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Enid Blyton
Celebrated for her story series such as The Famous Five, Noddy and Malory Towers, children’s writer Enid Blyton is the cornerstone of many a child’s literary education.
Enid Blyton explains in her own words how inspiring children to live moral, happy lives is the driving force behind her writing. She reveals how she uses her own children as sounding boards for all of her stories in order to be sure she her books have continued success.
Enid Blyton died, aged 71, on 28 November 1968.
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