Once upon a Magical Faraway Tree

I remember my primary school years when Enid Blyton’s books were the rage of the time. Infact she was the J.K.Rowling of that generation but with books that continued to captivate young children long after she passed on. And somewhere between the pre-school ‘Peter and Jane’ books and the pre-pubescent Hardy Boys mystery series, there was a time when Enid’s books filled almost all reading hours.

Among the many books about pixies, talking rabbits and meddlesome blokes, there was one that stood out. It had a magical tree and interesting folks that lived among the branches. And best of all, there were loads of wonderful adventures in the lands that appeared above the tree.

Sigh, it’s hard recovering from the walk down memory lane.

P.S : Here’s an interesting site about the Magical Faraway tree
P.P.S : The wishing-chair came in a close second


Updates (from Wikipedia):

In modern reprints, the names of the children have been changed - from Jo, Bessie and Fanny to Joe, Beth and Frannie - in the first case to make it clear that Jo is a boy, in the second because Bessie is seldom used as a nickname for Elizabeth anymore (most would go by Beth, Liz or Lizzie), and in the third because Fanny is a slang term in the United Kingdom (see Wiktionary entry). Cousin Dick, who appears in "The Magic Faraway Tree", has his name changed to "Rick" in new editions, presumably for similar reasons.