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• Let's Play Peeka! (Waybuloo)
  ...harratt]] are superb. [[Where's Noddy?: Pull-the-tab Surprise Book by Enid Blyton]] continues the hide and seek fun. [[I Can Do Anything That's Everything Al
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• The Man From Pomegranate Street (Roman Mysteries) by Caroline Lawrence
  ...y getting addicted to a book series set in Roman times is better than Enid Blyton's ''Malory Towers'', which held me in thrall aged eleven or so? ...down to the story-telling. While I don't want to be making a case for Enid Blyton when there is much better literature around for kids, she was capable of te
  6 KB (999 words) - 08:55, 26 August 2020
• The Boleyn King (Anne Boleyn Trilogy 1) by Laura Andersen
  ...eth form almost a teenage Tudor version of an [[:Category:Enid Blyton|Enid Blyton]] investigatory collective, we realise that Laura does indeed have a style
  5 KB (840 words) - 15:36, 20 March 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Leigh Hodgkinson
  ...nd [[The Island of Surprises (New Adventures of the Wishing Chair) by Enid Blyton|The Wishing Chair]]) and was fascinated by the crazy world of [[:Category:D
  8 KB (1,447 words) - 21:51, 13 September 2010
• The Night of the Solstice by L J Smith
  ...of that has a similar character dynamic is the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton). I loved how their relationship with each developed throughout and I found
  2 KB (401 words) - 12:39, 25 September 2020
• Shipwrecked (The Adventures of Titch and Mitch) by Garth Edwards
  The stories are reminiscent of Enid Blyton, with pixies and fairies and chatty animals, only they don't seem to have t
  3 KB (460 words) - 10:33, 6 May 2018
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
  ...rather reflect 1950s school stories such as those by Angela Brazil or Enid Blyton: it's quite acceptable for pupils to have occasional midnight feasts, or pl
  3 KB (462 words) - 16:22, 11 August 2020
• Five on a Treasure Island - Famous Five by Enid Blyton
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• The Queen of Dreams by Peter Hamilton
  ...e at times, perhaps even a little old-fashioned. I was put in mind of Enid Blyton more than I was of contemporary middle grade fantasies by Eoin Colfer or Al
  3 KB (476 words) - 15:36, 14 March 2018
• Adventure Island: the Mystery of the Drowning Man by Helen Moss
  ...modernity the adventures still retain a flavour of [[:Category:Enid Blyton|Blyton]], Ransome and others: an idyllic world where crime and danger abound but w
  5 KB (779 words) - 10:07, 19 September 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Rob Keeley
  ...lassic children’s stories, including those by [[:Category:Enid Blyton|Enid Blyton]] and [[:Category:Richmal Crompton|Richmal Crompton]] – whose William boo
  8 KB (1,365 words) - 14:04, 26 November 2012
• The Magic Begins (Charm Hall) by Tabitha Black
  ..., 99% of the other characters are female too). It also had a touch of Enid Blyton to it, as Charm Hall in some ways resembles a Mallory Towers for the 21st c
  3 KB (525 words) - 15:58, 16 April 2018
• The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
  ...s time period, although, to the reader, the dialogue can sound a bit 'Enid Blyton' at times!
  3 KB (544 words) - 12:24, 12 March 2018
• Otto's Trip to the Moon by Katherine Lodge
  We also enjoyed [[Where's Noddy?: Pull-the-tab Surprise Book by Enid Blyton]] rather more than we expected to. Older children will love the paper engi
  3 KB (562 words) - 09:49, 6 September 2020
• More of Me by Kathryn Evans
  ...to avoid confusion. I especially liked Eight with her obsession with Enid Blyton and the feisty and resentful Fifteen. However, for me, it's best-friend Mad
  3 KB (533 words) - 10:48, 17 March 2018
• Clangers: The Brilliant Surprise by Daniel Postgate
  ...riginal comeback kids [[Where's Noddy?: Pull-the-tab Surprise Book by Enid Blyton]]. We also enjoyed [[Friends in the Snow by Daniel Postgate and Sam Childs
  4 KB (610 words) - 11:07, 29 August 2020
• The Ultimate Peter Rabbit: A Visual Guide to the World of Beatrix Potter by Camilla Hallinan
  ...ime I could have been reading him, but books at home didn't go beyond Enid Blyton. Peter was drawing his old age pension by the time that I discovered him w
  3 KB (564 words) - 16:20, 25 March 2018
• Eye Spy by Tessa Buckley
  ...mily drama of secrets and lies. The mystery thread has a touch of the Enid Blyton about it, with a brother and sister pluckily investigating what they percei
  3 KB (586 words) - 12:46, 23 April 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ken Howard
  ...ou with twists and turns and dialogue that can surprise or amuse you. Enid Blyton wrote that for her it was like a movie projected on a screen where she was ...y are – in my case it was Captain WE Johns and the ''Biggles'' books, Enid Blyton, ''Lord of the Rings'', ''Gormenghast'', ''The Little Prince''. But it coul
  8 KB (1,455 words) - 07:52, 10 September 2010
• Helen Moss on Lashings of Ginger Ale
  But the undisputed Queen of Picnics is [[:Category:Enid Blyton|Enid Blyton]]. In my childhood memories of The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Adven
  8 KB (1,250 words) - 13:34, 21 September 2011

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