to keep the fabulous thing I found in the loft of rented property today?

[BalloonTwister]

It's a whole box of Enid Blyton books! Famous Five, St Claires, Mallory Towers, it's all here. Even the faraway tree! Only paperbacks, not much loved 1st editions or anything. What if they belong to my landlord though? (Wanders off down memory lane clutching a famous five book)

Ah bof, thank you! I could not, for the life of me, work out what was wrong with dds malory towers books but that is it! They were sanitised! Yay, another 'can't quite lay my finger on it' solved

i find it a bit odd all these grown ups obsessed with books about boarding schools and imps

What the Jeff???? Just found a book called The Famous Five in Fancy Dress....didn't ring any bells, so opened the cover and it says inside "a new adventure of the characters created by Enid Blyton, told by Claude Voilier, translated by Anthea Bell"

Clearly ripping off classic childrens authors is not a new thing though Jareth because this editio was published in 1983!!!

The rest seem to be as I remember though, thankfully.

alberto

The minute I read the Op I thought of The Magic Faraway Tree!!! I wanted to eat a whole bucket of pop biscuits

Am very my dd1 has started reading famous five and we keep an eye in second hand shops, would buyer someone's hand off for a box load!

Balloon thatll be 1950 style fan fic. Bet it gets a bit racy saucy....

It just transports you back to your childhood, I think, southeastastra. Rather than actually reflecting a current pixie obsession and a yearning for apple-pie beds

BOF

Why not contact the LL and ask if you can have/buy them?

Fwiw, I'm an inventory clerk. We don't include lofts in our inventories. All items placed/left in the loft by the LL are done so at Their own risk...

HTH ;-)

my sister scribbled all over my Enid Blyton books. The cow.

I loved Mallory Towers and the rest. I seem to remember a character called Moonface, from The Faraway Tree?!

Argh. Stratters is right. Fucking travesty! Grrr

Ooo I have all of those Enid Blytons plus Naughty Amelia Jane! I was going to bin them, should I put them on ebay?

Sell them to me toad

Ahhh the Famous Five! I've not thought about them in years...

I've still got all mine from when I was a child - lots of them are hardbacks that were my mother's when she was little.

Do I win?

I remember the fake Claude Wotsit Famous Five books. Grrr.

You could contact landlord & see if it's ok to have them - otherwise read then leave.

(If they were Antonia Forest I'd nick them without hesitation mind...)

I've got a bookcase of old Enid Blyton! DS is just getting into them now. I even have 'Five go camping' (I think that's the title, the one with the ghost trains) which says how they were so covered in soot that they 'looked like niggers' Will be buying an updated version of that one I think.

The weird 1980s fan fiction books are utter shite. I was given some by a cousin and they are entirely George-centric and utterly implausible.

Plausibility being the main theme of Enid Blyton, of course.

They have obviously been forgotten. I have just read some younger Enid Blyton's to my DD, and I don't think anyone who has owned them, but not thought to take or come back for them would begrudge you keeping them. They're not worth more than a couple of pounds each - I know because I've bought some old ones on e-bay for DD, so it's not like you're robbing someone of their inheritance.

Yes Worra I was surprised by how shite they were. As a child the wishing chair books perfectly evoked a magical Edwardian childhood. Did't get that at all this time round.

BalloonTwister whereabouts in Kent? I seem to recall losing a box of Enid Blytons when we moved from Ashford...

BalloonTwister whereabouts in Kent? I seem to recall losing a box of Enid Blytons when we moved from Ashford...

Oooh and there weren't any Anastasia Krupnik books in there too, were there?