Do children still enjoy reading Enid Blyton nowadays?

Question

I was a keen reader of Enid Blyton books as a child - The Magic Faraway Tree, Famous Five and Noddy. Do these books still enthrall children of today like they use to? Or is it Harry Potter or nothing? (I'm not knocking JK Rowling by the way)!

Answer 1

I work in a Children's Library and although not as popular as they were when I was young, Enid Blyton books still go out an a very regular basis. In fact they are still so popular that you can always buy new editions of the most popular titles like Famous Five.

Answer 2

I have a 9 year old and she loved the Magic Faraway Tree and I have read her quite a few of the Famous 5 books. I think Enid Blyton books will be enjoyed for many years yet.And I'm not knocking JK Rowling either.

Answer 3

No I don't really think so. They are not as adventurous as today's heroes.

I got my daughter Beatrix Potter when she was younger and the books are still in the sleeves and have never even been read.

She only read the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe from the Chornicles of Narnia by CS Lewis because it was coming out on film, otherwise these books would have been the same as the Beatrix Potter books.

Children now have a much wider choice of books to read from than we ever did when we were our children's age. Garth Nix, JK Rowling and even JRR Tolkien (due to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy) seem to be the most popular authors at the moment.

My teen prefers Joanna Campbell and Lauren Brooke, or anything to do with animals, but she also has an extensive book collection which has been collected over the years.

Answer 4

enid blyton is ok, but it doesnt seem to have the same kind of magic new authors have. However, i Loved the magic faraway tree when younger, but television has taken over and kids now need much more stimulus so fantasy and action needs to be in books to grip the child rather than being beaten by the television. enid blyton just doesnt cut it any more

Answer 5

My children read Enid Blyton. I think that they seem a little tame after Harry Potter, and various other titles that are around at the moment, but they still have good entertainment value that inspire the imagination.

Answer 6

I used to read Blyton but when I had my own children I suddenly realised how shockingly sexist she was as a writer. In particular I remember my Dad reading a story to my little girl about a mean soldier who "wanted" a pretty shepherdess or ballerina who lived on the mantlepiece and he went all out to get her despite her not wanting him, and he did and I thought what kind of ugly message is this sending out to my daughter about male dominance - no Enid Blyton! Goodbye! My Dad thinks I'm half crazed but I don't.

Answer 7

i used to read enid blyton when i was a kid, not too long ago, im in my twenties, but even then, i thought they were a little too "goody-two-shoes" if you get my drift, the good characters were always too good, and didnt have any real faults and in collections of short stories like "the magic umbrella" (think that was one of them), it seemed too moralistic. exception might have been some of secret seven books, as far as i remember they used to be fairly unkind to the little sister of one of them. i know that was probably a product of the era she was writing in, kids books had to show proper moral example and all that, but kids nowadays, i think, read so little that when they do, they want characters they can relate to, the likes of Harry Potter, Artemis Fowl and the kids from Series of Unfortunate Events, kids who like them, aren't perfect, sometimes break the rules, but whom they can like anyways because they have good points without being too perfect..

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Answer 9

I read the twins at St Clair's and the Malory towers books when I was about 11 and I loved reading them!! She's a great writer!!

Answer 10

I used to love the famous 5 books, I would always read them at my grandparents house, and pretend I was out on one the adventures......imagination was everything before the PS2¬!