Enid Blyton





Enid Blyton

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born
in East Dulwich, South London, The United Kingdom
August 11, 1897

died
November 28, 1968

gender
female

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Anna Sewell, Charles Kingsley, Louisa Mary Alcott, George MacDonald, L...more


About this author

Born in 1897 in South London, Enid Mary Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.

Enid Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories,...more


Average rating: 3.96 · 233,902 ratings · 5,007 reviews · 1,270 distinct works · Similar authors
The Magic Faraway Tree
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 11,470 ratings — published 1943 — 23 editions
The Enchanted Wood
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 7,365 ratings — published 1939 — 24 editions
Five on a Treasure Island (...
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 7,631 ratings — published 1942 — 52 editions
The Faraway Tree Stories (3...
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 5,770 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions
Five Run Away Together (Fam...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 5,441 ratings — published 1944 — 44 editions
Five Go to Smuggler's Top (...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 5,544 ratings — published 1945 — 49 editions
Five Go Adventuring Again (...
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 5,099 ratings — published 1943 — 39 editions
First Term at Malory Towers...
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 5,036 ratings — published 1946 — 24 editions
Five on Kirrin Island Again...
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 4,926 ratings — published 1947 — 32 editions
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 4,039 ratings — published 1946 — 16 editions
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The Faraway Tree (3 books)
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More series by Enid Blyton…
“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.”
Enid Blyton, Five on a Hike Together

“If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.”
Enid Blyton

“I don't believe in things like that - fairies or brownies or magic or anything. It's old-fashioned.'
'Well, we must be jolly old-fashioned then,' said Bessie. 'Because we not only believe in the Faraway Tree and love our funny friends there, but we go to see them too - and we visit the lands at the top of the Tree as well!”
Enid Blyton, The Folk of the Faraway Tree

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