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Enid BLYTON
Nearly complete listing - arranged by topic, series,
and year of publication, in that order of precedence
Enid (Mary) Blyton: U.K., 11 August, 1897 - 28 November, 1968
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[Introduction]
[How I've compiled the listing] -
[Note on alterations to later editions] -
[F.A.Q. (Questions I'm often asked about Blyton's work)] -
[List of Books]
[Adventure and mystery stories] - [School stories] - [Family stories] - [Animal stories] - [Short Story collections] -
[Fantasy, and Books for Younger Children] - [Bible stories, religion] - [Other titles (still unclassified)]
[Books about Enid Blyton]
[Web sites about Enid Blyton]
[Notes]
Introduction
How I've compiled the listing
There are many excellent Enid Blyton web sites on the Internet, covering
aspects of Blyton's work I have neither the time to research in detail nor the
web authoring skills to present effectively on a web page. This includes sites
which give a lot of useful detail about different editions of the books, and
ones which give many cover pictures and sometimes interior illustrations; and I
am not going to attempt to compete against them. Rather, I am going to stick to
what I know, and can present a web page about best: namely, as complete a
listing as I can of titles written by Blyton. This is far from being an easy
thing to do, since Blyton wrote so much, and I do not know of a definitively
complete listing of Blyton's work; so this page should be regarded as gradually
evolving ot that ideal, rather than meeting it fully at any particular moment.
From time to time I have seen other web pages which attempt to list most if
not all books Blyton wrote. I can't say exactly how many of these there are,
since web pages tend to come and go - but there have never been a lot of sites
that attempted to be complete in this: many seem to content themselves with
covering most of the main series and other well-known singles - sometimes very
well indeed - and either don't attempt to cover the more obscure titles, or give
them only patchy coverage.
I have seen only two or three sites that looked as if they were trying to
give a complete listing - and at least one of those has long since disappeared.
These listings have tended to follow one of two formats: either they arrange all
titles alphabetically by title; or they arrange them by year of first
publication (alphabetically within each year).
I have tried a different approach on this page, which I think may be more
useful - and that is to arrange titles, as far as I can, by broad topic
(adventure or mystery stories, school stories, family stories, and so on), and
then, within those categories, by series. There are other sites that attempt
this type of classification, but often in these cases the author is more
concerned with detailed (and often very good) coverage of well-known series than
with any attempt at completeness. I believe this page shares with only one
other site the combination of systematic classification of titles (not merely
alphabetically or by year of publication) with an attempt at completeness, even
if that is progressive (being augmented from time to time). That other site,
which I recommend to any who are interested in Blyton's work, can be found at
http://masonwilley.tripod.com/enidblyton.
Within the broad topic categories, the series are listed in the order that
their first titles were published; singleton (non-series) titles within these
topic categories are mixed in with the series - once again, in order of
publication. Each series will be preceded by a series title: either the
official one, or if I can't find an official title, then a descriptive title
made up by myself. In the listing, I have used indenting of titles and empty
lines in such a way as to clearly show when a series listing ends and the
following titles are unrelated to the series. The order within a series listing
is normally the order of publication, which is usually also the chronological
order within the series (as far as that can be determined, or as far as it
matters, in a Blyton series). The only exceptions to this are when another
author has written books which do slot into a particular position within the
time-frame covered by Blyton's books; in that case, I list the titles in
internal chronological order within each series, as far as I can determine that.
Sometimes within an overall series of books, there are subseries of books
more closely related to each other, either in content or in the style or type of
edition. The Noddy series especially seems prone to having subseries, because
of the multiplicity of Noddy books that have appeared. I do not know how many
of these were created by Blyton herself, and how many by the "Blyton industry"
that has sprung up within the last decade or so; but I will list all subseries
within a series when I am able to find this information.
In the case where I know nothing about a title (the majority of Blyton's
titles, in fact), I cannot reliably assign them to a broad category (school,
family, adventure, and so on). All such titles are going to be listed at the
bottom of this listing, under the heading "Other titles", although that part of
this page is not far advanced yet. Where I can ascertain that some
titles belong to a series, they are listed as a series within this heading. But
any time I am able to find out more about these titles, I will reassign them to
one of the topic categories. If several titles don't fit any of the topic
categories I've created, I will create a new one to cover them.
I must say straight away that my attempt to list titles by series is
incomplete, and may well contain errors. There are huge numbers of Blyton
titles I do not have access to, and without seeing a book for myself I can only
guess what books may be in a series or not.
The numbering I have given for titles within a series refers to the
standard titles by Blyton, as commonly seen, and may not always include
lesser-known accessory works associated with some series. These are usually
short stories or short novels which may have originally appeared in collections
or magazines; some of these have recently seen republication as separate small
volumes or new short-story collections: for instance, those associated with the
Centenary editions of some of Blyton's series that have appeared in recent
years. The numbering given is normally that found on the books themselves,
either explicitly as a number, or by implication within the plot description
sometimes found on the back cover. When numbering is not present on any edition
that I have seen, I supply numbers reflecting publication order, and enclose
them within square brackets.
In yet other cases, there are extra stories of certain series written later
by other authors; where I have details of these, I have included these in my
listings - interspersed within the listing of Blyton's own titles, where it
seems clear that the new titles fall into a particular chronological order
relative to Blyton's original stories. This is the case in the Naughtiest Girl
series, to which Anne Digby has added six new novels, and in the St. Clare's
series, to which Pamela Cox has added two new novels.
I have kept these in separate listings when there is no apparent
chronological relationship with the original novels: namely in the Famous Five
and Secret Seven series, to which have been added many new novels, originally in
French, later translated into English, by Claude Voilier and Evelynne Lallemand
respectively. These series by other authors usually have their own numbering
sequence beginning with 1, and I have adhered to that on this page; however,
Anne Digby's further "Naughtiest Girl" stories start their numbering where
Blyton's series leaves off (after including a short novel which has been added
to the "official" series recently); and I have kept the numbering used by Anne
Digby.
My main source of information for the listings on this page is Barbara
Stoney's Enid Blyton: The Biography, Hodder & Stoughton, 1974, revised 1992.
In the following material, in referencing it, I will refer to it as Stoney.
Mason Willey's web site, mentioned above, has also been valuable for helping me
sort out series I would otherwise have had no chance of sorting out. He must
have an awesome collection of books that I would certainly be interested to see!
References to this will appear as Willey.
Sources differ according to how words in titles are capitalized, and I
suspect they simply use their own house style. I have not attempted to keep
track of all this (life is too short for that!), but simply use the conventional
style regardless: namely, I capitalize the first word of each title, plus all
nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and long prepositions. I try to be
accurate about the use of punctuation within titles: the presence or absence of
commas, full-stops and apostrophes (for things like "St. Clare's"), and the
like. But in some cases the exact usage is unclear, and it is something I
suspect publishers adopt their own house style on. I have not necessarily
followed practices that appear to be house styles, and have adopted the form I
think would most likely have conformed to the first editions that came out, in a
time when people generally took more care about punctuation than they do
today.
I have indicated illustrators for series or individual volumes where I have
this information, and "ill." is used in the listings to mean "illustrated by".
Thanks to Eleanor Stewart Garth for information about Bible stories and the
Happy House Children series; and to David Rudd for information about
little-known stories related to the Secret Seven series, and for information about
the extra Famous Five and Secret Seven books by French writers.
Note on alterations to later editions
Collectors should be aware that editions of Blyton's work from about 1970
onwards may not be exactly the text that Enid Blyton wrote. Various things have
been changed in many of her works, for a variety of reasons. I do not attempt
to document these alterations on this page - it would be a life-time's work, and
the job probably could not be completed, even so. However, I will summarize
briefly the broad categories of alterations I have noticed:
Changes arising from "political correctness":
Some people believe that Blyton's work shows racism, sexist stereotypes,
class discrimination, and the like; and some of these people happen to be
editors. I am not going to open this can of worms on this page, except to say
that I think people have read far more adverse meaning into Blyton's work than
she intended. But, the way people take certain things now, it is difficult to
say that references perceived to be objectionable should remain unchanged. A
very difficult issue.
More changes seem to be inspired by the desire to avoid references to
blacks, than considerations of ageism, sexism, and the other "isms". For example
phrases such as "very clever for a girl" seem to have escaped the editor's blue
pencil in some fairly recent editions.
Examples of changes to the text designed to avoid racial slurs include:
changing a black character to a white (black Jo-Jo in The Island of Adventure
becomes white Joe); changing golliwogs to other characters such as goblins (in
the Noddy books); changing expressions such as "she looked like a blackboy" (that
is, very dirty) to something thought to be innocuous; where a dog was named
"Nigger", changing this to something else.
There is one book of Blyton's it is safe to say will never see publication
again: The Three Golliwogs (1944), whose three golliwog characters are (I have
heard) called Golly, Woggy, and Nigger.
Currency changes, etc.:
In 1970, Britain changed its currency from pounds, shillings, and pence to
new pounds and decimal pence (100 in a pound, instead of 240, as before). Some
editions of Blyton's works after that alter currency references to conform to
the new currency; amusingly, though, sometimes the amounts are not increased
suitably to allow for inflation. So for the children in the "Naughtiest Girl"
series to get 2 shillings a week for pocket money sounds reasonable, bearing in
mind the books are several decades old now; but for them to get 20 p. just
sounds rather ridiculous. I have seen this, though; but I think I also once saw
an edition where this was changed to 2 pounds - obviously an attempt to appear
more convincing, even while insisting on updating the text.
