In 2008, the prestigious Costa Book Awards voted Enid Blyton the world's best-loved author, ahead of J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare. In her long career, Blyton...
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The creator of some of Britain's most popular children's characters, Enid Blyton, has teamed up with the former head of Warner Brothers Consumer Products in Asia to develop a position for the...
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If you are a budding Enid Blyton or an aspiring Amy Tan, grab your pen and start writing - it's that time of year again.
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TOYLAND is agog as Mr Plod faces his most taxing case - someone has stolen Noddy. Original drawings made for Enid Blyton by the Dutch artist Van Beek, many dating to the 1950s, were taken from BBC...
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TOMORROW IS A STRANGER, by Geoffrey Trease (Piper, $39). Ages eight to 13: Quality fiction can be a useful introduction to history for children daunted by information books.
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