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    (1939) The Faraway Tree Series #1
    The Enchanted Wood
    When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, they discover an Enchanted Wood just outside their doorstep. Soon they find the Faraway Tree, which is the beginning of many magical adventures....
    Join them and their new friends Silky the fairy, Saucepan Man and Moonface, as they discover which new land awaits them at the top of the Faraway Tree.
    Will they visit the Land of Treats, the Land of Spells, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? Come with them on an amazing adventure - there will be magic and fun at every turn.
    This recording follows the original text, first published in 1939. It does not contain the following chapters, which were first written for Enid Blyton's Omnibus! published in 1952, and later inserted into some editions of The Enchanted Wood:
    Up to the Land of Toys
    They get into trouble
    Mr Oom-Boom-Boom
    In Santa Claus's Castle
    By Enid Blyton; read by Kate Winslet

Komentáře • 142

  • @pauljeavons8878
    @pauljeavons8878 Před 3 měsíci +4

    So love these books. One story a night. Became looking forward to the night.

  • @joneslawgroup1190
    @joneslawgroup1190 Před měsícem +3

    I love this book ❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊Kate Winslet does a good job

  • @stevecray8282
    @stevecray8282 Před 7 měsíci +4

    My late nan used to read these books to my dear late mum, who in turn read them to me. I have read them to my kids , who I'm sure will read them to theirs when they have children. What a magical place to visit in a world of turmoil. Thank you mum, for making my childhood all the more magical. 💙🙏🏻

  • @tendaifrancisgodwin1556
    @tendaifrancisgodwin1556 Před 9 měsíci +16

    Absolutely love this book

  • @user-MSSN
    @user-MSSN Před 2 měsíci +4

    Lovely, mesmerizing voice. The best narrator ever is Kate Winslet. Thank you. My daughters enjoy your way of reading, perfect diction, and intonation. Michelle

  • @zeljkovanis1180
    @zeljkovanis1180 Před 10 měsíci +27

    it helps me to sleep 💗

  • @rosera17
    @rosera17 Před 8 měsíci +9

    Enid Blytons books carried me through my childhood years. I used to read the stories to my Grandma, especially when she was ill and laid up in bed.❤. I am so delighted for your postings. Thank you❤

  • @shashinidesilva4876
    @shashinidesilva4876 Před 3 měsíci +4

    This is a amazing story .

  • @robynblondie1132
    @robynblondie1132 Před 4 měsíci +7

    I literally can’t thank you enough for this ❤✌🏻 it’s been my saviour for nights now

  • @edfiddian6848
    @edfiddian6848 Před 8 měsíci +12

    I’m 6 old and I love Enid Blyton ‘s FARAWAY TREE so much because it’s so funny.” Anika

  • @tigertom4285
    @tigertom4285 Před 11 měsíci +12

    These books have always made me feel safe and happy ever since I was a kid to where I am now

  • @shashinidesilva4876
    @shashinidesilva4876 Před 3 měsíci +5

    This is the best story,I LOVED IT!❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @peterlast3815
    @peterlast3815 Před 4 měsíci +6

    I love the faraway tree its one of my fave book series it has been for 5 years nows it will all ways be thank you have a good day zara😀♥♥🔮

    • @Rosiethetic_official
      @Rosiethetic_official Před 4 měsíci +1

      Same! It helps me go to sleep ❤❤

    • @ryanjones1938
      @ryanjones1938 Před 19 dny

      I get that. Here I am 40 years later listening to a butchered version of it. There's full chapters missing from this.

  • @zeljkovanis1180
    @zeljkovanis1180 Před 10 měsíci +9

    these are the best books i love them. for the hole year i have had them to help me sleep

  • @Lynx112
    @Lynx112 Před 5 měsíci +3

    My gran bought me most Enid Blyton books, these Enchanted Wood series were my favourite! I have a small collection of fairy ornaments now. I love hearing these again ❤

  • @sengadelgado5354
    @sengadelgado5354 Před 3 měsíci +6

    Life was so wholesome, innocent and lovely back then.
    I’d sooner those childhood years than one today.

  • @leahdavies4267
    @leahdavies4267 Před rokem +31

    These were among my favourite books growing up.i read them to my two boys too. Enid Blyton books will always have a special place in my heart.

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před rokem +4

      Glad you like them!