I have even (heaven forbid!) seen metric units introduced into some
editions - which I personally think amounts to completely unjustified meddling
with the author's text. This looks to me like the result of over-zealous
attempts to be trendy, since it appears to me that Britain has never become as
fanatically metricated as Australia has, for example.
Various other small changes reflecting social change:
This includes such little things as removing colloquial expressions thought
to have dated, and replacing them with new expressions thought to be more
up-to-date.
It might also include things like changing a car registration number in the
John Hollins short story "Number Sixty-Two". In one copy I have (in Enid
Blyton's Adventure Treasury, this number is given as STA 120; but in the
version in The Secret of Skytop Hill and Other Stories, the number is given
as L392 BST. Such an alteration seems inexplicable on the face of it, possibly
even pointless - what possible improvement could that make?, one might wonder.
But I feel it's likely that the change was made simply to conform to the
format of car number-plates current at the time the change was made, simply to
appear more familiar to modern readers and therefore make a bit better sense. I
suppose it sounds harmless.
But, from another point of view, such changes seem pointless, because in
several years' time, as registration numbers get used up and eventually
recycled, the format could well change again as the authorities open up new
ranges of numbers.
In Victoria, Australia, where I live, I have seen car number-plates start
with H, then progress through J and K; then jump back to A, B, C, and then go
forwards to O and P - while South Australia jumped about similarly, dovetailing
in with this so that two states don't use the same numbers at the same time.
It does seem a bit pointless to make changes to a story to try and keep up
with things like this. (I also notice that the same car in "Number Sixty-Two"
has gone from being a red Humber sports saloon to a Ford one. Another car in
another story was mentioned as a Ford Escort - something I doubt even existed
during Blyton's life-time.)
While some of the changes are doubtless intended to keep up with social
change, it would be an endless task to continue to keep up with things that
never stop changing; and, if more and more of these changes are made over the
years, the original feel of the text is just going to get diluted, and then,
eventually, lost entirely. For how long during these accumulating changes could
a book honestly be referred to as "by Enid Blyton"? All literature ages, and
is usually left alone - so why cannot Blyton's books be allowed to age
gracefully, instead of being subjected to constant alteration by the
revisionists of the literary world?
Various other small changes for no apparent (even tiny) reason:
By this, I mean various little changes in wording that can't even be
attributed to reflecting changes in society and the world: a car containing
thieves running away is "stopped" instead of "caught"; a boy is "excited" rather
than "thrilled"; some words are italicized, and others de-italicized - that sort
of thing.
Who knows why editors make such tiny changes? I don't; but I have observed
such changes in cases where I have two different editions of a story from
different times, and duly note it here.
Beyond these observations on the kinds of changes that have been made, I
cannot offer any more detail, other than to suggest that collectors who prefer
the original texts without even these small changes would do well to focus on
editions before about 1970.
F.A.Q. (Questions I'm often asked about Blyton's work)
Use the link in the heading to go straight to my answers to questions I
sometimes get asked.
I get quite a few queries by e-mail from people who read this page and who
need further information - far more than I get for all other web pages of mine
combined! However, the total number of these questions is such that I can
manage them all right, and I do my best to answer them all.
However, certain questions (or types of questions) do come up again
sometimes, and I have decided to write a separate page giving my answers to
them. You can read these answers by following the link in the heading
immediately above.
For anyone who can't find their answers here, please feel free to write to
me anyway. This page of common questions and answers is not an attempt to stop
people asking me for information, but simply an attempt to present the
information I am most often asked for in an easily accessible manner.
Michael Edwards,
Victoria, Australia.
E-mail me about Enid Blyton.
NOTE:
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arranging the information clearly takes priority over adopting the conventional
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LIST OF BOOKS
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[ Adventure and mystery stories - School stories - Family stories - Animal stories - Short Story Collections -
Fantasy, and Books for Younger Children - Bible stories, religion - Other titles ]
Adventure and mystery stories
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[ SECRET SERIES - ADVENTUROUS FOUR SERIES - FAMOUS FIVE SERIES - MYSTERY SERIES (FIND-OUTERS) -
ADVENTURE SERIES - BARNEY SERIES - SECRET SEVEN SERIES ]
SECRET SERIES - Blackwell
1. The Secret Island 1938 Ill. E. H. Davie
2. The Secret of Spiggy Holes 1940 Ill. E. H. Davie
3. The Secret Mountain 1941 Ill. Harry Rountree
4. The Secret of Killimooin 1943 Ill. Eileen A. Soper
5. The Secret of Moon Castle 1953 Ill. Dorothy Hall
The Children of Kidillin [1] 1940 short novel (See review)
1940: Newnes, as by Mary Pollock
1960: In Adventure Stories (Collins, 1960), as by Enid Blyton
The Treasure Hunters [2] 1940 - Newnes
THE ADVENTUROUS FOUR SERIES [3] - Newnes
1. The Adventurous Four 1941 Ill. E. H. Davie
2. The Adventurous Four Again 1947 Ill. Jessie Land
- Off with the Adventurous Four Again! [4] 1952 short novel
1952: In Enid Blyton's Omnibus! (1952)
ca. 1997: As a separate small volume (late 1990s); numbered 3 in the series
ca. 1997: As The Adventurous Four: Trapped - possibly revised, as part of a revision of the entire series
1999: In Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury (1999)
Title as "Off with the Adventurous Four Again" (with the
exclamation mark removed), and year given is 1951
FAMOUS FIVE SERIES
Enid Blyton's original series, plus further books by other writers; the various
series listed in order of internal chronology when that can be determined.
Just George books by Sue Welford [5] - Hodder Headline: Hodder Children's Books Ill. Lesley Harker
1. George, Timmy and the Haunted Cave
2. George, Timmy and the Curious Treasure
3. George, Timmy and the Footprint in the Sand
4. George, Timmy and the Secret in the Cellar
5. George, Timmy and the Stranger in the Storm
6. George, Timmy and the Lighthouse Mystery
The original series by Blyton - Hodder & Stoughton Ill. Eileen A. Soper (1905 - 1990)
(U.S. titles in parentheses, where known - publisher not yet known) [6]
1. Five on a Treasure Island 1942
2. Five Go Adventuring Again 1943
3. Five Run Away Together 1944 (Five Run Away to Danger)
4. Five Go to Smuggler's Top [7] 1945
5. Five Go Off in a Caravan 1946
6. Five on Kirrin Island Again 1947
7. Five Go Off to Camp 1948 (Five on the Track of a Spook Train)
8. Five Get Into Trouble 1949 (Five Caught in a Treacherous Plot) (See review)
9. Five Fall Into Adventure 1950
10. Five on a Hike Together 1951
11. Five Have a Wonderful Time 1952
12. Five Go Down to the Sea 1953
13. Five Go to Mystery Moor 1954
14. Five Have Plenty of Fun 1955
15. Five on a Secret Trail 1956
16. Five Go to Billycock Hill 1957 (See review)
17. Five Get Into a Fix 1958
18. Five on Finniston Farm 1960 (See review)
19. Five Go to Demon's Rocks 1961
20. Five Have a Mystery to Solve 1962
21. Five Are Together Again 1963
Short stories about the Famous Five (by Blyton)
Five Have a Puzzling Time and Other Stories 1995
Random House: Red Fox Books Ill. Hemesh Alles; cover ill. David Kearney
Collection containing a short novel and 7 short stories
Five Have a Puzzling Time short novel
George's Hair Is Too Long!
Good Old Timmy!
A Lazy Afternoon
Well Done, Famous Five!
Five and a Half-Term Adventure
Happy Christmas, Five!
When Timmy Chased the Cat!
These stories were originally published in 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960, and 1961
in periodicals - individual details for stories are not so far available, as they
are not given in the paperback edition of this collection.
Further novels by Claude Voilier
The following Famous Five novels were originally published in French, and translated by Anthea Bell [8]
(This listing is not yet fully organized; vowels in brackets require accents I haven't yet
ascertained, not being a French speaker. They are probably all the same kind of accent,
and the uncertainty results from incompatibilities of file-format between my source of
information and my computer. It also appears possible to me (as a non-French speaker)
that in the first two titles "Le Cinq" should be "Les Cinq".)
1. Le Cinq sont les plus forts 1971 The Famous Five and the Mystery of the Emeralds
2. Le Cinq au bal des espions 1971 The Famous Five in Fancy Dress
3. Le Marquis appelle les Cinq 1972 The Famous Five and the Stately Homes Gang
4. Les Cinq au Cap des tempêtes 1972 The Famous Five and the Missing Cheetah
5. Les Cinq à la T(e)lévision 1973 The Famous Five go on Television
6. Les Cinq et les pirates du ciel 1973 The Famous Five and the Hijackers
7. Les Cinq contre le Masque noir 1974 The Famous Five Versus the Black Mask
8. Les Cinq et le galion d'or 1974 The Famous Five and the Golden Galleon
9. Les Cinq font de la brocante 1975 The Famous Five and the Inca God
10. Les Cinq se mettent en quatre 1975 The Famous Five and the Pink Pearls
11. Les Cinq dans la cit(e) secrète 1976 The Famous Five and the Secret of the Caves
12. La fortune sourit aux Cinq 1976 The Famous Five and the Cavalier's Treasure
13. Les Cinq et le rayon Z 1977 The Famous Five and the Z-Rays
14. Les Cinq vendent la peau de l'ours 1977 The Famous Five and the Blue Bear Mystery
15. Les Cinq aux rendez-vous du diable 1978 The Famous Five in Deadly Danger
16. Du neuf pour les Cinq 1978 The Famous Five and the Strange Legacy
17. Les Cinq et le diamant bleu 1979 [The Famous Five and the Blue Diamond]
Reprinted as "Les Cinq et le rubis d'Akbar" 1980 - [The Famous Five and the Ruby of Akbar]
18. Les Cinq et le tr(e)sor de Roqu(e)pine 1979 The Famous Five and the Knights' Treasure
[The Famous Five and the Treasure of the Templars, in the Rosenzweig edition]
19. Les Cinq en croisière 1980 [The Famous Five on a Cruise]
20. Les Cinq jouent serr(e) 1980 The Famous Five and the Strange Scientist
21. Les Cinq contre les fantômes 1981 [The Famous Five Against the Ghosts]
22. Les Cinq en Amazonie 1983 [The Famous Five in the Amazon]
English titles given in square brackets have probably not been translated into English;
these titles are therefore just translations of the actual titles in French.)
