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Enid Blyton the Untold Story
ENID BLYTON AS YOU'VE NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE
This new biography of Enid Blyton will open your eyes to little known facts about her professional life that have never been fully revealed before.
You'll be thrilled when you discover how she used her little known artistic and literary endowments and her amazing photographic memory in her work as a professional storyteller and universal teacher.
More than this, you'll see that, apart from writing over seven hundred storybooks for children, she was also a naturalist, poet, columnist & feature writer, editor of educational books, universal teacher, prolific songwriter (over 300 songs), professional storyteller, playwright, artist & illustrator and a passionate gardener.
By the time you reach the end you'll discover strange talents you never knew she possessed, marvel at how she was able to do all the things described in this book while writing storybooks and wonder why they have never been made known before.
You'll learn, perhaps for the first time, how she wrote her stories and consider three theories I put forward to account for the phenomenon.
You'll also see how the poor quality of some of her stories was caused by a curious set of circumstances now revealed for the first time.
Through this fascinating biography, you now have the unique opportunity to see Enid Blyton in a light that has never been shone on her before.
This new biography of Enid Blyton will open your eyes to little known facts about her professional life that have never been fully revealed before.
You'll be thrilled when you discover how she used her little known artistic and literary endowments and her amazing photographic memory in her work as a professional storyteller and universal teacher.
More than this, you'll see that, apart from writing over seven hundred storybooks for children, she was also a naturalist, poet, columnist & feature writer, editor of educational books, universal teacher, prolific songwriter (over 300 songs), professional storyteller, playwright, artist & illustrator and a passionate gardener.
By the time you reach the end you'll discover strange talents you never knew she possessed, marvel at how she was able to do all the things described in this book while writing storybooks and wonder why they have never been made known before.
You'll learn, perhaps for the first time, how she wrote her stories and consider three theories I put forward to account for the phenomenon.
You'll also see how the poor quality of some of her stories was caused by a curious set of circumstances now revealed for the first time.
Through this fascinating biography, you now have the unique opportunity to see Enid Blyton in a light that has never been shone on her before.
382 pages, Hardcover
Published April 18, 2021
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May 25, 2021
I have most of the books that have been written about Enid Blyton and this is definitely the very best yet. It has none of the sensational nonsense trying to hit the headlines, it has been very well researched and has all the information we need to understand why Enid Blyton has been so successful and so loved by children. It also explains how she used her many exceptional skills to 'teach' children through her writing.
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