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Before I Go to Sleep
Bible stories (Catholic) adapted for children.
Hardcover
First published June 1, 2010
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Enid Blyton
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Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, 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.
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, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, 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.
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, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
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January 10, 2022Enid Blyton writes versions of 31 stories from the Bible for young children, one for each night of a (31 day) month, with a prayer to go with each story. The volume also includes a simplified version of the Lord's prayer for children to understand and prayers for various occasions (Christmas, birthday, when a child is sick and when a child has recovered, etc.).
Some might find them quaint these days but it seems to me she wrote the stories well.
Some might find them quaint these days but it seems to me she wrote the stories well.
October 6, 2022
I found this book by accident in a second hand book store. As a child I read Enid Blyton obsessively and loved all of the books I read. The Before I Go to Sleep was one I'd never seen, so finding it was a true treat.
I read it in one evening, and will now return to it through the year, enjoying the teaching and the prayers it incorporates with a fresh respect for my favourite childhood author.
I read it in one evening, and will now return to it through the year, enjoying the teaching and the prayers it incorporates with a fresh respect for my favourite childhood author.
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