Smuggler Ben 1943 short novel
1943: Laurie, as by Mary Pollock
1960: In Mystery Stories (Collins, 1960), as by Enid Blyton
1999: In Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury (Hodder Headline: Hodder Children's Books, 1999), as by Enid Blyton
MYSTERY SERIES (FIND-OUTERS) - Methuen (novels only; the two unnumbered titles are short stories)
1 - 7 ill. J. Abbey; 8 - 12 ill. Treyer Evans; 13 - 15 ill. Lilian Buchanan
1. The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage 1943
2. The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat 1944
3. The Mystery of the Secret Room [1] 1945
4. The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters [1] 1946
5. The Mystery of the Missing Necklace 1947
6. The Mystery of the Hidden House 1948
7. The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat 1949
8. The Mystery of the Invisible Thief 1950
9. The Mystery of the Vanished Prince 1951
10. The Mystery of the Strange Bundle 1952
11. The Mystery of Holly Lane 1953
12. The Mystery of Tally-Ho Cottage 1954
13. The Mystery of the Missing Man [1] 1956
14. The Mystery of the Strange Messages [1] 1957
-- Just a Spot of Bother! 1957 short story
1957: Original appearance unknown
1999: Republished in Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury (1999)
15. The Mystery of Banshee Towers [1] 1961
-- The Five Find-Outers and Dog
Tackle the Mystery Sneak Thief 1962 short story
1962: Original appearance unknown
1999: Republished in Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury (1999)
The Boy Next Door [2] 1944 - Newnes Ill. A. E. Bestall (See review)
ADVENTURE SERIES[9] - Macmillan Ill. Stuart T. Tresilian
1. The Island of Adventure 1944
2. The Castle of Adventure 1946
3. The Valley of Adventure 1947
4. The Sea of Adventure 1948
5. The Mountain of Adventure 1949
6. The Ship of Adventure 1950
7. The Circus of Adventure 1952
8. The River of Adventure [1] 1955
The Secret of Cliff Castle 1947 short novel
1947: Laurie, as by Mary Pollock
1960: In Mystery Stories (Collins, 1960), as by Enid Blyton
Note: this title is not in the Secret series, in spite of its title being in the same format.
SECRET SEVEN SERIES
Preliminary or marginally related works
The Wonderful Adventure [10] 1924 short story
Probably not published separately - details unknown
At Seaside Cottage [10] 1947 short story
1947: Brockhampton Ill. Eileen A. Soper
1969: In the collection At Seaside Cottage
The Secret of the Old Mill [11] 1948 short novel
1948: Brockhampton Ill. Eileen A. Soper
1997: In The Secret Seven Short Story Collection (1997)
Original series
- British editions: Brockhampton:
1 - 4 ill. George Brook; 5 - 7 ill. Bruno Kay; 8 - 15 ill. Burgess Sharrocks
- U.S. editions: publisher not yet known; different titles given in right-hand column
British title [12] U.S. title: "The Secret Seven..."
1. The Secret Seven 1949 ... and the Mystery of the Empty House
2. Secret Seven Adventure 1950 ... and the Circus Adventure
3. Well Done, Secret Seven [13] 1951 ... and the Tree House Adventure
4. Secret Seven on the Trail 1952 ... and the Railroad Mystery
5. Go Ahead Secret Seven 1953 ... Get Their Man
6. Good Work, Secret Seven [13] 1954 ... and the Case of the Stolen Car
7. Secret Seven Win Through 1955 ... and the Hidden Cave Adventure
8. Three Cheers Secret Seven 1956 ... and the Grim Secret (See review)
9. Secret Seven Mystery 1957 ... and the Missing Girl Mystery
10. Puzzle for the Secret Seven 1958 ... and the Case of the Music Lover
11. Secret Seven Fireworks 1959 ... and the Bonfire Adventure
12. Good Old Secret Seven 1960 ... and the Old Fort Adventure
13. Shock for the Secret Seven 1961 ... and the Case of the Dog Lover
14. Look Out Secret Seven 1962 ... and the Case of the Missing Medals
15. Fun for the Secret Seven 1963 ... and the Case of the Old Horse
Short stories about the Secret Seven (by Blyton)
The Secret Seven Short Story Collection 1997 - Hodder Headline: Hodder Children's Books Ill. Max Schindler
Collection containing a short novel and 5 short stories
The Secret of Old Mill [11] 1948 short novel
The Humbug Adventure 1954
Adventure on the Way Home 1955
An Afternoon with the Secret Seven 1956
Where Are the Secret Seven? 1956
Hurry, Secret Seven, Hurry! 1957
Further novels by Evelyne Lallemand
- French editions (in French): Hachette Ill. unknown
- English editions (in English): Knight Books (an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton) Ill. Maureen Bradley
A number of further Secret Seven books appeared in France beginning in the mid 1970s. They were
originally written in French by Evelyne Lallemand, and translated into English by Anthea Bell. The
English titles are not always a literal rendering of the French ones.) [14]
1. Les Sept a la chasse au lion 1976 The Seven and the Lion Hunt
2. Les Sept sont dans de Beaux Draps 1978 The Seven Go Haunting
3. Les Sept et le Magicien 1977 The Seven and the Magician
4. Les Sept et las Deesse d'or 1977 The Seven Strike Gold
5. Les Sept et les bulldozers 1978 The Seven to the Rescue
6. Les Sept font du Cinema 1977 The Seven on Screen
7. Les Sept et les Soucoupes volantes 1979 The Seven and the UFOs
8. Les Sept ne croient pas au Pere Noel 1981 The Seven and Father Christmas
9. Les Sept a 200 a l'heure 1982 The Seven and the Racing Driver
BARNEY SERIES - Collins; 1 - 5 ill. Gilbert Dunlop; 6 ill. Anyon Cook
1. The Rockingdown Mystery 1949
2. The Rilloby Fair Mystery [1] 1950
3. The Ring-O'-Bells Mystery [1] 1951 [1955?]
4. The Rubadub Mystery 1952
5. The Rat-a-tat Mystery [1] 1956
6. The Ragamuffin Mystery [1] 1959
[Until June, 2003, I have inadvertently had titles 3 and 4 within this series reversed, and not
noticed it until now. It is corrected now. The publication year for The Ring-O'-Bells Mystery
is still unclear, but I will check it when I can. It was probably published in 1951, but somehow
I got the idea (perhaps from an edition I've seen) that it was published in 1955; and this is the
probable reason for my wrong transposition of titles 3 and 4 until now.]
What an Adventure 1950 - Brockhampton
The Queer Adventure 1952 - Staples Press Ill. Norman Meredith
The Adventure of the Secret Necklace 1954 - Lutterworth Ill. Isabel Veevers
Holiday House [2] 1955 - Evans Ill. Grace Lodge
The Adventure of the Strange Ruby [1][2] 1960 - Brockhampton
Adventure Stories 1960 - Collins
Contains Mischief at St. Rollo's and The Children of Kidillin
Mystery Stories 1960 - Collins
Contains The Secret of Cliff Castle and Smuggler Ben
The Mystery That Never Was [2] 1961 - Collins Ill. Gilbert Dunlop(See review)
School stories
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[ NAUGHTIEST GIRL SERIES - ST. CLARE'S SERIES - MALORY TOWERS SERIES ]
NAUGHTIEST GIRL SERIES
Original series by Blyton - Newnes
1. The Naughtiest Girl in the School [15] 1940 Ill. W. Lindsay Cable
2. The Naughtiest Girl Again [15] 1942 Ill. W. Lindsay Cable
3. The Naughtiest Girl Is a Monitor [15] 1945 Ill. Kenneth Lovell
4. Here's the Naughtiest Girl! [16] 1952 short novel
1952: In Enid Blyton's Omnibus! (1952)
ca. 1997: As separate volume
Further titles by Anne Digby [17]
5. The Naughtiest Girl Keeps a Secret 1999
6. The Naughtiest Girl Helps a Friend 1999
7. The Naughtiest Girl Saves the Day 1999
8. Well Done, the Naughtiest Girl! 1999
9. The Naughtiest Girl Wants to Win 2000
10. The Naughtiest Girl Marches On 2000
ST. CLARE'S SERIES - Methuen (Blyton titles only) Ill. W. Lindsay Cable (Blyton titles only)
There are two further books in this series written by Pamela Cox; they are included
in the main listing, instead of being put in a supplementary listing as I would normally
do, because they were written to fill gaps in the internal chronology of the series.
Because of this, I have listed all titles in chronological order within the series.
Blyton omitted to write a story set in the Third Form, and (rather tantalizingly)
did not write a final volume in which Pat and Isobel are joint Head Girls in Sixth Form,
even though the last book in the series (Fifth Formers at St. Clare's) did end
with the promise that they would be Head Girls the following year.
