Greetings from Dorset in the South West of EnglandIndeed, can you imagine reading Mallory Towers while being in a boarding school? Thank you, Ms. King!
I am the librarian at an independent school near Sherborne. This school year (2008-9) we are celebrating 60 years of the school at it's current location, moving here just after the war in 1948. I thought you might like to know that in our school Enid Blyton is as popular now as she was in the 1940s. We have all of the St Clares and Mallory Towers books and a good number of Famous Fives and Secret Sevens and a couple of 'Naughtiest Girls' too. I have not enclosed a photo of our book shelf because I'm too embarrassed! The books have quite simply been read to destruction and will need to be replaced next year!. Perhaps it's because we are a boarding school that the books have held their appeal?
All good wishes
Anne King
Monday, March 8, 2010
Blyton at Dorset
Last year I got the following wonderful account from Ms. Anne King, the librarian of an independent school in Dorset County, United Kingdom. I can only imagine the Blyton shelf, but I wish I could see it!
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American ignorance of Enid Blyton's books is one of the reasons I wrote my book on the writer, titled, The Famous Five: A Personal Anecdotage (www.bbotw.com), whereby I discuss American influences on Enid Blyton and some of her writings and vice-versa.
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