Magic Faraway Tree

[dinny]

Just been upstairs and dd is in bed reading this for the first time to herself - and is ENTHRALLED. Have read it to her and ds previously at bedtime, but her reading has suddenly shot forward and she is SO enjoying it. She just said, "Mummy, reading is the best thing EVER, isn't it?" Am sooooooo happy she has discovered the joy of it!

[LynetteScavo]

DS (5) loves us to read this to him. Personally I dislike all Enid Blyton I have encountered.

[dinny]

God, I LOVE them all - except Secret Seven

[CuckooClockWorkShy]

my dd loved this. We are reading the naughtiest girl in the school series right now. It's pretty good too.

[veedub]

aawww that used to be one of my favourites too! My dd is at this stage now and its great....and I still think reading is 'the best thing ever'!

[Lemontart]

We are in the middle of reading the second book - tonight we visited the Land of the Old Woman who lived in a Shoe! My DD2 absolutely loves them and is worth seeing past my own reservations about Blyton books. DD2 has always insisted on the same few picture books until we read the first book of the Faraway tree trilogy. Such a lovely change to move on to "big girls" books and have a chapter a night

[pootleflump]

Ooh, I loved those books... and the Wishing Chair ones as well.

[Mercy]

Dd and I have been reading this on and off over the last 3 months.

I can't get on with it tbh but dd seems to like it. It's better than Power Rangers comic though.

She's mad on Milly Molly Mandy atm.

[dinny]

yeah, Wishing Chair was fab

anyone remember the farm - was it Willow Farm? LOVED that, and also The Family At Red Roof? or something similar

[saramoon]

OMG I loved all those books, the faraway tree, the wishing chair, yes it was willow farm i think. I pick up second hand copies when i can for my girls when they are older (they are only 2and a half and nearly 4) and get all nostalgic about them. Ive picked up all the faraway tree ones - same hardback copies that i read - as well as Mr Pinkwhistle and the naughtiest girl. I was such a bookworm.
Milly Molly Mandy too, brilliant and the famous five, guess they might be outdated now.
My dd1 pretends she is reading the ones we have got and wants to be able to read them!!

[mistressmiggins]

I read faraway tree, wishing chair, willow farm & naughtiest school girl
Loved them.
Have read first 2 to DS (6)
He enjoyed them.
Have also read secret 7 to him too, plus Roald Dahl - read all his books to DS.

Its great as they get older so you can read more interesting books.

However I also am now an expert on space and science which I find boring

[Thefearlessfreak]

I was only talking to my dp about that book the other day...I can still sort of feel how it excited me when I was young and I still have images of the characters in it as I imagined they looked. We were discouraged from reading Enid B at school for some reason but I really think they were amazing for sparking your imagination.

[Hulababy]

DD loved The Magic Faraway Tree.

You jut have to be careful with the older versions of some of Enid Blton's books though as the terminology is very un-PC at times. The newer versions have been changed.

[KM1]

We're reading The Magic Faraway Tree to ds at the moment and he is absolutely loving it! We read Milly-Molly-Mandy several times to our dd who adored it and played imaginary games with her as Milly-Molly-Mandy for years. Tried to get my ds into it by playing up Billy Blunt's role in it but he wasn't having any of it!

[squilly]

My childhood was filled with Blyton books as I was a 60's child. The Faraway Tree books; the Magic Chair and then the Mallory Towers ones. Loved 'em all.

But I would add they made me a dedicated follower of fantasy. I loved Barbara Sleigh and the Carbonel books, Dianne Wynne Jones and things like Charlotte Sometimes, The Hobbit etc. Enid Blyton has much to answer for

My daughter, now 7, showed no interest in self reading til a few months ago when she suddenly started reading Rainbow Fairy books. Not quite my kind of thing, but if it's grabbed her imagination, I'll be queueing up to buy all 70-odd books in the series!!!

[islandofsodor]

DD had The MAgic Faraway Tree (All 3 books in one editiion) about a month ago and LOVES it. She is on about her 5th re-reading and I often find her with it under the bed covers reading by her go-glow!

[IorekByrnison]

Brilliant. I loved this book too. It's just so weird. Can't wait to read it to dd.

[moonmother]

Another fan here

We've already read The Wishing Chair - I am desperately hunting for the 2nd one

We are reading The Enchanted Wood at the moment.

One of the local charity shops seems to get alot of Enid Blyton's in and they are all reduced to 10p so I'm always nipping in to get more.

Managed to get the whole Narnia series (8 books) in ther for 80p.

[mamalovesmojitos]

aaaaah the faraway tree! was my fave when i was small. found it only a few weeks ago. happy memories.

[Lilyloo]

Loved it hazy memories of my dad sitting on our little wooden rocking chair reading it to us!
Will have to get it for ds now!

[ethanchristopher]

i have finally managed to force persuade lo to let me read them to her :D

[patriciawentworthheroine]

When can I start with these books, do you think?

DD1 is 4 - wwould love to start reading Faraway Tree etc to her. I think it would be beyond her at present - too psychedelic! Or am I under-estimating the power of a 4-year-old's understanding/imagination?

[wessexgirl]

My 4 y.o. dd loved it and demanded more!

Four should be fine, I think.