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Welcome to the website of the Enid Blyton Society. Formed in early 1995, the aim of the Society is to provide a focal point for collectors and enthusiasts of Enid Blyton through its magazine The Enid Blyton Society Journal, issued three times a year, its annual Enid Blyton Day, an event which attracts in excess of a hundred members, and its website. Most of the website is available to all, but Society Members have exclusive access to secret parts as well! Join the Society today and start receiving your copy of the Journal three times a year. Don't forget also that we have an Online Shop where you'll find back issues of the Journal as well as rare Enid Blyton biographies, guides and more.

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Hi, I have found an Enid Blyton's Noddy Christmas Special comic book (48 pages) priced at 20 pence, can you tell me anything about it?

Barney says: I'm afraid we don't have any information on the comics, but if 20 pence was the original price it must have been published after 1971.

Hi, it was sad not to have an Enid Blyton Day this year. I guess speakers are hard to find but would it be a good idea to have one next year with members doing it themselves? Members could reminisce about Enid and her books etc, share their experiences of the Famous Five Club if they were members and bring items to display. The booksellers could still come, and the caterers. I'm sure members would have a lot to talk about. What do others think and could it work?

Barney says: Such a gathering might well appeal to members who know each other, Sue (e.g. through the forums) but probably wouldn't attract enough people to make it worthwhile for the book dealers and caterers.

Happy Birthday, EB'sGF! My Find-Outers collection is complete too. Barney, I would like to know if Enid Blyton saw anyone as her role-model in life. Thanks. Cheers, Ana.

Barney says: Enid Blyton appears to have looked up to her father, who encouraged her interest in nature, gardening, music and literature. She was also no doubt influenced by writer Arthur Mee, who published one of Enid's poems in his magazine when she was a teenager. Mabel Attenborough, aunt of Enid's schoolfriend Mary, was another influential figure, acting as a guide and confidante as Enid was growing up. However, Enid Blyton wouldn't have modelled herself slavishly on anyone, the way Zerelda Brass does with film star Lossie Laxton in Third Year at Malory Towers, as she thought it was important to be yourself, discover your own strengths and build on them.

Hello Barney, my daughter adores the folk of the Faraway Tree. Do you know if it's possible to find toys or ornaments of those characters? Thank you.

Barney says: I'm afraid I don't think any are available, Alison, though it would be lovely to have some. There is always plenty of Noddy merchandise but not much else.

Hello Barney. Today is my birthday. And guess what! My Find Outers collection is complete. Why did Enid and Hugh divorce?

Barney says: Happy Birthday, EB'sGF, and congratulations on completing your Find-Outers collection. Enid and Hugh had been having problems in their marriage for a few years before they divorced. No one but the two of them really knows all that happened, but we do know that Hugh became an alcoholic and Enid devoted more and more time to her writing, and they drifted apart. The Second World War didn't help matters, as it meant Hugh spent a lot of time away from home. Eventually, each of them fell in love with someone else.

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