Editions which were issued before Pamela Cox published her two contributions were
not numbered prominently, except maybe for blurbs on the covers which said something
like, "This is the second exciting story...". These numberings would have been 1 to 6
in the order given below if you ignore the two Cox titles. The current paperback
edition integrates Cox's titles into the overall series and numbers them 1 to 8, as
given below.
1. The Twins at St. Clare's 1941
2. The O'Sullivan Twins 1942 (acc. Willey, later called "The O'Sullivan Twins Again")
3. Summer Term at St. Clare's 1943
4. Second Form at St. Clare's 1944
5. Third Form at St. Clare's 2000 by Pamela Cox
6. Claudine at St. Clare's 1944
7. Fifth Formers at St. Clare's 1945 ("of", acc. Willey)
8. Sixth Form at St. Clare's 2000 by Pamela Cox
[It appears that, for close on two years, I have inadvertently had the order of the St. Clare's series
wrong in the above listing, putting Claudine at St. Clare's in the 4th position instead of the 6th.
It is corrected now. The confusion appears to have arisen from the fact that this book and Second Form at
St. Clare's were both published in the same year.]
MALORY TOWERS SERIES [18] - Methuen Ill. Stanley Lloyd
1. First Term at Malory Towers 1946
2. Second Form at Malory Towers [19] 1947
3. Third Year at Malory Towers 1948
4. The Upper Fourth at Malory Towers 1949
5. In the Fifth at Malory Towers 1950
6. Last Term at Malory Towers 1951
Mischief at St. Rollo's [20] 1943? 1947? short novel
? 1943: Newnes, as by Mary Pollock
? 1947: Laurie, as by Mary Pollock
1960: In Adventure Stories (Collins, 1960), as by Enid Blyton
Family stories
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[ CHERRY TREE FARM / WILLOW FARM SERIES - CARAVAN FAMILY SERIES -
HAPPY HOUSE CHILDREN SERIES - SIX COUSINS SERIES ]
CHERRY TREE FARM / WILLOW FARM SERIES
The Children of Cherry Tree Farm [21] 1940 - Country Life Ill. Harry Rountree
The Children of Willow Farm 1942 - Country Life Ill. Harry Rountree
More Adventures on Willow Farm 1942 - Country Life
Adventures on Willow Farm [22] 1968 - Collins
At Appletree Farm 1944 - Brockhampton
The Brown Family 1945 - News Chronicle Ill. E. and R. Buhler
The Family at Red Roofs 1945 - Lutterworth Ill. W. Spence
Hollow Tree House [2] 1945 - Lutterworth Ill. Elizabeth Wall
CARAVAN FAMILY SERIES - Lutterworth (1 ill. William Fyffe; 2 - 6 ill. Ruth Gervis)
1. The Caravan Family 1945
2. The Saucy Jane Family 1947
3. The Pole Star Family 1950
4. The Seaside Family 1950
5. The Buttercup Farm Family 1951
6. The Queen Elizabeth Family 1951
HAPPY HOUSE CHILDREN SERIES [23]
The Children at Happy House 1946 - Blackwell short novel Ill. Kathleen Gell
(Probably included in the 1966 volume The Happy House Children, and confusingly
retitled to the same title as the volume which contains it.
The Happy House Children Again 1947 - Blackwell short novel Ill. Kathleen Gell
Benjy and the Others [24] 1955 - Latimer House Ill. Kathleen Gell
The Happy House Children 1966 - Collins Ill. unknown
Omnibus edition containing two short novels:
The Happy House Children (probably the same as "The Children at Happy House" above)
The Happy House Children Again
The Put-Em-Rights 1946 - Lutterworth Ill. Elizabeth Wall (See review)
The House at the Corner [25] 1947 - Lutterworth Ill. Elsie Walker
The Smith Family - Books 1 - 3 1947 - Arnold
They Ran Away Together 1948 - Brockhampton Ill. Jeanne Farrar
SIX COUSINS SERIES - Evans
Six Cousins at Mistletoe Farm 1948 Ill. Peter Beigel
Six Cousins Again 1950 Ill. Maurice Tulloch
Those Dreadful Children 1949 - Lutterworth Ill. Grace Lodge
The Six Bad Boys 1951 - Lutterworth Ill. Mary Gernat
The Children at Green Meadows 1954 - Lutterworth Ill. Grace Lodge
The Troublesome Three 1955 - Sampson Low Ill. Leo
Four in a Family 1956 - Lutterworth Ill. Tom Kerr
The Four Cousins 1962 - Lutterworth Ill. Joan Thompson
The Boy Who Came Back 1965 - Lutterworth Ill. Elsie Walker
Animal Stories
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[ MR. GALLIANO'S CIRCUS SERIES ]
MR. GALLIANO'S CIRCUS SERIES - Newnes [26]
[1.] Mr. Galliano's Circus 1938
[2.] Hurrah for the Circus! [27] 1939 Ill. E. H. Davie
[3.] Circus Days Again 1942
- A Circus Adventure 1952 short novel
1952: In Enid Blyton's Omnibus! (1952)
1998: In The Secret of Skytop Hill and Other Stories
Three Boys and a Circus 1940
1940: Newnes, as by Mary Pollock
1959: In Dog Stories (Collins, 1959), as by Enid Blyton
Shadow the Sheep Dog 1942 - Newnes
The Adventures of Scamp 1943
1943: Newnes, as by Mary Pollock
1959: In Dog Stories (Collins, 1959), as by Enid Blyton
Come to the Circus 1944 - Brockhampton Ill. Eileen A. Soper
Not the same as the 1948 book of the same title. And apparently neither of the books
bearing this title belong to the Mr. Galliano's Circus series, as I had believed for many
years - although I cannot be sure, since I have a copy of only one of the two, and it is
about Mr. Carl Crack's Circus, with a girl called Fenella as the central character. Until
June, 2003, I had wrongly listed one of the Come to the Circuses as a Galliano title.
I have now corrected things in the light of the best information I have so far. If anyone
can help me disentangle the confusion concerning these various circus stories, I would be
grateful if they would please e-mail the details to me (please remove the spam block from the
"To:" line).)
Come to the Circus 1948 Ill. Joyce M. Johnson
Not the same as the 1944 book of the same title.
Let's Go to the Circus 1951 - Odhams
Snowball the Pony 1953 - Lutterworth Ill. Iris Gillespie
Dog Stories 1959 - Collins
Contains Three Boys and a Circus and The Adventures of Scamp
The Boy Who Wanted a Dog 1963 - Lutterworth Ill. Sally Michel
Short Story Collections
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[ Enid Blyton's Omnibus! - At Seaside Cottage - The Smugglers' Caves and Other Stories -
Five Have a Puzzling Time - The Secret Seven Short Story Collection -
The Secret of Skytop Hill and Other Stories - Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury -
JOHN HOLLINS SERIES ]
Please go here: [28] for more detail on how I've gone about collecting the following
information on short-story collections, and the reasons why I am not attempting to be complete here,
but merely presenting what information comes my way. You will also find an explanation of the
parenthesized abbrevations I use after individual story titles to give some idea of the content
or style of the story.
There is a section at the end of the short-story collections listing for the
John Hollins series which appear scattered in ones and twos through various collections.
To my knowledge, there is no collection gathering together all the stories in this series, and I
don't even know how many John Hollins stories there are.
Enid Blyton's Omnibus! [29] 1952 - Newnes Ill. Jessie Land
Contains short stories continuing various series, thus:
Off with the Adventurous Four Again! (Adventurous Four series)
Good Old Wishing-Chair! (Wishing Chair series)
A Circus Adventure (Mr. Galliano's Circus series)
The Faraway Tree (Faraway Tree series)
Here's the Naughtiest Girl! (Naughtiest Girl series)
At Seaside Cottage [30] [31] 1969 - Brockhampton Press: Knight Books Ill. Caroline Sharpe
The Three Sailors (ev)
Julia's Nest (an) (ev)
Grandad's Armchair (ev)
The Lost Tortoise (an) (ev)
The Scarecrow (an) (ev)
Annabel's Little Thimble (ev)
At Seaside Cottage [32] (ev) Predecessor to Secret Seven series. [33]
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Granny's Kittens (an) (ev)
Bluebell Wood (an) (ev)
Rusty and the Basket (an) (ev)
The White Pigeon (an) (ev)
She Couldn't Go out to Play (ev)
The Flying Letter (ev)
The Smugglers' Caves and Other Stories [30] 1993
Award Publications
Ill. Martine Blaney, Maureen Bradley, LYnne Byrnes, Sally Gregory, Jane Pape-Ettridge,
Sara Silcock, Lesley Smith, Dudley Wynn
First published as Enid Blyton's Holiday Book Series
The Smugglers' Caves [34] (he)
Billy-Bob's Coconut (an) (ev)
Fly-Pie (fn)
The Voice in the Shed (ev)
Adventure up a Tree (ad) [35]
Wagger Goes to the Show (an)
The Surprising Broom (fn)
The Old Bicycle (he)
Patter's Adventure (fn)
The Train that Broke in Half (he)
The Lost Bus (fn)
The Five Bad Boys (ad)
Somebody Saw! (ev)
The Boy Whose Toys Came Alive (fn)
Colin is a Good Policeman (ad)
The Very Fierce Carpenter (an) (he)
On His Way Home (ev) (mo)
The Fly-Away Cottage (fn)
Adventure in the Afternoon (ad)
A Spell for a Lazy Boy (fn)
When Mac was a Shadow (ad)
The Cat With a Feathery Tail (fn)
Giggle and Hop Get into Trouble (fn)
Michael's New Belt (ev) (he)
Sailor Jim's Telescope (he)
"I Dare You To!" (mo)
Adventure for Two (ad)
A Visitor to Dinner (an)
Look Out for the Elephant! (an)
Caterpillars' Party (fn)
Untidy William (fn)
Freddie Has a Job (an) (ev)
Five Have a Puzzling Time and Other Stories 1995 - See the entry under the Famous Five heading
The Secret Seven Short Story Collection 1997 - See the entry under the Secret Seven heading
The Secret of Skytop Hill and Other Stories [30] 1998 Award Publications Ill. Pythia Ashton-Jewell
The Secret of Skytop Hill (ad)
It Happened One Afternoon (fm) (mo)
A Circus Adventure (ci) A Mr. Galliano's Circus short story
The Mystery of Melling Cottage (ad) A John Hollins short story
The Lonely Old House (ad)
Number Sixty-two (ad) A John Hollins short story
Caravan Holiday (fm) (mo)
The Lost Treasure (ad)
Great-Grandpa's Telescope (ad)
The Case of the Five Dogs (ad) A John Hollins short story [36]
The Wild West Kids (ci)
A Night on Thunder Rock (ad)
A Week Before Christmas (fm)
Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury [30] 1999 - Hodder Headline: Hodder Children's Books
Compiled by Mary Cadogan and Norman Wright
Ill. various, from original editions of stories and extracts
Line illustration colouring by Wendy Purdie
Descriptions of some items as "an extract" are from the volume itself; the
other descriptions are supplied by myself.
