The Naughtiest Girl: Naughtiest Girl In The School: Book 1

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Ming wrote:Why should Roald Dahl's books be left as they are, but Blyton's works tampered with? What's the difference between them? I think I read in another forum that someone felt that older children saying 'Mummy' seemed a bit babyish? On the whole I would agree, but I know of 2 families who have children in their late teens, and they still use the name 'Mummy'. Then there are those families such as the boys of Mollie Sugden, who always called their parents by their first names, from an early age. So who is to say what is the 'correct' word to use in text? Very high standard of Books these are from Enid we need to say a big well done soon she will be the best author she came to my school Surely Stephen isn't thinking Blyton was 'satirizing' the condition when she created characters such as Lame Luke and assorted movement-impaired baddies? I did not have the courage to phone up all the Blytons and find Enid's brother like I wanted to because I was scared of my parents being angry about the phone bill and me phoning up strange people (I was very young). Local telephone calls were quite expensive in the 1980's.

Moose wrote:I noticed that a reference to spanking had been removed from my modern edition of Last Term at Malory Towers. It's not yet illegal here in the UK but it's definitely not PC

You're not thinking of the 1961 The Big Enid Blyton Book, are you? (I'm not sure whether the abridged 1976 printing included that particular story): He had been bad-tempered and rude all day, and was out in the shed when his mother appeared and told him to go and do something. He refused so she gave him a little push, and he was VERY rude to her. Infortunately for Joe, Nemesis in the shape of his father, came into the shed, having heard what Joe had said. The Naughtiest Girl in the School comes to an end — in story only of course, but there are follow-ups which will undoubtedly be welcomed by the many fans of Blyton stories that deal with life at Whyteleafe School far away in the heart of England. interpreted as being a little more sexist than the original if it is taken as suggesting that dolls are in

The unique nature of Whyteleafe and the engaging character of Elizabeth sweep readers into a world that is at once cosy and unexpected. W. Lindsay Cable and Kenneth Lovell were the original illustrators of the books. Blyton also wrote a short story, and six new books were written by Anne Digby in 1999-2000. Naughtiest Girl Books, Stories and Games We've talked about this for long enough, Joe' said his father. 'Now we'll see what a good slapping will do'. As Joe's mother fled up the path, the shed door was shut, and even the cat fled in panic, for Father's hand 'was very hard', and Joe yelled.

He would have been a very old man by then. I tried to get more information out of her but she shushed me. I was probably just an over enthusiastic kid to her. I can testify from personal experience that most parents during the 1960s/70s were not afraid to use corporal punishment. All the schools that I attended would also use various different methods of chastisement, we all accepted it as being perfectly normal. Anita Bensoussane wrote:In 1955 Enid Blyton wrote a story called 'Let's Have a Club of Our Own!' which features a boy named Eric who can't walk very well because he has "a crippled leg" after having had polio. He is a member of a club called the Sturdy Six, and he is made Treasurer. I wonder whether Enid was thinking of her nephew Carey when she wrote about Eric? The main character is Elizabeth Allen, a very spoiled girl whose misbehaviour causes her governesses to leave. She is sent to Whyteleafe School – pronounced Whiteleaf [2] – and is determined to behave so badly that she will be expelled. But, in the middle of her first term, she discovers how lonely she was as an only child, and starts to behave. The second main character is her best friend Joan Townsend, who does her best to get Elizabeth to behave. Also, in the second book, The Naughtiest Girl Again, she makes two enemies (Robert Jones and Kathleen Peters) but then becomes great friends with them later on; while the third book The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor, is as much about fellow pupils Julian and Arabella as it is about her. Between 1940 and 1952, Enid Blyton wrote four novels about Naughtiest Girl, Elizabeth Allen. This edition contains the original text. Both cover and inside illustrations were created by Kate Hindley in 2014.

Between 1940 and 1952, Enid Blyton wrote four novels about Naughtiest Girl, Elizabeth Allen. Books 5-10 are authorised sequels of the series written by Anne Digby in 1999. Richard Watson - A talented musician who plays both piano and violin beautifully and plans to become a famous musician one day. He played duets with Elizabeth at the school concert Are teachers allowed to use corporal punishment at your school, Ming? Pupils were caned when I was at school (though I avoided it, partly through behaving myself and partly through not getting caught if I didn't! ). However, caning was used sparingly and was abolished in Britain in 1987. Between 1940 and 1952, Enid Blyton wrote four novels about Naughtiest Girl, Elizabeth Allen. Books 5-10 are authorised sequels of the series written by Anne Digby in 1999. Both cover and inside illustrations were created by Kate Hindley in 2014.

What a lot of trouble one avoids if one refuses to have anything to do with the common herd. To have no job, to devote ones life to literature, is the most wonderful thing in the world. - Cicero Enid Blyton's very funny school series follows Elizabeth Allen as she is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. Hilarious reading alone or aloud for ages 7 and up. It was Hanly who begged Enid repeatedly to visit their mother Theresa before her death in 1950, but Enid had long been estranged from her and she refused. Gillian and Imogen knew nothing of their grandmother until after her death. Anita, that Imogen contracted polio as a child is news to me. Oftentimes, people that contract polio are indentified by that infirmity with a limp or something of that nature. Does she exhibit that infirmity?