    • @mjfootballfan786
      @mjfootballfan786 Před rokem +1

      ​@@VigilanteJustice_1 i like the faraway tree my favourite books🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

    • @tigertom4285
      @tigertom4285 Před rokem

      Out of all the books in the world this is the best book ever so thank you for recording these books 😊😄😉😎👌😃😁😄👍💕✌️

    • @tigertom4285
      @tigertom4285 Před rokem

      That’s really nice

    • @tarryhankin1011
      @tarryhankin1011 Před 11 měsíci

      ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  • @shashinidesilva4876
    @shashinidesilva4876 Před 3 měsíci +4

    BEST STORY EVER ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @treez7384
    @treez7384 Před 8 měsíci +6

    Helps me to get to sleep and it has been for 3 years

  • @tigertom4285
    @tigertom4285 Před rokem +15

    Out of all the books in the world this book has always and will always have a good place in my heart so thank you 😄😁😃✌️💕👍👌😎😉☺️❤️😊

  • @sarahlombardi3038
    @sarahlombardi3038 Před 6 měsíci +6

    So good and I hope you have a good day

  • @karolinabigott7985
    @karolinabigott7985 Před 6 měsíci +4

    I don't like the music in between, but I like how you read it 😊

  • @mjfootballfan786
    @mjfootballfan786 Před rokem +10

    Thanks for putting it on youtube so people can see it ❤ you i listen to it and helps me sleep so thanks God bless you ❤

  • @Juliak897
    @Juliak897 Před měsícem +1

    Love it! Best reading ever!

  • @alixfox7568
    @alixfox7568 Před rokem +13

    Thank you, was going to buy this but here it is for free, bless you ❤

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před rokem +3

      Hope you enjoy it!

    • @mjfootballfan786
      @mjfootballfan786 Před rokem +2

      ​@@VigilanteJustice_1 I listen to this all the time🎉because it is fun and adventures I can pictures in my head it is great bless you❤

  • @lucymendes2512
    @lucymendes2512 Před 11 měsíci +9

    I managed to collect the 1980s version which still have the lovely language in them ❤

    • @BluAnnaTC
      @BluAnnaTC Před 9 měsíci +1

      Is that the original audio cassettes they are rare I can’t find them anywhere

    • @lucymendes2512
      @lucymendes2512 Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@BluAnnaTC no, sadly just the books. I had the cassettes when I was young but they have been long gone 😞 but I love how "old-fashioned" the wording is.

  • @user-vw7yw5zz8z
    @user-vw7yw5zz8z Před měsícem +1

    Thank u for this vid ❤❤xxx

  • @bubblezovlove7213
    @bubblezovlove7213 Před rokem +8

    I used to think she was called Enid Button because that's what her signature looked like it said to me at six......

  • @avia-dawnwalcott6006
    @avia-dawnwalcott6006 Před rokem +10

    I love these. These books helped to make my childhood transcendent. My mind took me places with the help of stories such as ‘Once in a Blue Moon’

  • @lindahunter6643
    @lindahunter6643 Před rokem +16

    I think you have to remember she was born in 1897, it was a different world

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před rokem +6

      She can not at all be "excused" for her inexcusable sexist/racist attitudes by it being a "different world" back then. My grandfather was born in 1880, my grandmother was born in 1887. Yes they had their "traditional" roles in the family but he knew how to cook and wash dishes when needed and she knew how to do basic home repairs when needed. They raised their 3 sons and 4 daughters to do the same. They also raised them to be non-sexist and non-racist although they were born and lived their entire lives in Alabama... a truly "different world".

    • @lindahunter6643
      @lindahunter6643 Před rokem +6

      I know exactly where you're coming from and to an extent I agree.I came from a poor family in the north east of England. My great grandmother who I remember vividly brought up 11 children by hook or crook, salmon and game poached from the country .We were all aware even in the 1970s when she died at 94 of the difference between us and them (the better off our so called superiors)I can laugh at their ignorance now,their narrow mindedness.I see my brother now head of slovanic languages at Glasgow university,myself with a degree in later life. Nothing bought,all earned by our efforts. I was a Jo,the dirty little gipsy girl,come a long way since then.brought my kids up without prejudice or money and their thriving,living well. So for me,I can laugh at the ignorance and fear of the common folk they had because anything is possible now

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před rokem +2

      @@fraufreundt6849, excuse me? Why are you "shouting" at me? I am well aware the stories are fictional... not real. "Shouting" at me like that is really rude and really uncalled for!
      And did I say I was upset? No, I simply said that my grandparents and parents who were born in that "different world" performed but were not confined to or defined by their "traditional" roles in the family and that Enid Blyton's being born in that did not "excuse" her for her inexcusable sexist/racist attitudes by it being a "different world" back then. In fact, considering the fact that she functioned in a far from "traditional" role herself, some of the attitudes she promoted in the characters in her books is even more inexcusable.

