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The Faraway Tree

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  • 28-12-2005 10:38pm
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    ClareBear
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    Looking to get a copy of Enid Blyton's The Faraway Tree. It was my favourite book as a child and I want to get hold of it. Does anyone know where they still sell her books? Thanks.


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    lordgoat
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    You're lucky i'm home, i'll have a rummidge in my attic and see what i turn up... found a Mr. T annual from 1984 the last day... sweet, pretty sure i had this for ya if i find it i'll pass it on during the week...


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    Piste
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    I loved that book so much...

    You should be able to get it in any good bookshop...most places sell Enid Blyton stuff, right?


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    Shinners21
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    ClareBear wrote:
    Looking to get a copy of Enid Blyton's The Faraway Tree. It was my favourite book as a child and I want to get hold of it. Does anyone know where they still sell her books? Thanks.

    I have the orignal paperback from years and years ago...my fave childhood book. I wil never part with it, but I saw the whole collection of Faraway Tree book's in Tesco's of all places last week. They are hardback and don't really look the same but the story hasn't changed!!!
    The have, 'The Faraway Tree', 'The Folk of The Faraway Tree', 'The Enchanted Woods'...and a few more ones about the lands at the top of the tree...
    Definately try there, best childrens books ever!! :D


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    Nimrod's Son
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    I used to love those books, that Saucepan Man was my favourite, the poor deaf sod! I know they're still in the house somewhere. I'll look for them when I get a chance.


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    Piste
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    I think I (well my little sister) still have it on video too. :)


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    simu
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    Would she not be available in a standard bookstore anymore? :( Moonface, exploding toffee, weird maths problems... what fun!

    I'm sure I still have it at home somewhere as would many others so you'll probably be able to find a 2nd hand edition easily enough.


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    marshmallow
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    I have it upstairs on my bookshelf. One of my fave books also and was a prez so afraid I won't be parting with it. I'm sure 2nd hand bookshops would have a copy of it. Enid Blyton was very popular.


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    panda100
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    i grew up on enid blyton-my favourite was the naughtiest girl in the school! Well i grew up in England so it might be different over here but we were constantly told that enid blyton was bad to read when you were a kid because it gave you bad english so she was banned from many promary schools in london.There aint nuffin wrong wif my english now (i joke!)


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    Misty Moon
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    It's available in most book shops - we bought this for someone this year and I rang the following and they all had it: Hughes & Hughes, Hodges Figgis, Waterstone. Eason didn't have it in stock but normally do I think. I reckon you'll find it most places. If you look up amazon or a similar website and get the ISBN number it'll make it quicker if you're going into a shop asking for it.


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    ClareBear
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    Ah thanks very much everyone, will try all those places when I get back to Dublin, thanks :D


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    keevita
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    enid blyton, bad english? gosh, i *had* wondered why an irish girl should think to talk in this manner old boy.

    anyway, loved those books, didnt realise there was a cartoon of it, was it any good?


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    Love
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    I used to have it, think I gave it to my little cousin though...


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    Nimrod's Son
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    Meant to post this a few days ago (sorry). This will save you the trouble of having to look for it in the shops:

    http://play.com/play247.asp?pa=search&searchtype=allproducts&searchstring=faraway+tree&page=search


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    ClareBear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭ClareBear


    Ah thanks Nimrod, but I got it yesterday in Cork. Got a copy for one of my housemates too after we spent hours talking about it a few weeks ago so happy days. Thanks! :D


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    simu
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    ClareBear wrote:
    Ah thanks Nimrod, but I got it yesterday in Cork. Got a copy for one of my housemates too after we spent hours talking about it a few weeks ago so happy days. Thanks! :D

    You should have an Enid Blyton picnic party - sandwiches, fresh farmy-stuff and lashings and lashings of ginger ale!


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    Medbhia
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    Nostalgia nearly made me buy another copy of this book a few weeks ago when I saw it on a shelf, (my lack of cash at the time frustrated this particular impulse buy :( )best childhood book ever! :)


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    ClareBear
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    Medbhia wrote:
    best childhood book ever! :)

    Definitely! :D


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    Iofur
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    *sigh*

    I loves this book! So much so I started to read it again last night!


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    Siogfinsceal
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    love this too! They seem to have been reproduced in hard back. Another of my favourites was the wishing chair. I was in a book shop recently and they had the whole collection in a lovely hard back edition


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    Siogfinsceal
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    sorry posted twice by mistake . . . .


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    Oral Slang
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    I bought a hardback 3 in 1 Faraway Tree book for my friends little girl for Christmas in the little bookshop in the square for €4.99.. Might see if they have any left & buy one for myself too. Read one of the books a few years ago & it was still great!


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