Children’s book author – Enid Blyton
Posted by susanabraham2007 on April 16, 2007
Here is a rare clip of England’s legendary children’s book writer of all time, the prolific Enid Blyton. One of the world’s top bestselling authors of the last century, she wrote some 120 novels, more than 700 other books and and an estimation of 10,000 stories.
Here Blyton is photographed with her spaniel, Laddie, who is licking her daughter, Imogen’s face while her older daughter Gillian, points to something with which to arrest her mother’s attention and gaiety. - susan abraham
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the Wandering Author said
I know who she is, of course, but what is bothering me right now is that I can’t, for the life of me, recall if I’ve read any of her books. I probably have, but I can’t think of a single title. And yet her name is familiar enough that I’m sure I’ve read some of her books.
Then again, I read so many children’s books I have a hard time recalling titles: for years I remembered the name E. Nesbit, but couldn’t remember what I’d read until I found a collection of her books and remembered some of them. And I know I’ve read more of her books that I still only dimly recall. It’s strange how I can recall scenes from a book, but not the author or title.
anne said
Noddy was one of her more well-read characters. The Wikipedia entry on her is pretty good, too.
Thanks for reminding us of her, Susan!!
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