"The Magic Faraway Tree" is the second story in the Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton, the children's author. The book was published in 1943 and had many later editions. When I started to look for the book on the Internet and saw pictures of early editions illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler and I understood that I had to buy one of them. I was really lucky to find the edition from 1968 on Allegro. The book is in quite good condition except for the dust jacket that is torn at the edges.
The story begins when Dick (renamed Rick in later editions) comes to stay with his cousins Jo, Bessie and Fanny (renamed Joe, Beth and Frannie in later editions). The children share their secret about the Faraway Tree and its extraordinary occupants with Dick. Soon the whole party visits Moon-Face, Silky and Saucepan Man to find out which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. The first land they enter is the Topsy-Turvy land. It is a peculiar place where everybody walks on their hands and everything is upside down. After Jo makes a policeman angry, he is forced to stand on his hands due to a spell the policeman puts on him. His companions search for help in the Land of Spells. There they meet many witches and wizards who are selling their spells and ask a friendly old witch to put Jo the right way up again.
The children visit many other lands such as the Land of Dreams where everything that happens is dream-like and unreal. They get stuck in this land for some time because the Sandman scatters sand in their eyes to make them sleep. In the Land of Do-What-You-Please anybody can do what they want and the children have great fun. Jo gets to drive a train, and all of them get to paddle in the sea. In the Land of Toys, Saucepan Man gets imprisoned for stealing sweets because he mistook this land with the Land of Goodies. Happily Jo and the others rescue him from jail.
Enid Blyton created a magic world full of peculiar creatures with funny names such as Dame Washalot or Mister Watzisname and unusual places that the children visited. It is a world of children's imagination where anything can happen and where the usual things become the most unusual.
I enjoyed the book very much. I laughed a lot and couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. I wish I could be there with Jo, Bessie, Fanny and Dick to climb the Faraway Tree and have the extraordinary adventures with them.
The children visit many other lands such as the Land of Dreams where everything that happens is dream-like and unreal. They get stuck in this land for some time because the Sandman scatters sand in their eyes to make them sleep. In the Land of Do-What-You-Please anybody can do what they want and the children have great fun. Jo gets to drive a train, and all of them get to paddle in the sea. In the Land of Toys, Saucepan Man gets imprisoned for stealing sweets because he mistook this land with the Land of Goodies. Happily Jo and the others rescue him from jail.
Enid Blyton created a magic world full of peculiar creatures with funny names such as Dame Washalot or Mister Watzisname and unusual places that the children visited. It is a world of children's imagination where anything can happen and where the usual things become the most unusual.
I enjoyed the book very much. I laughed a lot and couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. I wish I could be there with Jo, Bessie, Fanny and Dick to climb the Faraway Tree and have the extraordinary adventures with them.
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