Personal Gems From The Cave Of Books

[Katharine]

A lovely story and illustration - I'm beginning to think I prefer Enid's shorter, younger tales than her series for older children. Although I still enjoy those too.

Thanks for sharing it.

[Tony Summerfield]

I'm afraid that it isn't a very good scan, but sadly I can't find my copy to do a better one!

[Rob Houghton]

Mine are only photographs, as I can't scan anything at present.

[Lucky Star]

Who is the illustrator for those stories Rob? The last one in particular looks very like an Eileen Soper picture of Anne Kirrin from one of the books though I can't remember which one at present.

[Daisy]

Anne running from the "volcano" in Camp I think. A rather younger Anne though.

[pete9012S]

Yes,Daisy and also this pic too!

[Katharine]

Is there a similar picture with Richard Kent running?

[Daisy]

Yes, in Five get into Trouble Richard running from Rooky to the children camping in the woods. The same terrified look on the face.

[Lucky Star]

Thanks Pete. That second one of Anne running from Wooden-Leg Sam is the one I was thinking of.

[Rob Houghton]

As you can tell - yes - Tiny Tales is illustrated by Eileen Soper - 31 of them!

[Lucky Star]

Thanks Rob. Yes you can see her style immediately. Lovely little stories.

[Anita Bensoussane]

The Children's Everything Within(1939)/Newnes Golden Treasury(1933)

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Just been looking at these two volumes in the cave and wondering what the story Elsie's Adventure is like...

They do look interesting, Pete, and gloriously chunky.

[pete9012S]

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Here's two books I hadn't come across before from the cave.Published quite late in Enid's career too,1962.
Not quite sure why only Monday & Tuesday were published?

The illustrator named is Dorothy Hall who if memory serves me correctly illustrated the cover of The Secret Of Moon Castle and many other books too including 1964's The Enid Blyton Storybook for Fives to Sevens,which includes stories from both of the above titles.



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[Rob Houghton]

I have the Story Book for Fives to Sevens (surely one of the worst titles of any EB book!) but for some reason the Monday and Tuesday books are very expensive and hard to come by. They sell on eBay but not cheaply!

Dorothy Hall is the artist Anita mentions in her excellent article in the latest Journal - and the top contender for all those uncredited illustrations in the Dean versions of Happy House, Adventurous Four and Galliano's Circus etc.

[Tony Summerfield]

Not quite sure why only Monday & Tuesday were published?

Wednesday and Thursday were both compiled by Enid and sent to the publishers, I have lists of the stories that were going in them. I guess the first two books didn't sell that well and the publishers decided to draw a line under the rest of the series. They are strange little books with soft cloth covers over card and for some reason it is much easier to find copies of Monday than Tuesday.