    • @lindahunter6643
      @lindahunter6643 Před rokem +2

      @@VigilanteJustice_1 I'd actually agree with you vigilante and someone shouting at you is completely unacceptable,we may choose 2 disagree but we're all allowed 2 have different views,perspectives,so whoever you were,give it a blooming break!

    • @lindahunter6643
      @lindahunter6643 Před rokem

      Enid blyton much as I enjoy the stories was a racist,elitest bigot but she was a product of her era and background.I can now shrug my shoulders and go mwah but vigilante is completely correct

  • @englishrose47
    @englishrose47 Před 2 měsíci +2

    FGS she was a woman of her time. She wrote these books in the 1930s, not the 2020s.

  • @YogaMandala-wq2hf
    @YogaMandala-wq2hf Před měsícem +4

    I L O V E I T S O M U C H

  • @tigertom4285
    @tigertom4285 Před rokem +6

    I love your voices for the people

  • @tigertom4285
    @tigertom4285 Před rokem +4

    Thanks for these beautiful videos there amazing and they help me and my brother get to sleep so thx

  • @henryreader2771
    @henryreader2771 Před rokem +6

    I have the books! Love them

  • @AnyaSpurr-un8lj
    @AnyaSpurr-un8lj Před rokem +6

    Love this listen to if every night

  • @Nellmiller012
    @Nellmiller012 Před rokem +10

    I am so gutted they changed all the names why do people have to be so dirty minded

    • @susanodonnell5291
      @susanodonnell5291 Před 3 měsíci +1

      They've missed out 4 chapters as we'll 22-25

    • @ryanjones1938
      @ryanjones1938 Před 19 dny

      That's why I said this isn't what Enid blyton wrote. It's a joke.

  • @user-vw7yw5zz8z
    @user-vw7yw5zz8z Před měsícem

    This is an amazing vidioe i love your vids sorry for the spelling mistakes btw pls reply to this xx

  • @treez7384
    @treez7384 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Alright

  • @Lynx112
    @Lynx112 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Im sure its Fanny not Franny. 😂

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před 5 měsíci

      To please the PC crowd, the publishers changed it to Franny because of the sexual anatomical connotations of "Fanny" (in the UK and Ireland Fanny is a slang term for the vagina). They also changed "Dick" to "Rick". I expect they'd also have changed "Willy" to "Billy" if that had been a character's name.😜
      And let's not forget the changing of the nursery rhyme "Pussy in the well" to "Kitty in the well" as I have seen done in several places.😋

    • @Lynx112
      @Lynx112 Před 5 měsíci

      @@VigilanteJustice_1 Yeah I'm a Brit too. It's not like were 13yr olds giggling at a name that was very common. I get what you're saying obviously though lol

    • @Rosiethetic_official
      @Rosiethetic_official Před 4 měsíci

      ⁠@@Lynx112its franny :)

  • @deborahhulme5137
    @deborahhulme5137 Před 8 měsíci +2

    3:46:08 (bookmark)

  • @susanodonnell5291
    @susanodonnell5291 Před 3 měsíci +1

    There a big chumk missing chapter 22 to 25 are not in this

  • @kathyannsankar9650
    @kathyannsankar9650 Před rokem +4

    I wish these were a movie

    • @tigertom4285
      @tigertom4285 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Yeah I know it would be amazing

  • @Naomi_123adam
    @Naomi_123adam Před 5 měsíci +3

    When I die the first person I want to meet is Enid Blanton #marryme

  • @mowerboy7914
    @mowerboy7914 Před rokem +3

    You are cool😜😎😎😎!

  • @mrmods7912
    @mrmods7912 Před 5 měsíci +4

    I knew the woke lot would chip in somewhere... Just enjoy the books!!!

  • @deborahhulme5137
    @deborahhulme5137 Před 8 měsíci +2

    4:49:15

  • @paddypup1836
    @paddypup1836 Před 6 měsíci +2

    47

    • @karolinabigott7985
      @karolinabigott7985 Před 6 měsíci +1

      What do you mean by 47 ?

    • @robynblondie1132
      @robynblondie1132 Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@karolinabigott7985it’s prob the minutes into the video they are. Like a time stamp memory 😊

  • @KiriGibson
    @KiriGibson Před 3 měsíci +1

    😂❤🎉😢😮😅😊😊

  • @moniqueturnbull2003
    @moniqueturnbull2003 Před rokem +29

    Her name was fanny........not franny

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před rokem +21

      To please the PC crowd, the publishers changed it to Franny because of the sexual anatomical connotations of "Fanny" (in the UK and Ireland Fanny is a slang term for the vagina). They also changed "Dick" to "Rick". I expect they'd also have changed "Willy" to "Billy" if that had been a character's name.😜
      And let's not forget the changing of the nursery rhyme "Pussy in the well" to "Kitty in the well" as I have seen done in several places.😋

    • @mowerboy7914
      @mowerboy7914 Před rokem +2

      Bruh

    • @dpinto6278
      @dpinto6278 Před rokem +9

      Beth was Bessie. Dame Slap became Dame Snap.