Foreword by Helen Cresswell
Introduction by Mary Cadogan and Norman Wright
The Secret Cave 1929 (ad) short story
The Hidey-Hole 1932 (ad) short story
The Secret Island 1938 - an extract
The Treasure Hunters 1940 - an extract
The Secret of Spiggy Holes 1940 - an extract
Five on a Treasure Island 1942 - an extract
The Secret of Cliff Castle 1943 - an extract
Smuggler Ben 1943 (ad) short novel
earlier appearances:
1943: Laurie, as by Mary Pollock
1960: In Mystery Stories (Collins, 1960), as by Enid Blyton
Five Go Adventuring Again 1943 - an extract
The Island of Adventure 1944 - an extract
The Mystery of the Secret Room 1945 - an extract
A Night on Thunder Rock 1947 (ad) short story
Smugglers' Cave [34] 1947 (ad) short story
The Valley of Adventure 1947 - an extract
Number Sixty-Two 1947 (ad) A John Hollins short story
The Case of the Five Dogs 1947 (ad) A John Hollins short story [36]
Five Go off to Camp 1948 - an extract
The Rilloby Fair Mystery 1950 - an extract
Off with the Adventurous Four Again [4] 1951 (ad) A further Adventurous Four short novel
earlier appearances:
1952: In Enid Blyton's Omnibus! (1952)
(As "Off with the Adventurous Four Again!" - that is, with the exclamation mark)
ca. 1997: As a separate small volume (late 1990s); numbered 3 in the series
ca. 1997: As The Adventurous Four: Trapped - possibly revised, as part of a revision of the entire series
Secret Seven on the Trail 1952 - an extract
The Rubadub Mystery 1952 - an extract
Five Go Down to the Sea 1953 - an extract
Good Work, Secret Seven 1954 - an extract
The Adventure of the Secret Necklace 1954 - an extract
Secret Seven Win Through 1955 - an extract
Just a Spot of Bother! 1957 (ad) A further Find-Outers short story
The Five Find-Outers and Dog
Tackle the Mystery Sneak Thief 1962 (ad) A further Find-Outers short story
A Happy Ending undated poem
Afterword [37] undated poem
A Memoir of Enid Blyton by Gillian Baverstock (Enid Blyton's daughter)
JOHN HOLLINS SERIES
This extremely little-known series is a bit of an oddity in Blyton's work: a series of short
stories only. They have never been collected into a single volume, to my knowledge, and I don't
even know how many of them there are. For lack of any better place to put them, I have listed
them together with the short-story collections, which are the only places I have ever seen these
stories. After each story I will name the collection(s) I found it in, using the following
abbreviations:
EBsAT = Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury
SH = The Secret of Skytop Hill and Other Stories
SC = The Smugglers' Caves and Other Stories
The question mark put against one title indicates a story whose central character is called
John, whose surname is not mentioned, but who behaves like a detective, as John Hollins does.
Most John Hollins stories mention his surname, but "John" is a name Blyton often uses for
characters, so it is difficult to be sure whether another story featuring a surnameless John could
nevertheless be part of the series.
If anyone knows more John Hollins stories, and can tell me the title, year of publication,
and where it appears, I would be very grateful if they could please write to me with the details
(please remove the spam block from the "To:" line).
Meanwhile, here are the few titles I already know of:
The Mystery of Melling Cottage SH
Number Sixty-two 1947 SH EBsAT
The Case of the Five Dogs [36] 1947 SH EBsAT
Adventure up a Tree [35] ? SC (Just possibly in the series, but probably not)
Fantasy, and Books for Younger Children
To some extent grouping fantasy and books for younger children together is arbitrary: with Enid Blyton, fantasy does appear to me to have a tendency to be for younger children; but not all younger children's books are necessarily fantasy. I have, however, grouped these two categories together for the pragmatic reason that I have not seen the majority of these books, and cannot determine their character for certain. If I later see more copies of them, or get more detailed information, I will reconsider the way I have categorized the following books.
It is going to be very difficult to sort out the books under this "Fantasy and Books for Younger Children" category, and quite likely there will be errors, omissions, and inconsistencies. I will just have to add information as it comes to me, and update as necessary: if I wait until I have everything right before adding the information to this page, it will simply never get added - and in fact I have already postponed adding it for a couple of years because of uncertainty about it.
If anyone has relevant information or corrections, I would be very grateful if they would please write to me with the details (please remove the spam block from the "To:" line). It would be especially helpful, because this entire area of Blyton's work is one I know far less about than I do the adventure, mystery, school, and family stories - which of course compounds the task of trying to create accurate listings.
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[ BRER RABBIT STORIES - WISHING CHAIR SERIES - AMELIA JANE SERIES - JOSIE, CLICK AND BUN SERIES -
MR. MEDDLE SERIES - MR. PINK-WHISTLE SERIES - JOHN JOLLY SERIES - MR. TWIDDLE SERIES - MARY MOUSE SERIES -
FARAWAY TREE SERIES - TWINS SERIES - PIP SERIES - MR. TUMPY SERIES - NODDY BOOKS - CLICKY SERIES - BOM SERIES ]
BRER RABBIT STORIES
Tales of Brer Rabbit: Retold 1928 - Nelson
Heyo, Brer Rabbit! Tales of Brer Rabbit and His Friends 1938 - Newnes
The Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit 1942 - Newnes
Brer Rabbit and His Friends 1948 - Coker
Brer Rabbit Book (1st) [38] 1948 - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Book (2nd) 19?? - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Book (3rd) 19?? - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Book (4th) 19?? - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Book (5th) 19?? - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Book (6th) 19?? - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Book (7th) 19?? - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Book (8th) 19?? - Latimer House
Brer Rabbit Again [39] 1963 - Dean
Enid Blyton's Brer Rabbit's a Rascal 1965 - Dean
WISHING CHAIR SERIES
Adventures of the Wishing Chair 1937
The Wishing Chair Again 1950
Good Old Wishing-Chair! (short story) 1952 (in Enid Blyton's Omnibus!)
AMELIA JANE SERIES
Naughty Amelia Jane 1939
Amelia Jane Again 1946
More about Amelia Jane 1954
JOSIE, CLICK AND BUN SERIES
The Little Tree House, being the Adventures of Josie, Click and Bun 1940
Reprinted in 1951 as Josie, Click and Bun and the Little Tree House
The Further Adventures of Josie, Click and Bun 1941
Josie, Click and Bun Again 1946
Little Green Duck and Other Stories 1947
More about Josie, Click and Bun, 1947
Welcome Josie, Click and Bun 1952
MR. MEDDLE SERIES
Mr. Meddle's Mischief 1940
Mister Meddle's Muddles 1950
Merry Mister Meddle! 1954
MR. PINK-WHISTLE SERIES
The Adventures of Mr. Pink-Whistle 1941
Mr. Pink-Whistle Interferes 1950
Mr. Pink-Whistle's Party 1955
Mr. Pink-Whistle's Big Book 1958
JOHN JOLLY SERIES
John Jolly at Christmas Time 1942
John Jolly by the Sea 1943
John Jolly on the Farm 1943
John Jolly at the Circus 1945
MR. TWIDDLE SERIES
Hello, Mr. Twiddle 1942
Don't be Silly, Mr. Twiddle 1949
Well Really Mr. Twiddle! 1953
MARY MOUSE SERIES
Mary Mouse and the Doll's House 1942
More Adventures of Mary Mouse 1943
Little Mary Mouse Again 1943
Hallo, Little Mary Mouse 1945
Mary Mouse and her Family 1946
Here Comes Mary Mouse Again 1947
How Do You Do, Mary Mouse 1948
We Do Love Mary Mouse 1950
Welcome Mary Mouse 1950
A Prize for Mary Mouse 1951
Hurrah for Mary Mouse 1951
Mary Mouse and her Bicycle 1952
Mary Mouse and the Noah's Ark 1953
Mary Mouse to the Rescue 1954
Mary Mouse in Nursery Rhyme Land 1955
A Day with Mary Mouse 1956
Mary Mouse and the Garden Party 1957
Mary Mouse Goes to the Fair 1958
Mary Mouse Has a Wonderful Idea 1959
Mary Mouse Goes to Sea 1960
Mary Mouse Goes Out for the Day 1961
Fun with Mary Mouse 1962
Mary Mouse and the Little Donkey 1964
FARAWAY TREE SERIES
The Magic Faraway Tree 1943
The Folk of the Faraway Tree 1946
Up the Faraway Tree 1951
The Faraway Tree (short story) 1952 (in Enid Blyton's Omnibus!)
