The Most Beautiful Fantasy of Childhood. Review on Faraway Tree, The - Enid Blyton

Imagine a place in the countryside called The Enchanted Wood where three ordinary children live on its edge and have adventures inside it where there is the most enormous cute tree which has people living in it. And these are not ordinary mortals but pixies, elves, talking animals, brownies, wizards, and a lovable person called Moon-Face because he has a round face like the moon!

Jo, Bessie and Fanny share their adventures in three books of this series

1. The Enchanted Wood

   
   




2. The Magic Faraway Tree

   
   




3. Folks of The Faraway Tree

   
   

The Enchanted wood grows very thickly, and if you listen carefully, you can hear the trees whispering ''Wisha-wisha''! In the middle of this wood is the most enchanted tree in the world called 'The Magic Faraway Tree' which has queer fairy-folk living on every branch and grows every kind of fruit! The tree grows right upto the clouds, and at the top of it there's always some strange land. By climbing up a little ladder through a hole in the cloud that always lies on the top of the tree, you can get into some peculiar land! There is a different land from time to time, and what lands! There is the land of treats, the land of spells, the land of secrets, the land of tea-parties, the land of know-alls, the land of nursery-rhymes and almost anything you could ever imagine! Try thinking up of more lands, it is a child's treat to play it as a game!

Reading these books takes me on a magical journey, refreshing my childhood, making me remember all those myriad fantasies of those yesteryears well-spent with these beautiful books...