Customer Reviews
Enchanted as Enchanted can be! - By: Mehajabeen Farid, 13 Jan 2008 
See what happens when three children, Jo, & his two sisters, Bessie & Fannie, discover their very own Enchanted Wood, & meet new friends Silky the Fairy, Moon-Face & the Saucepan Man who all livein the magical Faraway Tree. Their real adventures begin when they all climb up & discover the most thrilling & peculiar! Lands that exist beyond the clouds at the top of the tree which some are good & some rather confusing & some plain dreadful. I like most of the Lands & characters like the angry pixie, Mr Watizname & Dame Washalot.
The characters are funny & some of the lands are very exciting like the land of snow & ice where there are evil snowman & even Santa Claus.
My favourite book!!! - By: Sylvia, 22 Jul 2007 Just the title breathed excitement through me as a child. An English Teacher read it to usin junior school. I never thought about buying a copy until I had children.
Now I read it to my 3 year old girl & 7 year old boy each night & they both can't wait for the next chapter.
Apart from the excellent stories the chapters are just long enough to keep the children awake & just short enough for parents not to lose their voices!
You can also pick out any chapter at random & it will start with the children climbing the tree & end with them tucked up safelyin bed.
They are great for reading to children of mixed ages.
This book is so inspiring & reminds me that playing outside with children, making up your own adventures is the best fun ever!!!!
The Wishing Chair books are also made the same way. Although my son hasn't tired of them yet I have just bought him a book from Blyton's Secret series for him to read to himself - although I will still be reading this book to them out loud - I love making up different voices for each of the characters!
Just the best book series ever - By: L. Houghton, 17 Nov 2006 Harry Potter is fabulous, but before JK Rowling there was Enid Blyton. I am 34 & still have copies of the Enchanted wood & Up the Faraway tree with me...my mother was having a spring clean a couple of years ago & I saved these books from being dumped because they have been intergral to my love of reading. Please do your children a favour & turn off the Playstation & Nintendo & spend time reading them Enid Blyton classics. It will be well worth your time. I thank her for her books as I think her writing has kept me a child at heart.
Excellent!! Magical,exciting and enchanting - By: Summer, 18 Mar 2004 This is an excellent book i would recomend it 2 everyone even my mum enjoyed it.It is about joe,beth & frannie who move into a new homein the country right next 2 an enchanted wood.They find the faraway tree which is a massive tree which is higher than the clouds.They make some special new friends who live up the tree & when they climb to the top they find themselvesin different magical lands.They get into misceif,have fun & have adventures.It is really exciting & magical.You feel as if you arein the book tasting the delicious sounding cakes they eat with there new friends & you have as much fun & enjoyment readind it as they doin the magical lands.They visit the land of take what you want,roundabout land,The land of ice & snow,The land of birthdays,the land of toys,rocking land & many more exciting,magical,enchanting lands.
I would be here all day explaining how good it is so i will give you 1 word 2 sum this book up-
EXCELLENT!!!!
buy it now u will love it & have loads of fun reading it.
As Enchanting as ever!! - By: Julie Morrice, 12 Feb 2004 Although my 5 year old(now 6) daughter had an abundance of books, I felt an urge to read her my old taped up copy (at least 30yrs old) of The Enchanted Wood by Enid Blyton.
Primarily nostalgia, because I remembered it so vividly,secondly,I knew it would capture her imagination.
I received this book as a reward for attending'Sunday School'and,as a young girl,read it several times.
My daughter was fascinated by the stories of the three children & their adventures into the unknown-and I found myself yearning to read more.
This prompted me to search for more stories(which I knew existed),and I found the trilogy-even my 2 year old daughter knows of 'Moonface & Silky'now,through'The Faraway Tree'& The Folk of The Faraway Tree'
If you never read another book to your child, please don't deprive them of this fantastic journey-sorry J.K, I've yet to read yours, but for me the Queen of the Imagination will always be Enid Blyton
