![]() ![]() It was still entertaining though, and because of the link with Moonface (Peter and Mary's dad is his cousin) it worked as a story with it's visits to imagination sparking lands at the top of the tree. It sparked a conversation off about how realistically more than just Joe, Frannie and Beth might have discovered The Enchanted all agreed that we kind of liked it JUST being Joe, Beth and Frannie as it made it seem more special. So far they have enjoyed both the human and fairy folk characters personalities in Blyton's books. Having read the Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree and The Folk of The Faraway Tree to two children (an 8 year old and a 10 year old on the autistic spectrum) I wasn't sure how this book would go down with the human characters being completely different. They don’t even come back down the tree to go down the Slippery Slip!! It’s a fine adventure in Blyton’s classic style but it’s rather tenuous in the Magic Faraway Tree experience. I wasn’t keen on the depictions of the children being smacked and slapped by the giant girl but it was written in 1932.overall, I think this is fine if your child really is super into the fantasy works of Enid Blyton to explore and extend their reading experience, but I wouldn’t recommend it generally to be honest. There’s a rather bonkers experience in the Land of the Stupids, they get kidnapped and turned into Living dolls and slapped a lot in the Land of the Giants in their adventures. Their mother gives them a powder and their father takes them Moonface where they prepare to travel through the Magic Daraway Tree to find Fenella. ![]() They find a wishing well and make wishes but a Sly-One snatches Fenella And wishes them ‘Away’ and Peter and Mary have to get her back. The protagonists are human children Peter and Mary whose mother mysteriously is half fairy and poorly and father who is Moonface’s cousin live next door to fairyland and play with the fairy princess Fenella. However, this Magic Faraway Tree Story is rather tenuously linked to the original stories and as such would’ve been better as a stand-alone fairyland story. ![]() I still adore the Enchanted Wood and Magic Faraway Tree stories that swept me away as a child. ![]()
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