The many books of Enid Blyton

As a kid, I read lots of Enid Blyton books. Her signature is on book covers in the same logo way as Walt Disney. Well, at least in England. I haven't seen her books here. When he used to travel back and forth more frequently, my father would pick up lots of books from the Famous Five and Secret Seven series. He was a big fan of Noddy, but I had outgrown Noddy before my dad got around to showing us those books. (note: I really wasn't aware of super animated tv star Noddy. oh well.)

I don't think that the EB books were good, in any particular way. I just read an awful lot of them. At some point, the series were picked up by newer authors, and they weren't nearly as good. Anyway, looking for some internet information on this subject is somewhat interesting.

Look at her massive list of books. Here is EB on Wikipedia.

A site about the Secret Seven. Here is the Secret Seven on Wikipedia.

Here is a primitively designed site that sorts out the characters from various EB books.

Here is the Famous Five on Wikipedia. Those inferior famous five books were apprently translated from French. Also there have been a bunch of adaptations of the FF to TV. I haven't seen any of those.

here is a site devoted to The Mystery of Enid Blyton's Popularity

Here is an Amazon list of Famous Five books. I've never seen these books in an American bookstore, and the shipping time/availability is really long for Amazon ( 4 to 7 weeks on average) so I am not sure if they are really that available. But they were still very widely available in England a few years ago.