Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ada-uts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!cca!ada-uts!chris From: chris@ada-uts.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Query regarding author. Message-ID: <8500008@ada-uts.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 09:16:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ada-uts.8500008 Posted: Thu Aug 15 09:16:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 23:54:28 EDT References: <751@asgb.UUCP> Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #R:asgb:-75100:ada-uts:8500008:000:1124 Nf-From: ada-uts!chris Aug 15 09:16:00 1985 The author's name is indeed Enid Blyton, and while growing up in England I read all her famous five books and numerous Secret seven. She seemed to be quite popular at the time, but I have no idea how she is faring now. If I remember rightly she also wrote the Noddy series which was for very young children. I don't think I've ever seen any of her books here in the United States, but I think they may have them in Canada. She was certainly very prolific with many more than 20 Famous fives, as many Secret sevens, and various other fairy tale type books for young children. Now that I come to think of it, I think she may have had another series of young detectives that called themselves "the finder- outers" or something like that and the books were always called "The mysterious ____". As an aside, I think for some time her books were frowned upon as being a bad influence on children because the characters would sometimes use slang common at the time. Also, she was British. Chris Gosling UUCP: {bellcore,ima, ihnp4}!inmet!faust!chris Intermetrics Inc. INTERNET: ima!inmet!faust!chris@CCA-UNIX.ARPA