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Available
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Collection
Publication
Budget Books (1984), Hardcover, 117 pages
Description
When Joe, Beth and Frannie climb up to the top of the Faraway Tree, they meet Silky, Moon-Face and the Saucepan Man. Their new friends show them an exciting secret - how to visit lots of strange and magical lands, where they have many thrilling adventures.
User reviews
LibraryThing member LibraryLou
Another brilliant Enid Blyton book that I loved as a child. I really liked the idea of their being different worlds you could explore at the top of the tree.
LibraryThing member theboylatham
4/10.
In the Magic Faraway tree live Moon-Face, Saucepan Man and Silky the Fairy and they all go on adventures to the magical lands atop the tree with some local children.
In the Magic Faraway tree live Moon-Face, Saucepan Man and Silky the Fairy and they all go on adventures to the magical lands atop the tree with some local children.
LibraryThing member Ayanami_Faerudo
Oh, if only there are lands like the ones on top of the Tree.
LibraryThing member RobinRowlesAuthor
Dick thought it would be dull in the country with Jo, Bessie and Fanny. But that was before he found the magic Faraway Tree!
The four children have the most extraordinary adventures with the Saucepan Man,
Moon-Face and Silky the fairy. They only have to climb through the cloud at the top of the huge
What do I really like about this story? (Well, apart from the abundance of humour and fantasy throughout this book) - When a friend needs help, they all work together as a team and find a solution - it's absolutely charming!
What fun! - These characters are marvellous. Fabulous illustrations. This book is perfect for young children who like to use their imagination.
The four children have the most extraordinary adventures with the Saucepan Man,
Moon-Face and Silky the fairy. They only have to climb through the cloud at the top of the huge
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tree to be in the Land of Spells, or Land of Topsy-Turvy, or even the Land of Do-As-You-Please!What do I really like about this story? (Well, apart from the abundance of humour and fantasy throughout this book) - When a friend needs help, they all work together as a team and find a solution - it's absolutely charming!
What fun! - These characters are marvellous. Fabulous illustrations. This book is perfect for young children who like to use their imagination.
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LibraryThing member richardderus
Really, how could anyone not enjoy this trippy wartime (published in 1943) tale of escape to magical places with truly interesting residents? The Faraway Tree was introduced in [The Enchanted Wood], which I didn't know before picking this one up. I don't know if I'm missing some crucial stuff by
What happens in the course of the kids' adventures in the various faraway fairy realms was fun...I ***really*** want to visit the Land of Topsy-Turvy!...but not a patch on the fact that these childrens' mother/aunt, the Responsible Party of Record for their safety, blithely lets them go off for an entire day, no idea where they are, and when they come home and share their adventures, she doesn't reach for the phone to get a shrink STAT but indulgently laughs and allows them to do it again! (After they finish all their chores, of course. Which they do uncomplainingly. Which is how you know this is a novel.)
And then, then!, she allows one of them to SPEND THE NIGHT in parts unknown to her! Now times were different in 1943, but that one's just not on. No responsible adult has *ever* let a kid spend the night somewhere without knowing 1) where and 2) who and 3) when and how Sweetums will be going there and coming home.
So while this is a fun little fantasy of life in worlds where people are called Moon-Face and Dame Washalot and trees grow the fruits that will best suit your needs at that moment to a kid, to a grandpa it's an astoundingly different and really quite uneasy-making fantasy.
I decided to read this book because Henry Bird, of the 10th season of The Great British Bake Off, made a showstopper cake using this book as its theme. He is, or was depending on when you're reading this review, a literature student at university, and this book was one of his childhood favorites. So why not, it's only $3.99 on the Kindle, and getting out of my usual literary haunts is always a good idea.
I didn't love it, but I didn't expect to; in fact I liked it quite a bit more than I expected to and that is a wonderful thing for a reader in his seventh decade of reading.
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not having read that book first, but I never felt more than the ordinary sense of needing to know what was going on that comes with reading a new-to-me book.What happens in the course of the kids' adventures in the various faraway fairy realms was fun...I ***really*** want to visit the Land of Topsy-Turvy!...but not a patch on the fact that these childrens' mother/aunt, the Responsible Party of Record for their safety, blithely lets them go off for an entire day, no idea where they are, and when they come home and share their adventures, she doesn't reach for the phone to get a shrink STAT but indulgently laughs and allows them to do it again! (After they finish all their chores, of course. Which they do uncomplainingly. Which is how you know this is a novel.)
And then, then!, she allows one of them to SPEND THE NIGHT in parts unknown to her! Now times were different in 1943, but that one's just not on. No responsible adult has *ever* let a kid spend the night somewhere without knowing 1) where and 2) who and 3) when and how Sweetums will be going there and coming home.
So while this is a fun little fantasy of life in worlds where people are called Moon-Face and Dame Washalot and trees grow the fruits that will best suit your needs at that moment to a kid, to a grandpa it's an astoundingly different and really quite uneasy-making fantasy.
I decided to read this book because Henry Bird, of the 10th season of The Great British Bake Off, made a showstopper cake using this book as its theme. He is, or was depending on when you're reading this review, a literature student at university, and this book was one of his childhood favorites. So why not, it's only $3.99 on the Kindle, and getting out of my usual literary haunts is always a good idea.
I didn't love it, but I didn't expect to; in fact I liked it quite a bit more than I expected to and that is a wonderful thing for a reader in his seventh decade of reading.
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Language
Original publication date
1943
Physical description
117 p.; 10.8 inches
ISBN
0868012335 / 9780868012339
Local notes
Jo, Bessie and Fanny take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget to the magic Faraway Tree, where he meets Moon-Face, Silky the fairy and Saucepan Man, and visits all the different lands at the top of the Faraway Tree. Like the Land of Spells, the crazy Land of Topsy-Turvy, and the land of Do-As-You-Please, where the children ride a runaway train.
This over-sized edition has lots of colour illustrations - still a great read-aloud for the kids.
This over-sized edition has lots of colour illustrations - still a great read-aloud for the kids.
Other editions
Faraway Tree, Book 2: The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton (Hardcover)
The Magic Faraway Tree (Vintage Facsimile) by Enid Blyton (Hardcover)