TWINS SERIES - Brockhampton
The Twins go to Nursery-Rhyme Land 1945
Tales of the Twins 1948 Ill. Eileen A. Soper
Hello Twins 1951
Come Along Twins 1952
Here Come the Twins 1953
Trouble for the Twins 1964
PIP SERIES
The Adventures of Pip 1948
More Adventures of Pip 1948
MR. TUMPY SERIES
Mr. Tumpy and his Caravan 1949
Mr. Tumpy plays a Trick on Saucepan 1952
Mr. Tumpy in the Land of Wishes 1953
Mr. Tumpy in the Land of Boys and Girls 1955
NODDY BOOKS
Little Noddy Goes to Toyland 1949
Hurrah for Little Noddy 1950
A Tale of Little Noddy 1951
Here Comes Noddy Again 1951
Noddy and Big Ears Have a Picnic 1951
Noddy and His Car 1951
Noddy Goes to the Seaside 1951
Noddy Has a Shock 1951
Noddy Has more Adventures 1951
Noddy off to Rocking Horse Land 1951
Noddy Painting Book 1951
Noddy's House of Books 1951
The Big Noddy Book 1951
First of a series. Followed by the Big Noddy Books 2-8
Noddy and Big Ears 1952
Noddy and the Witch's Wand 1952
Noddy Colour Strip Book 1952
Noddy Goes to School 1952
Noddy's Ark of Book 1952
Noddy's Penny Wheel Car 1952
Noddy's Car gets a Squeak 1952
Well Done, Noddy 1952
New Noddy Colour Strip Book 1953
Noddy and the Cuckoo's Nest 1953
Noddy at the Seaside 1953
Noddy Cut-Out Model Book 1953
Noddy gets Captured 1953
Noddy is Very Silly 1953
Noddy's Garage of Books 1953
The New Big Noddy Book 1953
Enid Blyton's Noddy Giant Painting Book 1954
Enid Blyton's Noddy Pop-up Book 1954
How Funny You Are, Noddy! 1954
Noddy and the Magic Rubber 1954
Noddy's Castle of Books 1954
Noddy in Toyland 1955
Noddy meets Father Christmas 1955
You Funny Little Noddy 1955
A Day with Noddy 1956 a day with mary mouse link
Be Brave, Little Noddy! 1956
Enid Blyton's Noddy Playday Painting Book 1956
Enid Blyton's Book of her famous play; Noddy in Toyland 1956
Noddy and his Friends (A pop-up picture book) 1956
Noddy and Tessie Bear 1956
Noddy Nursery Rhymes 1956
The Noddy Toy Station Books 1956
Nos. 1-5
Do Look Out, Noddy 1957
Noddy and Bumpy Dog 1957
Noddy's New Big Book 1957
My Noddy Picture Book 1958
Noddy Has an Adventure 1958
Noddy's Own Nursery Rhymes 1958
The Noddy Shop Book 1958
Nos. 1-5
You're a Good Friend, Noddy 1958
A.B.C. with Noddy 1959
Noddy and Bunkey 1959
Noddy Goes to Sea 1959
Noddy's Car Picture Book 1959
Cheer Up, Little Noddy 1960
Noddy Goes to the Fair 1960
Noddy's One, Two, Three Book 1960
Noddy's Tall Blue Book 1960
Also Green, Orange, Pink, Red and Yellow Books. Six books in all
Mr. Plod and Little Noddy 1961
Noddy's Toyland Train Picture Book 1961
A Day at School with Noddy 1962
Noddy and the Tootles 1962
Noddy and the Aeroplane 1964
Learn to Count with Noddy 1965
Learn to Go Shopping with Noddy 1965
Learn to Read About Animals with Noddy 1965
Learn to Tell the Time with Noddy 1965
Noddy and His Friends. A Nursery picture book 1965
Noddy Treasure Box 1965
Noddy and his Passengers 1967
Noddy and the Magic Boots. (With Noddy's Funny Kite.) 1967
Cover bears the title "Noddy's Funny Kite"
Noddy and the Noah's Ark Adventure Picture Book 1967
Noddy in Toyland Picture Book 1967
Noddy Toyland ABC Picture Book 1967
Noddy's Aeroplane Picture Book 1967
CLICKY SERIES
Clicky the Clockwork Clown 1953
Clicky gets into Trouble 1958
Clicky and Tiptoe 1960
Happy Holiday, Clicky 1961
BOM SERIES
Bom the Little Toy Drummer 1956
Bom and His Magic Drumstick 1957
Enid Blyton's Bom Painting Book 1957
Bom Goes Adventuring 1958
Bom and the Clown 1959
Bom and the Rainbow 1959
Hello Bom and Wuffy Dog 1959
Bom Goes to Magic Town 1960
Here Comes Bom 1960
Bom at the Seaside, 1961
Bom Goes to the Circus 1961
Bible stories, religion
Note:
My information about this category is incomplete and very uncertain; many of the titles have been placed here by pure guesswork judging by the titles, because I have never seen copies of any of these books. But, since I've been told that I already included some Bible stories wrongly elsewhere in this listing (which I have now moved to here), and have been supplied with a couple of further titles of Bible stories, I've made a tentative attempt at listing Bible stories. Please bear in mind that, other than the two titles I've been supplied with, the others are only guesses on my part, based on the titles of the books, plus publisher and illustrator information, which is often consistent for an entire series. My thanks to Eleanor Stewart Garth for information which helped me in the early stages of working out this listing.
The Land of Far-Beyond [40] 1942
The Children's Life of Christ 1943 - Methuen
The Boy With the Loaves and the Fishes 1948 - Lutterworth Ill. Elsie Walker
The Little Girl at Capernaum 1948 - Lutterworth Ill. Elsie Walker
The Very Big Secret 1952 - Lutterworth Ill. Ruth Gervis
The Enid Blyton Bible Stories:
New Testament (14 books) 1953 - Macmillan
Enid Blyton's Christmas Story 1953 - Hamish Hamilton Ill. Fritz Wegner
Bible Stories from the Old Testament 1955 - Muller Ill. Grace Lodge
Bible Stories from the New Testament 1955 - Muller Ill. Grace Lodge
Story Book of Jesus 1956 - Macmillan Ill. Elsie Walker
The Man Who Stopped to Help 1965 - Lutterworth Ill. Elsie Walker
Other titles
Enid Blyton's Treasury 1947 - Evans for Boots
The Story of My Life 1952 - Pitkin (Autobiography)
Visitors in the Night 1953 - Brockhampton
Books about Enid Blyton and her life and work
[Details on this will appear later when I have organized my information.]
Web sites about Enid Blyton and her life and work
[Details on this will appear later when I have organized my information.]
Notes
[1] Various adventure stories:
Stoney omits "The" from a number of titles, each marked with "[1]". There
seems no pattern nor reason to it, and I can assume it's due to nothing more
than carelessness. This is a habit many bibliographic sources seem to have,
even ones which are otherwise attentive to details; but the books themselves
clearly begin their titles with "The".
The titles in question are: The Children of Kidillin, The Mystery
of the Secret Room, The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters, The
Mystery of the Missing Man, The Mystery of the Strange Messages,
The Mystery of Banshee Towers, The River of Adventure, The
Rilloby Fair Mystery, The Ring-O'-Bells Mystery, The Rat-a-tat
Mystery, The Ragamuffin Mystery, and The Adventure of the Strange
Ruby. [Back to Adventure and mystery stories]
[2] The Treasure Hunters, The Boy Next Door, Hollow Tree
House, Holiday House, The Adventure of the Strange Ruby,
The Mystery That Never Was:
These books have been adapted into a series of books, all with the same
characters, by Enid Blyton's daughter Gillian Baverstock. I do not know at
present just how different these are from the originals.
The revised editions are under the following titles, but I do not know if
this is the correct order of the series:
The Riddle of Holiday House (Holiday House)
The Riddle of the Boy Next Door (The Boy Next Door)
The Riddle of the Hidden Treasure (The Treasure Hunters)
The Riddle of the Hollow Tree (Hollow Tree House)
The Riddle of the Rajah's Ruby (The Adventure of the Strange Ruby)
The Riddle That Never Was (The Mystery That Never Was)
(I have the ghost of a memory that The Secret of Cliff Castle (the first
story in Mystery Stories) may have possibly been included in this series
as The Riddle of Cliff Castle - but I am far from sure whether this
memory is reliable or not. I will update this information if I find out, or if
I ascertain any further details about this series. I will welcome any
information from readers if they can
e-mail it
to me (please remove the spam block
from the "To:" line).)
[Back to The Treasure Hunters]
[Back to The Boy Next Door]
[Back to Hollow Tree House] [Back to Holiday House]
[Back to The Adventure of the
Strange Ruby] [Back to
The Mystery That Never Was]
[3] Adventurous Four series:
These books have been released in the 1990s under the titles The
Adventurous Four: Shipwrecked, The Adventurous Four: Stranded, and The
Adventurous Four: Trapped (possibly with exclamation marks included at the end
of each title). I haven't read these, so I don't know whether they are revised
or even completely rewritten, as so many Enid Blyton books are these days.
