What was your favourite Enid Blyton book?

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When I was a child (80s) read loads of Enid Blyton books (passed down from siblings, library etc) and in the past few months have read loads of these free online (original/early editions, none with updated texts) - prob way more than when I was a child!

Although dated in many ways I have a fondness for the "family" type EB books - (house on the corner, family at red-roofs, six bad boys) which were less well known than Famous five/secret seven etc.

Also I have read several books about EB (biography, book by her agent and a book by her daughter about her childhood) and found these really interesting, of course like all authors/famous people in general who you think you know their lives are more complex (and interesting!) and different to how one would expect and how they are "presented"

I credit the magic faraway tree books for my love of all reading.

I read lots of Famous 5, Mallory towers, Wishing chair and the Adventure series. My favourites though were The Faraway Tree series.

I loved The Adventurous Four, all the Adventure ones - Island of Adventure, Sea of Adventure etc. All the schools ones were good.

However, my soft spot was always for the Faraway Tree books.

To be honest I must have read hundreds of them when I was little she may be abhorred by the politically correct crew now but she really was a very talented and diverse author.

My favourites were, in no particular order The Famous Five
The Adventurous Four
The children of cherry tree farm/ willow farm
The wishing chair adventures
The five findouters
The magic faraway tree
I still have quite a few of my childhood books, as well as some first editions.

Loved The Faraway Tree books and the Adventure books. I also liked Cherry Tree Farm and Willow Farm.

Reading pp's comments, I forgot about Mallory Towers and The Naughtiest Girl In the School too.

I read all of the usual famous five, st Claire's, Malory towers, secret 7. Amelia Jane, wishing chair, cherry tree farm (and the rather odd Mr pinkwhistle) but the 2 that stick in my mind the most are the Magic far away tree (no explanation needed) and the Queen Elizabeth family which was actually a book of my mum's from when she was growing up. It presented such a descriptive and magical view of sailing to New York on the QE2! I remember they had Neapolitan ice cream on the boat and they couldn't believe it (ice cream cake) and the family had to buy extra suitcases to get home as they had received so many presents from the Dad's work colleagues in America. I thought it sounded amazing!

Mallory Towers
Secret Seven
Naughtiest Girl in the School
The Magic Far Away Tree
The Magic Wishing Chair
Red Rooves

I read so many of them.

Most fond of Naughtiest girl series and Those dreadful children (who were all much better behaved than most kids where I lived).

My favourite were The Famous Five, and my favourite Famous Five book was the one set in Wales - maybe Five Get Into A Fix? Although I also really liked Smugglers Top and Five Run Away Together.

I did also love the Faraway Tree.

Magic faraway tree
Only one we read to our kids because a lot is dated and there is much better stuff around nowadays

The Faraway Tree. It had so much in there! Magic, nature, interpersonal relationships, travel, horror, humour.

I’ve read them all my favourites are the adventurous four and the five find puréed and dog.

Five on Fissington (sp?) Farm was my favourite by far, I read it so many times, but the content is now very very outdated. We removed famous five books from book shelves at school for this reason.

St Clare's, Malory Towers and Naughtiest Girl.

Gotta be the faraway tree series. I loved those books

I loved all of them. I had particular five books I loved, especially Five Run Away Together and Five go off in a caravan.
I loved Mallory Towers and The Faraway Tree.
But my two total favourites, to the extent that the books fell apart, were
The Children of Cherry Tree Farm
and
The Secret Island.

I wanted to live on my own secret island and hide from grown ups too!

I loved the secret island. And the others in that series. And the adventurous four.

I think I have probably read something close to every single one and loved all of them: the island of adventure plus series, the Amelia Jane books, the ones about children living in a caravan and going on a ship, the boarding school stories, the faraway tree and the wishing chair, the famous five, secret seven, the mystery books with that annoying policeman.

I forgot the Circus ones. They were great!

I think the Adventurous Four books.

And the Enchanted Wood/Magic Faraway Tree.

To be honest I must have read hundreds of them when I was little she may be abhorred by the politically correct crew now but she really was a very talented and diverse author

Even back in the late 70s/early 80s when I was reading them they were frowned upon. I lived in Devon and the library service had a reading scheme a bit like the Summer Reading Challenge except that it ran all year and you collected points for awards - but Enid Blyton books were excluded from it!

Of the hundreds, the two that stick are Five Go to Smugglers Top (quicksand terror ignited there) and The Six Bad Boys. In fact, I think the six bad...got me into thinking about the social workesque career I've ended up in!

I loved The Christmas Book when I was a kid. Apart from that, I was never an Enid Blyton fan.

I loved red roofs! Also the adventurous four and the boy next door.

My fave series is the Adventure series (circus of adventure etc) which I weirdly read as an adult,