Enid Blyton Enid Blyton Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages; her first book, "Child Whispers", a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Secret Seven and Malory Towers series. Following the commercial success of her
Sunny Stories 1926 and November 1936. The magazine was started as a weekly, but its frequency was switched to fortnightly from issue 272. With the renaming in 1937 to "Enid Blyton's Sunny Stories", the magazine began featuring serials of her novels starting with "The Adventures of the Wishing Chair", which was published properly at the end of the year. Blyton ceased contributing in 1953 with issue 553, going on to create "Enid Blyton's Magazine". Another prolific children's author, Malcolm Saville, became editor in 1954 under the shorter title "Sunny Stories". Citations Bibliography Sunny Stories Sunny Stories was a children's magazine published by