[Back to Adventurous Four series]
[4] Off With the Adventurous Four Again!:
This short novel has appeared four times, to my knowledge:
(a) The first publication was in Enid Blyton's Omnibus! (1952), which
contained further short additions to several Blyton series.
(b) The story was issued as a separate short book in the late 1990s. I
haven't seen this edition, so I cannot be more definite about the date.
(c) The story was also issued separately in the late 1990s as The
Adventurous Four: Trapped. Once again, I haven't seen this, so I can't give much
information; but I'm not sure if this is a revised or even rewritten version or
not. Now that many of Enid Blyton's books are appearing in completely rewritten
versions or adaptations, often under new titles, I cannot take it for granted
that this version of the book is the same as the original version without seeing
it for myself.
(d) The story also appears in Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury (1999).
This source removes the exclamation mark from the title, and gives its year as
1951, not 1952, the year of its appearance in Enid Blyton's Omnibus!, which is
the first publication of this story that I know of. 1951 could be correct, in
that I have no way of knowing for sure whether the 1952 appearance is in fact
the first publication of this story. It does lead me to wonder if the story
appeared first in a periodical in 1951 - something I am not currently able to
determine. [Back to Adventurous Four series]
[Back to Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury]
[5] Just George series:
These books, aimed at a younger audience than the main series, are about
George and Timmy before they meet their cousins Julian, Dick, and Anne for the
first time in Five on a Treasure Island. [Back to Famous Five series]
[6] Famous Five American titles:
Two U.S. titles are Five Guard a Hidden Discovery and Five Find a
Secret Way; but I have not yet been able to find out what main (British)
titles they are paired with. It should be noted that, even with the U.S. titles
I have paired with British titles, frequently I do not have actual
references to corroborate that linking; often I have surmised it from personal
knowledge of the plots, which obviously link certain titles together with near
certainty.
If anyone is able to give me a complete listing of the American titles of
these books, either in numerical order, or paired with the British titles as
given on this web page, I would be very grateful if they could send it to me.
[Back to Famous Five series]
[7] Five Go to Smuggler's Top:
Stoney gives "Smugglers'" - but the book itself gives "Smuggler's".
[Back to Famous Five series]
[8] French Famous Five books:
The series of French publications also included French translations (with
some changes to the text beyond mere translation) of Blyton's 21 original
novels. This listing is primarily focused on English-language texts, and thus I
have not listed translations of works by Blyton herself which appeared
originally in English. Accordingly, this listing includes only those titles not
written by Blyton herself, whose original versions were therefore in another
language.
Thanks to David Rudd for the listing of titles, plus additional information
about them. [Back to Famous Five series]
[9] Adventure series:
At least some of these books have been adapted (in much shorter form, and
under new titles) from what I believe is a television series of the books.
(I've never seen nor directly heard of such a television series, nor read these
versions, but merely seen some of them in bookshops - which is why I sound a
little tentative in this note.) [Back to Adventure series]
[10] "The Wonderful Adventure" and "At Seaside Cottage":
These two Secret-Seven-related stories are not included in the collection
The Secret Seven Short Story Collection. It is open to question whether these
are real Secret Seven stories: some of the characters appear to be the same as
characters in the Secret Seven novels, but certain details of background differ.
Thanks to David Rudd for information on these stories, one of which ("The
Wonderful Adventure") I have not read myself. For that matter, I do not even
know how long it is: whether it is a short story that appeared only in a
periodical or collection; whether it is a short story or short novel that
appeared in a separate small volume or chapbook; or whether it is a full-length
novel. If anyone has read this, I would appreciate any information they can
send me about its plot and length, where it appeared, and so on. Please
e-mail
me with any information (please remove the spam block from the "To:" line).
I have read The Secret of the Old Mill, and it describes the start of the
Secret Seven; but so does the novel The Secret Seven - and the two accounts are
entirely different, although presumably (if the principles of real life applied
here) the Secret Seven Society could only begin once, and in a particular way.
It suggests to me the possibility that The Secret of the Old Mill might have
been written without a series in mind; then, when Enid Blyton decided to develop
the Secret Seven into a series of books, she may have wanted to change the way
they began. [Back to Secret Seven series]
[11] The Secret of the Old Mill:
The version of this story in The Secret Seven Short Story Collection
is called "The Secret of Old Mill" (omitting the second "the").
[Back to Secret Seven stories]
[12] Secret Seven: original series:
In titles 5, 8, and 14, some sources give a comma in the middle of the
title, which I would think to be more correct from a grammatical point of view;
nevertheless, as far as I can determine, these titles are as given, without the
comma, even though a couple of other similar titles do include the comma.
[Back to Secret Seven: original series]
[13] Well Done, Secret Seven and Good Work, Secret Seven:
Sources differ on whether these two titles should include a comma before
the words "Secret Seven": title listings inside the hardcover editions of the
series omit the commas, but Stoney includes them.
[Back to Secret Seven series]
[14] French Secret Seven books:
Thanks to David Rudd for providing me with this list of additional Secret
Seven titles in French. [Back to Secret Seven series]
[15] Various school stories:
Stoney omits "The" from a number of titles, each marked with "[15]". There
seems no pattern nor reason to it, and I can assume it's due to nothing more
than carelessness. This is a habit many bibliographic sources seem to have,
even ones which are otherwise attentive to details; but the books themselves
clearly begin their titles with "The".
The titles in question are: The Naughtiest Girl in the School,
The Naughtiest Girl Again, and The Naughtiest Girl Is a Monitor.
[Back to School stories]
[16] Here's the Naughtiest Girl:
Included in Enid Blyton's Omnibus! (1952), and published in a
separate (small) volume in the late 1990s. [Back to Naughtiest Girl series]
[17] Further titles by Anne Digby:
Book 4 was not originally published overtly as part of the main series. It
was numbered 4 when it was issued recently as a separate (small) volume. Anne
Digby's 6 sequels were also integrated into the main series and numbered 5 to
10, as given in the listing. [Back to Further titles by Anne Digby]
[18] Malory Towers series:
Note that the first word in the title of this series, and in the name of
the school it is about, is spelled "Malory" - not "Mallory", a misspelling which
appears to be extremely common. [Back to Malory
Towers series]
[19] Second Form at Malory Towers:
According to Stoney, the title is "The Second Form..." - but the
paperback edition I have is just "Second Form...". The inconsistency
Stoney shows in the matter of including or excluding "The" at the start of
a title is enough to make me trust the title given in my paperback edition in
preference to Stoney. [Back to Malory Towers series]
[20] Mischief at St. Rollo's:
My information for this book is confusing, and in fact contradictory.
Stoney gives the original year, publisher, and writer's name as 1947, Laurie,
and Mary Pollock. Mason Willey's web site
(http://masonwilley.tripod.com/enidblyton) gives these details as Newnes, 1943,
and makes no mention of the Mary Pollock pseudonym - even though this appears to
be a quite accurate and reliable source of information. The latter source
mentions the illustrator as being Hilda McGavin.
[Back to Mischief at St. Rollo's]
[21] The Children of Cherry Tree Farm:
Stoney omits "The" from a number of titles, including this one. There seems
no pattern nor reason to it, and I can assume it's due to nothing more than
carelessness. This is a habit many bibliographic sources seem to have, even
ones which are otherwise attentive to details; but the books themselves clearly
begin their titles with "The". Thus this title is really The Children of
Cherry Tree Farm. [Back to Cherry Tree Farm /
Willow Farm series]
[22] Adventures on Willow Farm:
I believe, but have not been able to establish so far, that this is an
omnibus edition of the preceding two titles. This is probably based on a
memory, now vague, of having read this - but until I can substantiate it with a
definite reference, I do not feel I can state it here as an unqualified fact.
[Back to Cherry Tree Farm / Willow Farm series]
[23] Happy House series:
I am a little confused about some details in this series, and it is
possible that it can be accounted for simply by postulating a retitling of a
book which I don't have hard evidence for.
The Happy House Children is an omnibus volume containing both The Happy
House Children (confusingly bearing the same title as the omnibus volume) and
The Happy House Children Again, both of which are half-novel in length. Yet it
would seem, from the information I have, that there is no single story called
"The Happy House Children", and that this title applies only to the omnibus. I
would assume, but cannot be sure, that the first of these two novellas is a
retitled version of The Children at Happy House, and that therefore the omnibus
edition contains the first two stories in this series.
[Back to Happy House Children series]
[24] Benjy and the Others:
On the face of it, this doesn't look like a part of the series, all of
whose titles include the phrase "Happy House". But I am told by Eleanor Stewart
Garth that this title is part of the series, in spite of its title not including
this phrase. [Back to Happy House series]
[25] The House at the Corner:
Stoney gives the title as The House at the Corner; but a more recent
paperback edition gives it as House-at-the-Corner.
[Back to The House at the Corner]
[26] Mr. Galliano's Circus series:
The books are not numbered, hence the square brackets around the numbers
I've given, which indicate the series order.
[Back to Mr. Galliano's Circus series]
[27] Hurrah for the Circus!:
The full title is given on Mason Willey's web site
(http://masonwilley.tripod.com/enidblyton) as Hurrah for the Circus!: Being
Further Adventures of Mister Galliano and His Famous Circus.
[Back to Mr. Galliano's Circus series]
[28] Short Story Collections:
There are so many of these, many of them very difficult to obtain now, that
I cannot even attempt to be comprehensive in this area. However, where I have a
collection myself, I will include a listing of its titles, and indicate any
stories that belong to a series, or are in some way related to a series of
novels.
