Jo has been changed to Joe, the more common spelling for males, and Bessie is now Beth, the former name having fallen out of use as a nickname for Elizabeth.

Please Please please bring back all the books in faraway tree series and the other series on the same lines.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The premise is simple enough: a family from the city with three children (a boy and two girls) move out to the countryside. Their father has a cousin who lives in the tree and would you believe it — the cousin's name is Moonface (without a hyphen). Yet in the fourth book by Blyton, Up The Faraway Tree, Silky is introduced to Robin and Joy as a pixie: ″So Joy knocked—and the door flew open, and there stood little Silky the pixie.

Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. There is plenty of magic, and because there are several books in the collection they are more memorable than the one-off stories in a volume like The Blue Story Book. We are not given much glimpse into the adult world here namely because not only is this a children's book, but we are looking at the world through the eyes of the children.Like the Secret Seven series they would belong more in the classification of books for younger readers but there is a factor in these tales that separates them from other fairy/fantasy stories. Connie, a spoilt and stuck-up girl, comes to stay for the summer with the three children while her mother is sick. Sure my friends and I got a bit of a snigger out of the names the first time we heard them, but if my own experience is anything to go by, most likely children will get over the connotations in the names because they're more interested in the adventures the characters have.