THE O'CLOCK TALES

Over 100 exciting stories to enjoy around the clock!

by ENID BLYTON

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New softcover book. Book measures 13 x 20 cms. 624 pages, published 2010. Age Guide: 7+ years.

Over 100 tales of magic and adventures from best-loved storyteller Enid Blyton - more than 100 magical and exciting short stories to enjoy around the clock!

• Join Sneaky the elf as he steals a growing spell and gets a terrible fright
• Find out just how mischievous Twinkle the elf is when he paints the walls of a dragon's cave
• Meet Sheila and her toys that magically walk themselves home
• Join Chitter the gnome as he discovers a Wishing-Balloon
• Follow Edward the very brave pink teddy bear as he rescues his owner from a dark wood
• Laugh at Twisty the Brownie as he learns the hard way why it's unwise to pull nasty faces
• and many more

The stories in The O'Clock Tales were originally published in the 1940s as Five O'Clock Tales, Six O'Clock Tales, Seven O'Clock Tales and Eight O'Clock Tales. Each story is 3 - 6 pages long, great to read aloud or for independent readers.

About the author

Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock. She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century. Once described as a "one-woman fiction machine", she is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups. Her books have enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world, and have sold over 400 million copies. By one measure, Blyton is the sixth most popular author worldwide: over 3400 translations of her books were available in 2007 according to UNESCO's Index Translationum; she is behind Lenin and almost equal to Shakespeare.

One of her most widely known characters is Noddy, intended for beginning readers. However, her main forte is the young readers' novels, where children ride out their own adventures with minimal adult help. In this genre, particularly popular series include the Famous Five (consisting of 21 novels, 1942 – 1963, based on four children and their dog), the Five Find-Outers and Dog, (15 novels, 1943-1961, where five children regularly outwit the local police) as well as the Secret Seven (15 novels, 1949 – 1963, a society of seven children who solve various mysteries). Her work involves children's adventure stories, and fantasy, sometimes involving magic. Her books were and still are enormously popular in Britain, Malta, India, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Singapore, and Australia; and as translations in the former Yugoslavia, Japan, and across most of the globe. Her work has been translated into nearly 90 languages.

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The O'Clock Tales by Enid Blyton