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Happy Stories Treasure Trove Readers Book I News Chronicle Boys’ & Girls’ Story Book No 2Ĭhildren of Other Days, Old Thatch series Tales of Robin Hood, John O’London’s Children’s Library Tales of Ancient Greece, John O’London’s Children’s Library Tales From the Arabian Nights, John O’London’s Children’s Library The Knights of the Round Table, John O’London’s Children’s Library Silver and Gold, illustrator Ethel Everett The Play’s the Thing, illustrator Alfred Bestall, music Alex Rowley, as Plays for Older Children and Plays for Younger Children, 1940 Ten Songs from ‘Child Whispers’, music by Sydney Twinn She was one of the most successful children’s storytellers of the 20th century. Clare's.Īccording to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.This is a list of 762 books by Enid Blyton (1897–1968), an English children’s writer who also wrote under the pseudonym of Mary Pollock.

Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.īlyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years.

This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. Enid Mary Blyton (1897 - 1968) was an English author of children's books.īorn in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading.