History Creator / EnidBlyton

** ''Literature/TheFamousFive'': Not counting the dog, the titular ensemble consists of two boys (Julian and Dick) and two girls (Georgina and Anne)
** ''The Adventure Series: Two boys (Phillip and Jack) and two girls (Dinah and Lucy-Ann)
** ''The Secret Series: Two boys (Jack and Mike) and two girls (Peggy and Nora)
** ''The Far Away Tree: The second book has two boys and two girls.

Enid Mary Blyton (August 11, 1897 - November 28, 1968) was a prolific author of English children's literature, producing around 800 books during her forty-year career, which were many people's first introduction to [[Main/{{Literature}} literature]], and which still sell well to day. To date her books have sold over 600 million copies worldwide.

While her work was highly influential (even all these years later, those who have read Blyton can't help but be reminded of the ''St. Clare's'' and ''Malory Towers'' books while reading about [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]]) there is a fairly large amount of ValuesDissonance strewn liberally among her books, and it has come under controversy, although even that hasn't stopped her books from still being widely bought and read today, maybe because of the common knowledge that ValuesDissonance was very much commonplace in the times she wrote, and it's not always present in them.

In 2009, BBC aired a television exclusive documentary ''Film/{{Enid}}'' which stars Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter as the author. The film goes into detail about her relationship with her family (mainly her daughters) and her career as a children's book author.

Many of her works have been televised or filmed. ''The Famous Five'' is the one most commonly referenced, while ''Noddy'' is popular worldwide for its numerous {{Animated Adaptation}}s, as well as a [[Series/TheNoddyShop children's sitcom based off them]]. Blyton also wrote hundreds of stand-alone novels. Her books still sell around eight million copies a year. The Famous Five books alone sell more than two million copies a year, according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

While her work was highly influential (even all these years later, those who have read Blyton can't help but be reminded of the ''St. Clare's'' and ''Malory Towers'' books while reading about [[Literature/HarryPotter Hogwarts]]) there is a fairly large amount of ValuesDissonance strewn liberally among her books, and it has come under controversy, although even that hasn't stopped her books from still being widely bought and read today.

* ''Literature/TheChildrenOfCherryTreeFarm'': Four siblings from London ends up spending summer at their uncle's countryside home, the titular farm, and ends up ''loving'' the farming life. Receives a sequel titled ''The Children of Willow Farm'' in which the parents end up buying a neighboring farm.

Her writing is mostly set in an idealised version of pre-war England, and reflects the attitudes of the time, using some now-[[{{DeadHorseTrope}} dead tropes]] about race, sex, and social class, commonly mocked when Blyton is parodied. Often, her characters spend days roaming across the countryside, [[FreeRangeChildren without any trace of adult supervision]], eating lavish picnics and having jolly adventures fighting assorted villains.

* AcceptableFeminineGoals: A fair proportion of the girls from Malory Towers seem to avoid this trope - four of them go on to university, one to a ''very'' prestigious musical career, and two set up a business together. One of them would have been an Olympic swimmer except for [[spoilera disregard for the rules which nearly got her killed.]]

* NumberOfObjectsTitle: Her multiple series and books that indicate the number of protagonists.
* OmniDisciplinaryScientist: Uncle Quentin from the ''Famous five'' novels, although it's more an InformedAttribute. He's also something of a BunnyEarsLawyer as well.

Her writing is mostly set in an idealised version of pre-war England, and reflects the attitudes of the time, using some now-[[Main/{{DeadHorseTrope}} dead tropes]] about race, sex, and social class, commonly mocked when Blyton is parodied. Often, her characters spend days roaming across the countryside, [[FreeRangeChildren without any trace of adult supervision]], eating lavish picnics and having jolly adventures fighting assorted villains.

* AcceptableFeminineGoals: A fair proportion of the girls from Malory Towers seem to avoid this trope - four of them go on to university, one to a ''very'' prestigious musical career, and two set up a business together. One of them would have been an Olympic swimmer except for [[spoiler: a disregard for the rules which nearly got her killed.]]

* [[Main/{{AmateurSleuth}} Amateur Sleuth]]

* ''Literature/TheMistletoeFarm'': [[note]] Alternatively titled ''Six Cousins'' [[/note]] A farming family in the countryside ends up having to share living with their three spoilt city cousins after the cousins' house gets burnt down in a fire.

** In the Famous Five, Georgina always calls herself George to the point that her use of her full name is used as an OutOfCharacterAlert in one book. George is the most tomboyish of Blyton's tomboys, fiercely resenting any reference to her being a girl and any effort to make her behave like one. The AlternateCharacterInterpretation in FanFic is that George is a transgender man.
** Wilhelmina Robinson of ''Malory Towers'' insists on being called Bill. She has seven brothers and so is 'more of a boy than a girl herself', and eschews all typically feminine pursuits in favour of her obsession with horses.
** Roberta, the resident tomboy of ''St Claire's'', is always known as Bobby. Unlike temperamental George and distant Bill, Bobby is a good-humoured and quick-witted class clown.

* [[Main/{{EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep}} Everyone Calls Him Barkeep]]: Kollamoolitumarellipawkyrollo from ''The Faraway Tree'' books, for obvious reasons.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Practically all the main characters in Malory Towers - Darrell and Sally, Alicia and Betty, Mary-Lou and Daphne, and there's outright LesYay between Bill and Clarissa.
** Pamela Cox's Malory Towers sequels also have many of these, usually as Expys of other characters. The LesYay implication between Bill and Clarissa is upped by the new horse-mad duo, Julie and Lucy, implied when Lucy excitedly mentions how when they leave school they are going to live together. They're running a stables together, but Lucy's wording makes it sound as if she's thinking of Julie as a romantic partner.
** A Dutch [[http://www.pitty.nl/ college-set sequel]] makes it a lot more explicit.

* ''Literature/TheAdventureSeries'' (8 books). Four children and their cockatoo have an adventure each time they go on holiday together.

* ''Literature/TheAdventureSeries'' (8 books). An adventurous boy named Philip and his, uhm, adventures with his cousins in the Greek Isles. Contains eight books in total, in order: ''The Island of Adventure'' [[note]] a.k.a Mystery Island [[/note]] (1944), ''The Castle of Adventure'' (1946), ''The Valley of Adventure'' (1947), ''The Sea of Adventure'' (1948), ''The Mountain of Adventure'' (1949), ''The Ship of Adventure'' (1950), ''The Circus of Adventure'' (1952) and ''The River of Adventure'' (1955).

* ''Literature/BinkleAndFlip'': Two bunnies in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals. The former is a naughty troublemaker, while the latter is far more sensible but constantly gets dragged into trouble by his pal. Could be considered a predecessor to ''Brer Rabbit'' below.

** In the Famous Five, Georgina always calls herself George to the point that her use of her full name is used as an OutOfCharacterAlert in one book. George is the most tomboyish of Blyton's tomboys, fiercely resenting any reference to her being a girl and any effort to make her behave like one. The AlternateCharacterInterpretation in FanFic is that George is a {{transgender}} man.

* AnimatedAdaptation: ''Noddy'' in particular got ''multiple'' TV adaptations, most of which OvertookTheSeries.

** One Literature/TheSecretSeven book had Janet up late at night reading a book about [[four children and their dog having lots of adventures Literature/{{TheFamousFive}}]]

** One Literature/TheSecretSeven book had Janet up late at night reading a book about [[four children and their dog having lots of adventures Literature/TheFamousFive]]

** One Literature/TheSecretSeven book had Janet up late at night reading a book about {{four children and their dog having lots of adventures Literature/TheFamousFive}}

** One Literature/TheSecretSeven book had Janet up late at night reading a book about {{Literature/TheFamousFive four children and their dog having lots of adventures}}

** Giggly midnight feasts with a main course of tinned pineapple and peaches, chocolate and sweets, followed by an enormous iced birthday cake for dessert. Despite the huge quantities, the girls invariably manage to eat everything before the feast is inevitably disturbed.

Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a prolific author of English children's literature, producing around 800 books during her forty-year career, which were many people's first introduction to [[Main/{{Literature}} literature]], and which still sell well to day. To date her books have sold over 600 million copies worldwide.