Enid Blyton`s Children’s Books
Enid Blyton one of the world’s most successful children’s book authors, wrote over 760 books, selling more than 600 million copies worldwide and her books were translated into over 80 languages.
Her books are as popular with children today enjoying the fantastic range of stories and book series and all the different characters throughout. Enid wrote her books off the top of her head, she didn’t pre plan stories, and wrote up to 50 books a year. Rumours said she had an army of ghost writers, but she always denied these rumours.
Very popular series include The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, Malory Towers, The Naughtiest Girl Collection, St Clare’s, Amelia Jane and The Faraway Tree Collection.
The Famous Five, the adventures of four children and a dog, the stories are set when the kids are on school holidays, they all return from their boarding schools and get caught up in an adventures together, usually involving lost treasures and criminals. The Famous Five is one of the biggest selling children’s series of all time.
The Secret Seven or otherwise known as The Secret Seven Society, are a group of seven children who are child detectives, they all go to the same day school.
Malory Towers is based on a girl who attends a new boarding school and how she wants to fit in and get new friends, stories are about her making friends and the adventures she gets up to while at school.
The Naughtiest Girl collection is about a really naughty girl who is so badly behaved her child minder leaves, her parents send her to a boarding school, and she decides she is going to behave so badly that they will have to expel her. But then she realises that she was very lonely being an only child and decides to behave herself at school so she can stay with her friends.
The Faraway Tree Collection, stories are based in an enchanted forest in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous "Faraway Tree". The tree is so tall that the top of it branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The forest and the tree are discovered by three children named Jo, Bessie, and Fanny, who move into a house nearby. It is then that they start their adventures to the top of the tree.
My eight year old has read most of the David Walliams books.I've also read Mr Stink and Gangsta Granny myself just to see why his books are so popular. We loved them. All his books are great funny. Personally I find some of the humour in the books suited to adults rather than kid. The billionaire boy is a great example. His father after earning all the money with his popular product called bum wipes, attracts a lot of undesriable attention from a model. The model was a star in certain page of a magazine, namely the third page of the magazine ! Funny but definitely more adult than kid humour.
