Belle de Jour's overcomplicated life Nov 18, 2009
" This is a little startling, is it not? An only daughter who for unspecified reasons isn't talking to her father adopts a profession rather pointedly connected to his work. And you see the photograph that Dr Magnanti has posed for the interview seated on the edge of a bed in a silk negligee routine work-wear for a courtesan I suppose, but not a conventional get-up for the medical scientist she is now presenting herself as. She doesn't make any bones about the fact that she's prepared to trade... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
TIMES VIEW: Highbrow bias against Blyton Nov 17, 2009
Generations of children have grown up reading and loving a range of books written by Enid Blyton ... The popularity of Enid Blyton, and other writers like P G Wodehouse, is a testimony to the fact that there are millions of people out there who think that their books are worth reading ... It's a delicious irony that the very same BBC is now set to air a series on the life and times of Enid Blyton. (India Times, India)
Feminist icon? Nov 16, 2009
Bonham Carter says Enid Blyton was not a big part of her own childhood. Children's author Enid Blyton has been enjoying something of a renaissance of late. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
How BBC banned 'second-rater' Blyton Nov 16, 2009
How BBC banned 'second-rater' Enid Blyton - UK - World - The Times of India ... How BBC banned 'second-rater' Enid Blyton ... Enid Blyton, the children's author, was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because the corporation considered her a "second-rater" whose work "lacked literary value". (India Times, India)
Enid Blyton considered too "small beer" for BBC Nov 15, 2009
Enid Blyton's work contained too many pixies, BBC memos revealed. Children's author Enid Blyton was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because her work was considered "small beer", archive documents have revealed ... Head of the BBC schools department Jean Sutcliffe said in an internal memo dated 1938: "My impression of her stories is that they might do for Children's Hour but certainly not for Schools Dept, they haven't much literary value. I and my stories are completely banned by the BBC... (BBC News -- UK)
Make sure the ginger beer is from Asia Nov 13, 2009
I think all of these names come from reading too many Enid Blyton books about the Famous Five and the Secret Seven ... Or as Enid Blyton would say: "It would have been better to have a midnight feast, with lashings of ginger beer.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Golliwogs fail to make Toyland return with Noddy Oct 18, 2009
Illustration of a golliwog from the original version of The Wishing Chair by Enid Blyton ... Author Sophie Smallwood, the granddaughter of Noddy's creator Enid Blyton, decided against featuring any golliwog characters for fear the book would be too contentious ... Enid Blyton Society spokesman Tony Summerfield said the removal of the golliwogs was unnecessary. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
What does your bookcase say about you? Sep 26, 2009
My book cases contain a strange mixture including Enid Blyton (The Famous Five), Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, war poetry by Wilfred Owen -all reflecting different periods in my life. Reading a book, is for me the ultimate escapism-I love to immerse myself in another world. (BBC News -- UK)
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Dan Browns worst sentences (or at least twenty of them) Sep 19, 2009
I read all the time; anything from Enid Blyton, Arthur Ransome and J K Rowling to the furthest reaches of books written for older people. I like Dan Brown's books. (Harper's Magazine)
Blistering Barnacles Tintin In Trouble Sep 5, 2009
Children's authors such as Enid Blyton, whose books have sold by the millions, have also faced the wrath of PC zealots ... We needn't let them spoil the pleasure of reading a Tintin adventure or an Enid Blyton book. (India Times, India)
Interview with Award Winning Writer... Sep 5, 2009
I particularly liked Enid Blyton; especially the Famous Five, the Mystery series and the Faraway Tree books. I also loved Roald Dahl, comic books and; oh, I don t know; far too many to list. (Suite101.com)
Famous women in BBC season Aug 21, 2009
Jane Horrocks will play singer Gracie Fields, while Helena Bonham Carter portrays children's author Enid Blyton. The series, which also sees Anne-Marie Duff as ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, explores what spurred on these women at the height of their artistic powers. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Bard of the bottom Jul 19, 2009
" Griffiths studied literature at Monash University before teaching English for four years at Mildura High School. The main influences for his books, he says, come from childhood reading: Enid Blyton, Dr Seuss and Lewis Carroll, with some Monty Python thrown in. The irreverent Bad Book of rhymes and limericks draws on the 19th century cautionary verse books of Edward Lear and Hilaire Belloc, which Griffiths read about in the Cole's Funny Picture Book. (E. W. Coles was a 19th century Melbourne... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Treasure off the shelves Jun 28, 2009
S. Jess, 39, a homemaker, says she goes to a shop that has all the Enid Blyton series and she buys them for her daughter. The books are tied in rafia strings so youll see most of them stacked according to the series, she says. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Ian M. Banks May 3, 2009
They re not all literary, but: Brian Aldiss, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett (Watt and Murphy in particular), Saul Bellow, Alfred Bester (especially Tiger, Tiger), Enid Blyton, Jorge Luis Borges, John Brunner (especially Stand On Zanzibar), Noam Chomsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers and The Favourite Game), Ivor Cutler (Life in a Scotch Sitting Room), Samuel Delaney, T. S. Eliot (especially The Waste Land), Gunter Grass (the early works, especially The Tin Drum), Robert Graves,... (Suite101.com)
Children's classics top list of best books of all time Apr 28, 2009
Chosen by Quentin Blake Five Go to Smuggler's Top by Enid Blyton. Chosen by Michael Morpurgo The Railway Children by E Nesbit. (BBC News -- UK)
Disney sets out to make 'The Passion for kids' Mar 7, 2009
Helena Bonham Carter is to play Enid Blyton in a new BBC drama that will tell the life story of one of Britain's best loved children's authors. Teenage criminals who commit repeated crimes because of a drug habit could get only a single caution to cover all their offences under new Government rules. (Yahoo News -- 'The Passion of the Christ')
At 70, a novelist is born Feb 14, 2009
Enid Blyton for adults, one of the Debut Dagger judges termed it. Bradley's own literary references Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Kite Runner are a tad more ambitious. (Globe and Mail)
Free speech and racial slurs butt heads in Britain Feb 8, 2009
The popular children's author Enid Blyton used them as characters in her books, and many whites thought nothing of using ethnic slurs against other groups, a holdover from the days of the British Empire, when the ruling classes generally said what they liked. But golliwog dolls are still sold in some stores in Britain, including, until last week, the gift shop at Sandringham, one of Queen Elizabeth's estates. (International Herald Tribune)
Profile: The Golliwog: Rag doll causing a stir in the playroom Feb 7, 2009
Enid Blyton, the children s writer, featured villainous golliwogs in her Noddy stories, as well as writing three books primarily about golliwogs. These days her style would set teeth on edge. (Times Online)
