This is the Faraway Tree.Īgainst the elves' advice, the children climb the Faraway Tree. They chase the gnome and recover the papers, but the gnome himself escapes up a huge tree whose branches seem to reach into the clouds. They encounter a group of elves who have been robbed of important papers by a gnome. One day they go for a walk in the wood and discover it really is enchanted. In the first novel in the series, Jo, Bessie and Fanny (edited to Joe, Beth and Frannie in revised editions) move to live near a large forest, which the locals call 'The Enchanted Wood'. Wheeler (first editions), Rene Cloke, Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, and Georgina Hargreaves. Over the years, the Faraway Tree stories have been illustrated by various artists including Dorothy M. A picture-strip book, Up the Faraway Tree, was published in 1951. The first title of the main trilogy, The Enchanted Wood, was published in 1939, although the Faraway Tree and Moon-Face had already made a brief appearance in 1936 in The Yellow Fairy Book. They befriend many of the residents and have adventures in magical lands that visit the top of the tree. The wood and the tree are discovered by three children who move into a house nearby. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk.

The stories take place in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous 'Faraway Tree'. The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951). The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. Series of children's novels by Enid Blyton

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