out the book with a day spent in perhaps the best of all, Birthday Land. Enid Blyton wrote these books in the late 1930s and early 1940s so understand that times were a lot different back then. I did enjoy some of the characters Moon-face in particular but the Saucepan man really winds me up he's the most annoying a repetitive character ever created. Next day they are off to the Enchanted Wood and Dick hears the leaves on the trees making a soft sound in the breeze — "Wisha, Wisha, Wisha!

Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. The three children make friends with colourful characters like Moon-Face, Mister Watzisname, Silky, and the Saucepan Man, feasting with them on Pop Biscuits and Google Buns and sliding down the slippery-slip which spirals down inside the trunk. She is arguably the most famous children’s author of all time, thanks to series such as The Wishing-Chair, The Faraway Tree­, The Mysteries, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven.Sometimes we all just need a little bit of magic and this book always has a way of giving me what I need.

I love Enid blyton books and even today when I re-read all of her stories, it takes me back to my childhood days <3 which is the only reason re-read them at time.In 1948, the first part of Up The Faraway Tree was published in Sunny Stories Magazine in picture-strip form.