Vintage hardcover children’s book - The Margic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. This edition was published in 1983.
Illustrated by Georgina Hargreaves.

This book has the most wonderful full colour illustrations, the pages are full of bright colourful images that will no doubt delight both children and adults.

The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951).

The stories take place in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous ’Faraway Tree’. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The wood and the tree are discovered by three children who move into a house nearby. They befriend many of the residents and have adventures in magical lands that visit the top of the tree.

This version of the book has Jo, Bessie, Fanny and Dick. In modern reprints, the names of some of the characters have been changed. Jo has been changed to Joe, the more common spelling for males, and Bessie is now Beth, the former name having fallen out of usage as a nickname for Elizabeth. Fanny and Dick have been renamed Frannie and Rick because in the United Kingdom and some other countries they are now more widely used as slang terms.
The supporting character Dame Slap has also become Dame Snap, and no longer practises corporal punishment but instead reprimands her students by shouting at them.

Author: Enid Blyton
Illustrations: Georgina Hargreaves
Publication: 1983. Published by Budget Books
Number of pages: 118

This book in is fair to good condition. There is a small amount of damage to the spine external spine and it is coming away for the book and first page. Otherwise there are no rips, tears or folds to the pages. No writing in or on the book. No stains or age discolouration. Please view the photos for the damage.

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