What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?

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Rob Houghton wrote:That looks a beautiful place, Chrissie. :-D Another lovely place near to Plymouth is Rame Head. Its a very Blytonian type of place - a long narrow headland with a small chapel at the end, really just as big as a hut, where in the old days, so the stories go, a hermit preacher used to keep a light burning to warn boats of the dangerous coastline. :-D
That sounds lovely, Rob! 8) 8) 8)

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They filmed in Cornwall at Mullion Cove (where Daphne DuMaurier spent a childhood vacation) and at Kynance Cove where you can walk inside the caves at low tide. I've been to Kynance Cove at the Lizard peninsula many years ago and thought it was magnificent.
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Ive been to Kynance cove many years ago - beautiful place, as is most of Cornwall and Devon. We had holidays all over Cornwall when I was a teenager. :-D
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Another week another book :lol: . This time the Ninth Holiday Book in a very good wrapper for £14.75 and a nice copy of the Yellow Fairy Book for £18. No wrapper but I'm not really bothered as it seems a hard enough book to find without one as it is, it's clean and well bound that's good enough :D . It's a much thicker and bigger book than I was expecting it to be as well!
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Well done, Ice Maiden. Yes it is a thicker and bigger book. :D

The biggest and thickest book of all is The Play's The Thing. :)
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Well done, IceMaiden! The Yellow fairy Book is one of the few Enid Blyton books I don't have! :-D
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The Yellow Fairy Book does sound like a super book to have, especially as the original illustrations are by H. R. Millar. I've only got the 1993 Red Fox paperback, which of course has the altered text and is illustrated by Gunvor Edwards.
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Yes - H.R Millar is the main reason I would love a copy - one of my favourite illustrators.
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sixret wrote:Well done, Ice Maiden. Yes it is a thicker and bigger book. :D

The biggest and thickest book of all is The Play's The Thing. :)
I was going to ask what the biggest/thickest book was. I was thinking thickness wise it would be the News Chronicles Storybooks as they are pretty chunky and sizewise The EB Big Book, which only just about fits upright on any of my bookshelves at an angle. If I ever get a copy of The Play's The Thing it'll have to live on the floor!
Anita Bensoussane wrote:The Yellow Fairy Book does sound like a super book to have, especially as the original illustrations are by H. R. Millar. I've only got the 1993 Red Fox paperback, which of course has the altered text and is illustrated by Gunvor Edwards.
I think the YFB has got a deceptive title as it sounds like a collection of short stories much like the Methuen 'colours' storybooks rather than a full length story. Maybe that's why it was renamed, to make it sound more like a novel?

I've had a quick skim through it and it has several marvellous illustrations through it, one of which is of someone with really big eyes, the sort of thing that would have scared me silly as a child :lol: .
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I have the retitled version. The Queer Adventure. I don't think the contents are the same in both books?

Although inside the book it says copyright MCMLII (1952) the internals are done by Joyce A. Johnson?
Printed in Britain by Jarrold & Sons,Norwich.

Interesting:
Several chapters of this book were rewritten when the book was republished as The Queer Adventure and as the first edition from the 30s is a scarce book I am putting the changed chapters in here.
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I think I talked about this in my last Journal article too. ;-)

As far as I know, The Yellow Fairy Book was so named because it fitted in with the others of similar size and content - The Red Pixie Book, the Green Goblin Book (which later became Feefo Tuppeny and Jinks) etc :-D
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IceMaiden wrote:
I was going to ask what the biggest/thickest book was. I was thinking thickness wise it would be the News Chronicles Storybooks as they are pretty chunky and sizewise The EB Big Book, which only just about fits upright on any of my bookshelves at an angle. If I ever get a copy of The Play's The Thing it'll have to live on the floor!
I would agree about the News Chronicle books - they are definitely the thickest books - although 'The Play's The Thing' is about the same thickness. height-wise, The Play's The Thing is the definite winner - standing tall at almost 12 and a half inches. 8)
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IceMaiden wrote:
sixret wrote:Well done, Ice Maiden. Yes it is a thicker and bigger book. :D

The biggest and thickest book of all is The Play's The Thing. :)
I was going to ask what the biggest/thickest book was. I was thinking thickness wise it would be the News Chronicles Storybooks as they are pretty chunky and sizewise The EB Big Book, which only just about fits upright on any of my bookshelves at an angle. If I ever get a copy of The Play's The Thing it'll have to live on the floor!
Yes, you are right. I had forgotten about News Chronicles Storybooks. :D
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pete9012S wrote:Like Clun - Which I had never heard of until Julie mentioned Dick Turnip! :D
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Chrissie wrote:I believe that Nigel is familiar with Kynance Cove & the Lizard peninsula?
Indeed I am, Chrissie. The home of my ancestors and the Lizard Peninsula is my favourite part of Cornwall. The lovely four-digit road, the A3083 being the main artery towards Lizard Point. I have a photo of me down by the old lifeboat station at Lizard Point, looking very much like Bill Smugs.

Dragging this thread back on topic, I have just bought the Mail on Sunday The Famous Five Book of Adventure.
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Where did you buy book, Nigel? Is it available from the Mail on Sunday?
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pete9012S wrote:http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/auth ... book-1.jpg

I have the retitled version. The Queer Adventure. I don't think the contents are the same in both books?

Although inside the book it says copyright MCMLII (1952) the internals are done by Joyce A. Johnson?
Printed in Britain by Jarrold & Sons,Norwich.

Interesting:
Several chapters of this book were rewritten when the book was republished as The Queer Adventure and as the first edition from the 30s is a scarce book I am putting the changed chapters in here.
http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book ... ustrations" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If it's been rewritten does that mean it's essentially a different version of the same story like The Sneezing Dog/ A Shock For Mister Meanie, or altered into a totally different story altogether? In other words, if you've got the yellow fairy book do you still need the Queer Adventure as well, and the same with green goblin book/FT&J.
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