This will probably never amount to a large proportion of the collections
that exist: I do not collect short-story collections, unless there are items in
them of special interest. (I cannot collect everything: there are constraints
on book-storage space, time to read them, and so on.)
I have attempted to indicate the style or genre of short stories, in cases
where I've read them. To some extent, there is a blurring between different
types of story, so the classification is based solely on my own opinion after
reading the story. I sometimes apply two or more classifications to a story
when they seem equally or almost equally prominent. I have used the following
symbols:
(ad) indicates adventure stories: suspenseful or dangerous events (what
constitutes this may be a matter of opinion, but I use it mainly to refer to
events beyond the everyday, such as crime or detection or finding treasure, and
so on).
(an) indicates animal stories: the plot centres mainly around an animal - a
common story them in Blyton. The animal is usually a pet animal, but
occasionally about a wild bird or animal. This classification doesn't cover
circus stories, though, which are indicated by "(c)". It also doesn't cover
stories which include an animal, but in which the animal is not the main
theme of the story.
(ci) indicates a circus story.
(ev) indicates what the collection At Seaside Cottage refers to as "everyday"
stories: stories about little incidents or mishaps in everyday life, and their
resolution.
(fm) indicates family stories: about interactions and conflicts between family
members; this implies more serious events with an impact that goes beyond what
could be described as "everyday", as in the (ev) category.
(fn) indicates magical stories: featuring fairies, elves, magic, talking
animals, toys coming alive, and the like.
(he) indicates heroic stories: about a child who does brave deeds or saves an
emergency situation of some kind, and (inevitably) is duly rewarded.
(mo) indicates moral tales: stories with a moral theme: a child learns
important moral lessons, usually after getting into trouble in some way.
While I am not going to even attempt to fully cover collections (Blyton is
said to have written 10,000 short stories!), I will welcome any information from
readers on further collections.
If anyone sends to me the following information about a collection (send to
m j e (no dots or spaces) at remove-spam-block foxall dot com dot au
- see here
if you need help understanding the e-mail address I've given here), I will
consider including it on this page, with credits to the supplier of the
information, unless they request anonymity:
* The title of the collection.
* Bibliographic information such as date of first publication, dates of
individual stories.
* A complete listing of titles of all stories in the collection.
* Indications about whether any of these stories are in any way connected with
other stories (in this or another collection), or with a major series of novels
- no matter how peripheral this connection is. (I regard such connections as
one of the main highlights of this Blyton page, as other Blyton pages I've seen
rarely give this kind of information; so I especially welcome information, no
matter how small or trivial about series links to works that are not normally
associated with a series.) [Back to
Short Story Collections]
[29] Enid Blyton's Omnibus!:
Stoney gives the title as Enid Blyton's Omnibus; however, the book
itself clearly concludes the title with an exclamation mark, thus: Enid
Blyton's Omnibus!, both on the cover and on the title page.
[Back to Enid Blyton's Omnibus!]
[30] At Seaside Cottage; The Smugglers' Caves and Other Stories; The Secret of
Skytop Hill and Other Stories; Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury:
These are posthumous collections of stories that probably first appeared in
collections during Blyton's life-time. There are so many collections
(posthumous and otherwise), and no way that I know of tracking down even the
mere titles of them all, never mind their contents, so I am not even going to
attempt to cover them fully on this page. [Back to Short Story Collections]
[31] At Seaside Cottage:
According to blurbs on the book's back cover and inside the front cover,
this collection contains "... thirteen stories about everyday things" which
"... include many of the experiences of day-to-day life which are comfortingly
familiar to the young child".
This description is very descriptive of the contents of the book: none of
the stories are adventure stories, and none of them feature magical elements
such as elves, fairies, talking animals, or toys coming alive. (One or two
references to animals talking appear to be poetic licence only, a sort of
humanizing of animals or birds, rather than a real story about animals that can
talk.) [Back to At Seaside Cottage]
[32] "At Seaside Cottage":
This story with its three parts is listed in the Contents page, and
presented in the book, as if it were three separate stories with the titles "At
Seaside Cottage Part 1", "At Seaside Cottage Part 2", "At Seaside Cottage Part
3". In fact they are a single story effectively divided into three chapters:
Although the titles make this reasonably clear, the presentation could make the
stories appear more separate than in fact they are.
[Back to At Seaside Cottage]
[33] "At Seaside Cottage": Predecessor to Secret Seven series:
"At Seaside Cottage" is a forerunner to the Secret Seven series, in that it
features two children called Peter and Janet and their golden spaniel Scamper.
Possibly it was written before Blyton had even conceived the Secret Seven books,
and shares no elements in common with them, plot-wise: there are no details that
I can see which link with details given in the later series: no other characters
from the series appear in the story; there is no indication about where Peter
and Janet live, and so on; if you changed the characters' and dog's names, there
would be nothing to link the stories with the series. But it would appear that
when Blyton conceived the Secret Seven series later, she deliberately used the
characters in the earlier story.
"At Seaside Cottage" is set some years earlier, since Peter and Janet are
seven and six years old, respectively. [Back to Secret Seven series]
[34] "The Smugglers' Caves" and "Smugglers' Cave":
The similarity of titles of these two stories could give rise to the
suspicion that they are the same story, with one edition having its title
slightly revised. But in fact, they are completely different stories.
[Back to The Smugglers' Caves and Other Stories] [Back to Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury]
[35] "Adventure up a Tree":
There are a number of short adventure stories featuring a boy detective
called John Hollins, although I don't know how many. It is just possible that
this story could be in this series, since it features a boy called John, but no
surname is mentioned. However, I think it is unlikely to be part of this
series: the coincidence of the character being called John is not sufficient to
reach this conclusion, because Enid Blyton very frequently uses the name John
for various characters; and there is nothing beyond this to link this story with
John Hollins: in the series centred on John Hollins, not only is his surname
usually (but not always) given, but it is mentioned several times that he is
known by his friends and family as a clever boy detective.
In "Adventure up a Tree", this is not mentioned at all, even though John
does end up acting like a detective. However, children becoming detectives
(intentionally or not) is a very common theme in Blyton's adventure stories, and
in this case it looks like John just "fell" into the adventure by happenstance,
and did not set out to solve a mystery.
Because of all this, I conclude that "Adventure up a Tree" is probably not
in the John Hollins series. However, because there is at least a slim
possibility that it was intended as part of this series, I have marked it as
possibly part of the series - with a question mark - so that the reader can make
up his or her own mind on this. [Back to The Smugglers' Caves and Other Stories]
[Back to John Hollins series]
[36] "The Case of the Five Dogs":
I have counted this as a John Hollins story, although, unlike the other
John Hollins stories I've seen, this one does not mention his surname at all.
But what this story has in common with the others is that John is known by
friends, family, and so on as a boy detective, and names him "Detective John".
(In two of the three stories I have seen featuring John Hollins, he acts alone,
so it is not possible to compare the names of friends of his to establish common
characters, which would in turn definitely establish which stories are
series-related, and which not.) [Back to The Secret of Skytop Hill and Other Stories]
[Back to Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury] [Back to John Hollins series]
[37] "Afterword":
This poem mentions several of the stories and characters found in various
stories and extracts within the book, which makes me wonder (but unable to
confirm) whether it originally appeared in a short-story collection which also
contained some of the same stories. Indeed, I cannot help wondering whether it
appeared in Enid Blyton's Treasury (1947), and whether that is a similar sort of
volume to the current one (that is, containing both extracts from well-known
novels and adventure short stories), and whether even perhaps both volumes have
a large proportion of their contents in common.
[Back to Enid Blyton's Adventure Treasury]
[38] Brer Rabbit Book (1 - 8):
Stoney lists the first of these eight books under its year of publication,
then mentions that it was followed by seven more books, without itemizing them
individually or giving their year of publication. [Back to Brer Rabbit stories]
[39] Brer Rabbit Again:
A Brer Rabbit title published by Dean is probably missing, presumably by
oversight on Stoney's part. "Brer Rabbit Again" is unlikely to be the
first of a series of Brer Rabbit titles - and I do remember a series of three
Brer Rabbit books published by Dean from my own childhood, of which only the
second and third titles are listed here. Whether the first book (whose exact
title I don't remember) is a reprinting of one of the earlier Brer Rabbit books
listed here, I don't know. [Back to Brer Rabbit
stories]
[40] The Land of Far-Beyond:
This is a reworking for children of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's
Progress, written in the late 1600s. [Back to
The Land of Far-Beyond]
NOTE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THIS PAGE - Wednesday, 6 June, 2001:
This page is obviously incomplete, as anyone who knows a bit about its
subject will be able to see immediately. Please go here for
an explanation about the setback that is responsible for my not completing this
page, and why it may never be completed, or why it may happen only very slowly.
Not that this makes any real difference to someone who would like to see the
page complete - but I feel I should at least explain the situation.
I will leave this page here, incomplete as it is, in case the information
already written is useful to some readers researching a topic they may have
difficulty finding information about on the Internet.
The above listing probably contains most of Blyton's best-known works, with
the exception of books for very young children such as the Noddy books, the
Faraway Tree books, and the like. These haven't been included so far because I
don't know a lot about them, which in turn is probably because I am not so
interested in them, so haven't researched them so much.
However, I have access to fairly complete listings of Blyton's work - as
complete as probably exists, that is, considering that a completely definitive
catalogue of her work probably still doesn't exist - and I do intend to include
all this information in due course. It's a matter of spending a lot of time
organizing information from various sources into something approaching an
intelligible format. There are, of course, also many other little-known works
which are not included either.
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