The Enchanted Wood: 1 (The Magic Faraway Tree)

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Then they were out in the little garden, running through the grass that had grown so long, and smelling the roses that grew all around. She is very much out of favor these days, but Enid Blyton's old-fashioned adventure books are still popular in many countries like India and Australia. There was a small gate at the bottom of their back garden that led into the overgrown lane running by the wood. After World War II, the doll became popular and was a substitute for the soft teddy bear for a short period of time, but then later was considered racist.Best of all is the discovery that strange new lands can be found in the clouds at the very top of the Faraway Tree itself - from the Land of Spells to the Land of Treats to the Land of Do-As-You-Please. And each child secretly thought the same thought—"I shall go and explore the Enchanted Wood as soon as ever I can!

This delightful story from classic children's author Enid Blyton was first published in 1939 and has delighted children ever since. As a general review, this book is about three very close-knit siblings that work hard to complete their chores around the house and are subsequently rewarded with free time and adventures with magical folk.For many, they are the most magical of the stories that Enid Blyton wrote, and their first introduction to the author. It's a comfort novel for me, because it always fills me with happiness and reminds me of the times as a little girl when I would turn on my bedside lamp late at night and read my storybooks while my 2 dogs Ike and Nicky slept right beside me. The first thing to note about the Faraway Tree is that it's not far away at all, it's actually very close to where our heroes live. Again, I haven't let this change affect my rating, but I am extremely disappointed all the same at how political correctness and everything else is even creeping into classic children's stories.

As for the three children – I never developed different voices for them with my read aloud as I did with the characters of Winnie-the-Pooh because quite frankly they all spoke exactly the same way and had near identical characters. There have been many times when I've visited the local library and eventually ended up in the children's section of the library. The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951).In addition to modernizing the names of the characters, they changed the fearsome Dame Slap, who indulges in corporal punishment of her students, to Dame Snap, who instead makes the poor dears cry by yelling at them. Some' feel the youngest sister was fat shamed for helping herself to too many toffees "because she was a very greedy girl". Enid Blyton turns out (according to Wikipedia) to be a rather strange woman and not somebody who one would expect to the a very successful author of children's books.