Enid Blyton the late 1940s onwards; by the early 1960s some 146 different companies were involved in merchandising Noddy alone. In 1948 Bestime released four jigsaw puzzles featuring her characters, and the first Enid Blyton board game appeared, "Journey Through Fairyland", created by BGL. The first card game, Faraway Tree, appeared from Pepys in 1950. In 1954 Bestime released the first four jigsaw puzzles of the Secret Seven, and the following year a Secret Seven card game appeared. Bestime released the Little Noddy Car Game in 1953 and the Little Noddy Leap Frog Game in 1955, and in 1956 American manufacturer Parker
Five on a Treasure Island Five on a Treasure Island Five on a Treasure Island (published in 1942) is a popular children's book by Enid Blyton. It is the first book in "The Famous Five" series. The first edition of the book was illustrated by Eileen Soper. It has been suggested that the book was influenced by L. T. Meade's 1892 book "Four on an Island", which also recounts a story of four related children including a tomboy along with a dog living on an island with a shipwreck. When siblings Julian, Dick and Anne learn that they cannot go for their usual summer holiday