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Advantages: Lovely timeless stories with a little moral message too in some of them
Disadvantages: Magic chairs are hard to find

...years old, my mother read the Wishing chair to us ,one story each night before bed. Molly and Peter are shopping in an antique shop when they are frightened by a sudden commotion.They sit together in an old chair and wish that they were back home and the chair lifts them up and flies out through the door and home! They do try to send it back but it has decided to stay and so it becomes their own wishing chair! They discover that the chair must ...
...and sometimes that is in the middle of the night. It is the children's secret. One day they visit a Giants castle ,where they discover a poor little pixie who has been enslaved and they rescue him and take him to live with them in their playroom which is a big shed in the garden. After that ,he always watches for the chair to grow its wings so that he can fetch the children from the house and perches on the back when they fly to a new adventure. ... Read review

Advantages: very easy read for all ages
Disadvantages: none

Enid Blyton is one of the most successful children's writers ever. Her prolific output of 700 books has been translated into more than 40 languages and sold in excess of 400 million copies worldwide.First pulication of this book was May 1939. My mum was given this book as a youngster and then passed it onto myself when i was 10, I read it cover to cover and on finishing I started it all again. This is a gorgeous fairy tale for you to read alone ...
...willing to sit and read the whole book to them.because once you have started they wont let you finish and you wont want to stop either.But in my own opinion it has gotten better over the years that I have grown up as I now understand more of the terminology used. I feel that children under the age of about 10 will probably have more difficulty in understanding every word but none the less I dont feel it will go 'over thier heads'.As the characters ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent stories well written to captivate the reader.
Disadvantages: some people may perceive these stories as politically incorrect

...never stopped reading since. The Famous Five are 4 Children - Julian, Dick, Ann George and 1 dog Timmy. Julian is the Oldest aged 12 and very responsible. the others look up to him and ultimately he is in charge. His younger Brother Dick age 11 is more for Fun and Adventure, Their Young Sister is Ann age 10 who is very feminine and sensitive. Their cousin Georgina who only answers to the name of George aged 11 is a Tom boy and Lives in the small ...
...known as Timmy. At the start on the summer holidays all 4 children meet up and Timmy of course and Trouble always seemed to find them. In the first book Five on Treasure Island - George meets her cousins for the first time. When a shipwreck surfaces by Kirrin Island after a storm, the children go to investigate in George’s boat to Kirrin Island which incidentally belongs to George. The famous five find a treasure map, Search for hidden treasure, ... Read review

Advantages: Easy reading, enhances imagination
Disadvantages: none!

Join in the adventures of Dick, Bessie and Jo when they move to a new house with an enchanted wood at the bottom of their garden!! As they explore though the trees that whisper "wisha-wisha-wisha", they come across an incredibly tall tree in the middle of the wood which houses all sorts of unlikely fairy folk and has different fruits they higher you climb! Main characters include Moonface, Silky the fairy and the Saucepan Man who clatters wherever ...
...into a different land that stays for a few days or even a week. Will it be The Land of Spells? Or The Land of Parties? Or...*shudder*...The Land of Witches? And will they always get back to the ladder in time before the land moves on? A fantastic read! ... Read review

Advantages: Works the imagination. Excellent read.
Disadvantages: It has an End!

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 ...
...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 ... Read review