What Enid Blyton book have you recently bought?

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Well done, Tony. It's a pity you couldn't influence the book's cover.
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John Pickup wrote:Well done, Tony. It's a pity you couldn't influence the book's cover.
What are you moaning about - you must acknowledge it's much better than a Maxey full frontal!
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John Pickup wrote:Well done, Tony. It's a pity you couldn't influence the book's cover.
shhh! Tony drew it! ;-)
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I don't influence anything in any way and I am certainly not paid for anything I do for Hodder, I simply check things out if I am asked. I did actually suggest many of the stories for the last two Christmas books (that is why stories like 'Pantomime Wolf' got in), but I don't think I had much to do with the latest one unless some of my suggestions were left over.
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Well, they definitely have stories with pounds shillings and pence, as I said! :-D I presume these were stories you suggested.
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Are the stories in these books available in any of the original books (The Christmas Book would be my educated guess!) or are they only in the modern ones? I refuse point blank to buy a modern edition and support them by contributing to their sales, but I really would like to get the stories if possible.
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I feel exactly the same as you.
But, I've now bought all three Christmas Books. I'm really,really enjoying them. You won't regret it!
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They are mostly available (though I think some are uncollected until they were put into these compilations) but they are spread across a wide range of books - the Gay, Bright, Happy storybooks, the Flower books, the Bedside books, and other books too. Saying that though, there aren't that many in the collections that I remember reading before - maybe about a third of them in the two books I have.

The first book in the trio of Christmas Collections is mainly 'The Christmas Book' - but heavily abridged.
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Thank you Rob :) . I have all the Gay, Bright, Happy, Flower and Bedside books so it's possible I already have some of the stories already!
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Further to my receiving the Magazine Annual No 3 for Christmas I bought a lovely copy of the Magazine Annual No 2 off ebay which arrived today. I already had No 4 but a decent copy of No 1 is proving elusive.
I like these annuals as they contain short stories of the Famous Five and Secret Seven which I wouldn't otherwise have seen.
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Here is a 1st Magazine Annual book with a dw:

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The wrapper doesn't look too bad, it seems to be the hardest of them to find in a decent dw.
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Thanks, Ice Maiden. I'll wait and see if I can find one with a better wrapper.
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It's my birthday in a week's time, so my dad asked me what I wanted. What do you but the person who has everything? (lol!) Answer - an Enid Blyton book!! ;-)

So I went on eBay and immediately found The Seventh Bedside Book - first edition, complete with a very good dust wrapper for £15 'buy it now' price. These books are so hard to find - I only have about six of them and only one with a dust wrapper - don't have number 7 in any shape or form - so I couldn't resist! :D
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
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Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'

(E. Blyton, Sunday Times, 1951)



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