The Amelia Jane Collection

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She's also pushed the teddy bear into the goldfish bowl before today, and even poured milk down the golliwog's neck, so that gives a fair indication of her leanings. Well, it happens and there's a nice picture of the visitor lassoing the clock-work mouse - under Amelia Jane's instigation of course. The Sylvia Venus illustrations in the 'Amelia Jane' series are drawn in a totally different way from her pictures in earlier books.

More About Amelia Jane! by Enid Blyton

When the poor creature sees itself thus attired there's a mad dash for freedom but the door's closed so the only place to run is up the chimney. The spell-checker doesn't approve of such a word so perhaps the stuff has gone from our nurseries, but in 1939 Amelia Jane managed to get hold of some and then got stuck into creating a few novel ways to use it. Later on, an opportunity comes to reciprocate the favour when the brownies are attacked by goblins and, as weird as it sounds, Amelia Jane becomes a heroine! The clockwork clown suffers and the golden-haired doll suffers, so Amelia Jane is being true to her prefix, i. In the 50's and 60's Blyton was criticized for the language in her book, for being to simple, but some 300 are still in print today.

Maybe it's because I read these stories one after another, but I found them repetitive and rather boring. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters.

Amelia Jane Again! by Enid Blyton Amelia Jane Again! by Enid Blyton

Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. But the toys do sometimes manage to get her back - like painting spots on her to make her think she's got the measles, and making a special record to tell her what they really think of her! Doesn't take much brain matter to imagine what Amelia Jane would do with a gun because we're all aware of her mischievous nature.I think I might have to re-think again in a couple of years whether or not I would want to read these to my kids as a bedtime story.

The Amelia Jane Collection: Over 20 stories : Blyton, Enid

Amelia Jane is a very naughty doll and is constantly getting into trouble with the other toys in the nursery. The only trouble is that she gets her kicks by playing tricks and annoying the other toys in various ways. Thing is, I keep on wondering what would I have thought as a child, reading or being read these stories to?She was a doll given to the author's elder daughter (Gillian) and it appears that Enid Blyton sometimes sat Amelia Jane on her knee at meal-times and manipulated her to such good effect that her daughters thought the doll was really acting up. Yes, one can safely say that Amelia Jane is about the biggest toy in the nursery and that gives her an advantage because it's hard to combat naughtiness in a doll who towers over everyone else - unless there's a combining of forces. In this book, she snips the tail off the pink rabbit, squirts Tom the soldier with water and gets up to mischief at the beach. After working on the column for years, Blyton quit "Teachers World" in 1945 and also ended her stint as editor of "Sunny Stories" seven years later. Bit sad that Golly has been omitted from this updated edition though, he was one of my favourite characters.