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The blurb that has Mr. Pink-Whistle going about the world may not necessarily be true. I think he confines himself more to the highways and byways of England but we can suppose, in the unlikely event that injustices became a little scarce in the Motherland, he could zoom off to some other country. There have been plenty of reprints - a fairly common occurrence with Blyton books, and the well-known EB artist, Dorothy Wheeler, has contributed plenty of pictures.

The Sailor Doll Goes to Sea; and, The Meddlesome Butterfly by Enid Blyton. London, Award Publications, 1996. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-08-22 11:07:49 Boxid IA1913502 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier My First Picture Book of Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. 1975; as Hans Andersen Fairy Tales, London, Award, 1996. The Tale of Scissors the Gnome; and, How Derry the Dormouse Lost His Secret by Enid Blyton. London, Award, 1994.

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I was entranced by the tales and devoured them eagerly. A bright, cosy world opened up before me - one in which characters sometimes experienced disappointment, sadness or cruelty but in which, ultimately, justice was done, jollity and goodness prevailed and there were copious supplies of buns for tea. This book is a book written for babies, and me reading it as a grown-ass adult is going to result in some amount of eye-rolling, which is not really its fault because it's written for very young children. In 2013–2014 Cloke's work was included in the exhibition "Grimm Girls: Picturing the Princess" at The Otter Gallery at the University of Chichester. [3] Partial list of publications with Cloke's artwork [ edit ] Books [ edit ]

Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000263 Openlibrary_edition Born in Plymouth, England in 1904, Cloke never trained formally as an artist and was largely self taught. [1] She was the older sister of concert pianist Olive Cloke. [1] Their father was a bank manager. [1] She began her career as an illustrator in the 1920s with W. R. Chambers Publishers. [1] Her first work of note for that publisher was as the artist for The Radiant Way children's book series. [1] She continued to illustrate children's books for the next seven decades, working for most major publishers in the United Kingdom. [1] Some of the books she illustrated include, Alice in Wonderland, Red Riding Hood Goes to the Teddy-Bear's Picnic, Joy Bells, Little Boy Blues Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales, Little Folk's First Book, Enid Blyton's Everyday Book series, My Best Book of Enid Blyton Stories and Woodland Tales among many others. She also illustrated several religious books for children. [2] She worked for many years as an artist for Medici Cards, designing more than 100 greeting cards for that company. [1] Her work was also featured in the magazine Playhour. As can be expected from a book of this type, both the prose and the plot are very simple. Blyton's language is very no-frills, focusing on actions rather than emotions. She tells rather than shows a little more than I like, but I guess any more and it would get a little to complicated for beginner readers. The plot pretty much follows variations of "person is wronged by circumstances/other people" and the protagonist then spends time helping or punishing accordingly.Would you like to see Mr Pink-Whistle make a jump to other media - television, film, animated shorts, comic strips, toys and so on? If so, what would you like to see? I must admit, I would love to see a series of animated shorts based on the stories or maybe an animated television series that includes two stories per episode. That would be fun to watch if it was done well. Enid Blyton's Gift Book of Bedtime Stories (some illus. from Enid Blyton's Everyday Book series). London, Dean, 1978. There's a band of children who do what Mr. Pink-Whistle does. They call themselves The Put-Em-Rights and EB has produced a book that tells us all about them.

urn:lcp:mrpinkwhistlesto0000blyt_d0p0:epub:964b0df8-f4c0-4e76-aa8c-d6979e40bc43 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mrpinkwhistlesto0000blyt_d0p0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8gg0kv0d Invoice 1652 Isbn 0099542005 Red Riding Hood Goes to the Teddy Bears' Picnic by Bey Royle. Bognor Regis & London, John Crowther, 1943.

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I wrote a 2-part article on Mr. Pink-Whistle for Enid Blyton Society Journals 38 and 39 (Spring and Summer 2009) so I'll use extracts from that article in my answers. Thus, one cannot help wondering which of our on-line posts will somehow survive into the future, and what the verdict(s) will be? Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9849 Ocr_module_version 0.0.8 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA400076 Openlibrary_edition The language has already been updated in modern versions of the Pink-Whistle books, but personally I think that's a pity as I feel that the stories don't need altering. Enid Blyton's style is so utterly readable and the tales largely timeless, so why meddle with them? Mr Toad Comes Home, from Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, adapted by Jane Carruth. London, Award, 1993.

A bad-tempered, blind man whom the children call nasty names is the subject of another quite touching tale that has, as always when Pink-Whistle's around, a happy ending. I just read The Adventures of Mr Pink-Whistle for the first time in ages and will continue with the series this week. I thought it might be a nice time to start a decent thread about Enid Blyton's magical little philanthropist, although I gather from browsing the boards that not everyone is Mr Pink-Whistle's greatest fan. Anyway, here goes. Copy and paste the questions, filling in your own answers. Any other discussion that arises is, of course, welcome! I'll answer the questions a bit later once I've had some more time to finish revisiting the other books. Enid Blyton's Nature Lover's Book, illustrators Donia Nachshen and Noel Hopking, published by Evans Brothers While the idea of trying to set things right is a noble cause (such as buying a new doll for a girl who had hers broken, or buying some good clothes for a poor family) seeking vengeance against bad people is probably not something that we should be encouraging children to do. While it is true that we should look after our pets by making sure they are fed and given clean places to live, I don't think stealing the bad owner's food, or messing up their bedrooms a good thing. Okay, in the story Mr Pink Whistle did teach these children a lesson, which they learnt, but that is not always the case. For instance there is the story about Wilfred. It is clear that he is a self-centred bully that lives by instilling fear among those around him. What Mr Pink Whistle can get away with, we can't, and while the best way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them and not let them scare us, we do have to be intelligent about the way we go about it.

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I consider the Mr. Pink-Whistle stories as relevant today as they ever were, despite having been written in the 1940s-50s. For children to read about a little man who "goes about the world putting wrong things right" is inspiring as well as comforting. Pink-Whistle is motivated by a love of justice, feeling great compassion for anyone who is treated badly, and he realises that merely feeling sorry is not enough. As he says in 'The Little Secret Man', "It's no good being sorry about things if you don't do something to put them right!" How many campaigners for justice have been inspired by Enid Blyton, I wonder, or even specifically by Mr. Pink-Whistle? To empathise with Mr. Pink-Whistle is to aspire to make a difference in society. The idea of children aspiring to be like the little man is made explicit in some of the tales, including 'Mr. Pink-Whistle's Party' in which Merry declares: "I love you, Mr. Pink-Whistle. You go round the world putting wrong things right - and that's what I'm going to do too!" He replies, "You do it already," indicating that he recognises in her a kindred spirit. Merry sums up the Pink-Whistle stories when she says, "...my Mother says everyone ought to do something to help other people, and if we can't see something we've got to look for it." This is a collection of stories about a half-brownie named Mr Pinkwhistle. One day Mr Pinkwhistle realises that bad things seem to happen to good people so he decides that he will use is abilities to actually try to set things right for these people because it hurts him to see all of these bad things happen. This is a very noble cause, and not only that, I also notice that it is not just a nice person helping people out, but rather a person who has abilities using these abilities to actually help people. The thing is that Mr Pink Whistle knows what it is like to be different (we are told that because he is a half-brownie he doesn't fit in with the brownies or the humans), but instead of wallowing in his misery, he uses his uniqueness to do good for people.

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