“Hie-diddle-ho-diddle, derry-derry down!”*

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From the previous post on fashion bloggers and great events, I’d like to point out that the Fashion Nation team is just happy to go to all events we have been invited to like a teenage student at her first prefect investiture, dressed up in our most presentable frocks, then head back and scribble away our thoughts and fancies for the world to read.

Very much the way little girls in storybooks feel when Enid Blyton characters have been invited by pixies to a fairy party!

I love Enid Blyton stories, and I have to say my children’s books collection is close to four times my adult books. I am very much a geek at heart in this way - and really I grew up with Dorothy Muriel Wheeler’s illustrations for five of Enid Blyton’s series: The Magic Faraway Tree series, the Josie Click and Bun series, the Mr Pink-Whistle series, the Mr Tumpy series (in strip book form) and the O’Clock Tales short story compilations.

Of course, of course! I am 100% in love with the Magic Faraway Tree series. If I could run away and live there, I would, even if the Land of the Angry is above the ladder today! But of course, let’s allow our imaginations to run on this late Monday night, and indulge in these lovely illustrations from Ms. Wheeler’s magic pen:

 

 

** Photo credits from here, and the title of the post is from Saucepan Man’s first song in The Enchanted Wood, which is the first book of the Faraway Tree Collection. For lovers of the Famous Five (I am the proud reader who has completed all 26 titles in the series), you absolutely must click here for this tongue-in-cheek article about the power struggle between Julian, Dick and George. “Jolly, awfully jolly good!” as Julian puts it in the article.

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