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So i’m revisiting this fantastic book from my child hood……to see how i under stand it as an adult.If this book did any thing, it fired my imagination. You got Jo Bessie and Fanny….at the moment, they’ve been to the land of round a bouts and didn’t they get dizzy!….then apart from meeting various people in the tree….Jo gets stupid and goes to the land of snow and ice and gets kidnapped by a snowman until Moonface calls on the 3 bears with a spell (after scoffing loads of toffee) and they fulfill the 3 bears story and the white and brown bears make up, the snowman melts and every one is magically transported back to where they were.
Moral so far………Moonface has the power to save so make sure you give him what you promise (namely toffee) LOL Don’t get me wrong… i love this set of books.
Does Moon Face get it on with Sylvia? LOL Does the angry pixie go to anger management classes and does Mr Watzizname remember who he is and does Mr Watzizname forget his name because Moonface ran off with Sylvia and is the angry pixie angry because hes realized he’s gay? And is Dame Slap branching out? Tune in next week to the tree mendous conclusion…..LOL Perhaps we ought to better leaf it out……LOL
My favourite childhood books. I do have to correct you though. Silky was Moonfaces bitch. not Sylvia.
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True Lia…..Silky probably washed her hair with Timotei shampoo. Moonface knows every thing about the tree. He lives right at the top, pay him with toffee (even if you promise it later) and he’ll let you go all the way down the tree on his slippery slip. Better than getting soaked with Washalots washing. LOl
So Jo has been rescued from the evil Snowman who went into meltdown ……and now it’s time for the land of the Saucepan Man……..and what do you know? Saucepan knows Watzizname and distracts him while Moonface escapes. Mean while, Silky’s washing her hair…….but we all have a jolly good laugh about it after.
Fell asleep around the time of the land where one can buy cushions to break the fall. Have to re read later……
And that was that said me…..LOL
I loved my noddy books when I was a child.
I remember being ill while visiting my auntie in Stockport when I was about four, and confined to bed with some Noddy book where Noddy had been left naked in the woods. I kept turning the book in different directions to find out whether he was a boy or a girl. I was hoping he was a girl because I was sure that they looked different form boys, and I was interested to see whether they really did.
Enid Blyton didn’t enlighten me, I’m sorry to say.
Does anyone know??
The other book I remember was one about gypsies.
I just thought that the colours of the gypsy wagons were so much more fun than the monocolour of our house exterior. And to live in a house pulled by horses! Such fun!!!
Of course I didn’t really read these books. I just moved from picture to picture.
So Saucepan got the wrong land and ends up in the land of Rocking…..No Gun’s n Roses here..i mean the land rocks…it keeps moving and you get knocked about a lot but don’t worry….a shop is here selling cushions to make the knocks easier which no one can afford. Why can’t Moonface cast a spell and get them all out of there? Perhaps his thoughts of Silky are clouding his mind too much or the fact that he lives permanently in a tree and has received a letter that he has to pay for a T.V licence. LOL
What job does Moonface do to pay his bills? He lives at the top of the tree so he must be pretty well off. He owns the inside of the tree as well as nothing interferes with the slippery slip ride on the way down. he must be retired as all he asks for payment for any thing is toffee…..LOL
Why does Saucepan man get a whole land to him self?
Can’t wait to revisit the land of Dame Slap…but enough about her make up…..LOL fantastic book…..512 pages……
I grew up reading Enid Blyton, wonderful writer with such imagination.
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Yep crumpet…also wrote…Island of Adventure.The Famous Five……The Find Outers…..Mr Galliano’s Circus(books) and many more…wrote an estimated 800 books over a career that spanned 40 years.
The Galliano’s Circus books were awesome and starred an Elephant called Jumbo…..
Enid died in 1968…after writing 762 books apparently. I must have had a few hundred on my book shelves when i was young as they’re all i read for some years.
I grew up reading Enid Blyton, wonderful writer with such imagination.
The interesting thing about the book where Noddy was left naked in the woods is that it didn’t frighten me at all. It’s one of the scariest things to happen to a child – some of Grimm’s stories gave me nightmares – but this was something which happened to noddy, who was weird anyway, and I knew he would be all right because someone (Enid Blyton) was looking after him.
My parents didn’t freak either, as they bought me the book. It was a very different age, though. people were aware of pedo predators and they (generally) made sure the kids were safe without scaring us (I remember being despatched to the gents somewhere to make sure my younger brother was safe – I was quite annoyed as I didn’t see the reason). Nowadays, parents wouldn’t buy a book like this.
But Grimm’s fairytales..now they were sca-a-a-a-ary
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