Barbara Stoney

This article began: If you have small children and they don't like Noddy, you are very lucky. I have, they do; I am not. By the end of the decade, says EB 's biographer...

Mr. Galliano's Circus, unusually for EB , has several strongly-drawn grown-up characters; this makes biographer Barbara Stoney suspect she was recycling material from her abortive adult novel.

The first number appeared of Enid Blyton's Magazine, the month after the end of her previous periodical for children, Sunny Stories.

She had worked furiously on this novel (writing as much as 7,000 words a day). Her biographer Barbara Stoney speculates that after its rejection it may have served as the basis for a children's novel,...