    • @Nellmiller012
      @Nellmiller012 Před rokem +1

      ⁠that’s disgusting

    • @ayrishdey8017
      @ayrishdey8017 Před rokem

      Your wrong

  • @jennifermcdonald5432
    @jennifermcdonald5432 Před rokem +33

    I have loved these books all my life. I do find it a tiny bit disappointing that Ms Blyton so determinedly reinforced the old stereotypes. She had such a wonderful chance to broaden children’s horizons, to break the moulds. Not in any outlandish ways, just little things like boys cooking or doing dishes, or girls building things like stools or a ladder, or perhaps working in the garden. I don’t know, any tiny little thing would’ve been fantastic.

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před rokem +17

      Yes, I do agree. Also besides being "sexist" (which I can sort of "forgive" due to the times these were being written) she was also extremely racist (which I really can't entirely "forgive"). I am over 70 but I can honestly say that my parents raised me (in the 50s and 60s) to be neither sexist or racist. My mother was born and raised in Alabama, both her grandfathers and several uncles served in the Confederate army, yet I can say with complete honesty that I never met a single person in her extended family who was at all racist. I certainly can not say the same about my father's "Yankee" parents though. I don't know how he grew up avoiding being corrupted by their racism, but he and two of his brothers did.

    • @jennifermcdonald5432
      @jennifermcdonald5432 Před rokem +10

      @@littleowldme Wow! You’re a huge ball of angry, calm down. I’m entitled to my opinion, you don’t have to go off just because you feel different!

    • @mowerboy7914
      @mowerboy7914 Před rokem +5

      ​@@VigilanteJustice_1 🎉

    • @shahanaknight3827
      @shahanaknight3827 Před rokem +5

      It is amazing we have listened for 4hours non stop

    • @shahanaknight3827
      @shahanaknight3827 Před rokem +5

      It has made us feel like we are at the pace and feel the feelings my two children love it to and listen to it every night 💕💕

  • @mjfootballfan786
    @mjfootballfan786 Před rokem +2

    I like the eding of the book because i wish i was there because i would wished from the birthday 🎂 🍰 i would of wished for a iPhone 📱 14 but i have a Samsung galaxy s9

    • @VigilanteJustice_1
      @VigilanteJustice_1  Před rokem +2

      I'm glad you like the book.
      But truth to tell I wouldn't have an iPhone if it was given me for free! I have a Samsung Galaxy A70 that I have had for about 5/6 years and I won't "upgrade" to anything "better" even though my service provider sends me a new "upgraded" model free every couple of years (I sell the "upgrade" on FB Marketplace🤣).

    • @mjfootballfan786
      @mjfootballfan786 Před rokem +2

      I have a channel i have 240 subscribes it is about football ⚽️ and it is called mj football

  • @susanjolly3295
    @susanjolly3295 Před 2 měsíci +4

    It’s the woke world we live in, god forbid we should offend anyone

    • @jennifermcdonald5432
      @jennifermcdonald5432 Před 18 dny +2

      Don’t be so silly, no one, mentioned anything about being offended, and I’m certainly not in the least offended. I have adored Enid Blyton all my life, her stories have always given me a safe, secure feeling with just a touch of magic mixed in. Please don’t lump me in with the woke types, because I’m certainly not one. If people are offended, tough! Get over it, or don’t read the book. I just think she was in an incredibly good position to introduce very, very little changes.

  • @ryanjones1938
    @ryanjones1938 Před 19 dny

    This goes too far. This isn't what Enid blyton wrote. It's no different than the new a.i's not able to paint the Nazi symbol, as though it doesn't exist. Yet it existed long before the nazis used it. You can't change history (unless you're China where nothing interesting happened in 1989)

    • @MrDeanjp32
      @MrDeanjp32 Před 18 dny

      What you mean this isn’t what Enid wrote?

  • @becaseiro1859
    @becaseiro1859 Před měsícem

    Bad story

  • @cutemochi4712
    @cutemochi4712 Před rokem +9

    Kate is such an inspiration, I could listen to her voice all day, she is the perfect person to do this! 🤍 She‘s so naturally beautiful too, everything about her is just perfect