Once you start it, you won't be able to switch it off!
Advantages:
Works the imagination . Excellent read .
Disadvantages:
It has an End !
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
This is the third book in the faraway tree series and is written in much the same way as The Enchanted Wood and The Magic Faraway Tree. All the same characters are in this book except Cousin Dick has been replaced by Curious Connie who is a spoiled little girl of the childrens mother. If you haven`t come accross The Enchanted Wood or The Magic Faraway Tree I advise you read these two first as they are a series of books. THE STORYLINE
Three children have moved from the town with their mother and father. Father had got a new job in the country. They live in a little cottage just down a lane from The Enchanted Wood. In the first two books the children discovered The Enchanted Wood which was inhabitted by fairy folk and in the middle of the Wood was The Faraway Tree. The children had made friends with the inhabitants of the tree. There were pixies and fairies a man who wore saucepans, a lady who never stops washing and a curious gent with a big round head who live at the top of the tree and had a slide that run from the top of the tree to the bottom called the slippery slip. See characters below for further details. Also at the top of the tree there was a ladder that led through a purple hole in the clouds into a magic land. This land moved on every so often and a new one replaced it. However if you was in the land when it moved from the faraway tree you would be taken along with it and trapped, which happened to the children more than once but of course they always found a way out!
CHARACTERS
JO. The big brother who always looked after his two little sisters and Connie. Always helpes out in the garden. BESSIE & FANNY. The younger sisters who always did as Jo said and helped mother about the house. CONNIE. The newest character who was a spoiled child and didn`t believe in the wood or the tree until mid way through the book MOONFACE. Owner of the top house and the slippery slip which he lets people slide down to save them climbing back down, in exchange for some toffee. A mischievous character. SILKY. A beautiful fairy named because of her silky golden hair. The maker of pop biscuits which went pop in your mouth when eaten!! DAME WASHALOT. We don`t see much of her but she is always washing and pouring her dirty water down the tree, soaking people who are on their way up unless they crouch beneath a branch! MR WATZISNAME. Forgot his name and is nearly always asleep snoring loudly. SAUCEPAN MAN. Lives with Watzisname as he left his land in the first book and it had moved on before he could get back. A strange man who was covered in kettles and saucepans and was always mishearing things. Very funny. ANGRY PIXIE. Doesn`t like people peeping in his window as he lives in the bottom house and usually throws whatever he has in his hands at people who ppep. Friendly with the main characters though. THE RED SQUIRREL. Like all animals in the wood he can talk. He is employed by Moonface to collect the cushions at the bottom of the Slippery Slip.
A great book as where the previous two in the series and well worth a read. Very mischievous and curious characters to whom the writer; Enid Blyton, helps you get to know them all. Overall a fantastic read.From pop biscuits to toffee shocks and google buns for food to a squirrel with a hole in his jumper who acts as a messenger to moonface and collects the cushions from the users of the slippery slip. Words cant describe how good this book is. Read it to the kids and find yourself hooked too. To be read over and over again with a great storyline and imagination beyond a childs. Magical and intreging characters who are mischievous and curious this is Enid Blytons best series of books for me.
