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The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair

By Enid Blyton

A classic fantasy story from the world’s best-loved children’s author, Enid Blyton, now with stunning new covers by Mark Beech. Be whisked away

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They did lots of adventures and were very creative. Good vocabulary and grammar

There was a flying a wishing chair. This is my kind of style!

very magical and makes me want to read the next chapter!

I love this book. I read some and my mum reads some. Mollie and Peter are great characters. I wish I had a wishing chair. Everyone should read this book.

I will recommend it to someone who likes adventures

Great, magic & fun!

I thought that this book was very eventful and surprising events happen in each chapter. Harriet or Mollie are my favourite characters. This book is fictional. The best moment was when they met the Snoogle. I recommend this book for people aged between 6 and 9.

I thought it was mysterious, magical,amazing and funny. I liked Molly and Binky the most. I liked Binky because funny and I liked Molly because she was really thoughtful. I would recommend this to anyone.

I liked all the characters and surprises.

Great adventure silliness

I thought that it was about a chair and if you grant a wish it comes true! But it isn't. I Iiked Binky because he was cheeky when they visited Witch Snippit's hous because he was cheeky using the magic paint. I would recommend this book to everyone! It's really cool and I am positive it will be a bestseller!

My favourite character is Mollie because she's the girlie character. There were loads of different adventures including places with weird characters and I liked this. I also liked Binky because he was an adorable pixie.

Mollie and Peter met a new friend that is a pixie called Binky. They have great adventures!

well actually this book is great i loved it espically when the wishing chair goes to rainbow i love chiny very much he is funny and jolly i would recommend this book to every one best book ever

I really like this series.

I loved this book, I liked trying to guess what was going to happen next.

A very adventurous book and I like to go these trips

I liked bink y most

Yes I would recommend this book

I really love the little naughty pixie who went on the bottom of the wishing chair and called out weird places for the wishing chair to go. He nearly got punished but the children saved him and took him home back to Brownie Mountain.

I would recommend this book to people who love adventure books.

An amazing book! My favourite part was when they found the chair in the store. 5/5.Would 100% recommend it!

I really wish I was in the story. It’s also funny because wings always grow on the chair and I like magic. It’s such a fun book. I liked Binky the Pixie the best. I would recommend it to anyone who loves magic because magic is the main part of the story.

My favourite character is Jack because he is brave and full of courage. I like the part when they meet wishler. I would definitely share it with my friends. I absolutely love the book because it’s full of adventure.

I really really love this book. It is magical and full of adventure. My favourite character is Binky the pixie. I also really liked the chair, it is extraordinary because it can fly. I would really recommend this book.

I loved the wishing chair characters Peter, Binky and Mollie. Each chapter was a different adventure. My favourite adventure was “The Lost Cat” with witch Kirri Kirri because it was the scariest part!

Enid Blyton's books are classics!

Lovely Story about two children, Peter and Mollie their adventure began when they went out to buy a present for their mother's birthday.

It was very good. What interested was that there was a wishing hair and it took them wherever they wanted to go. I would recommend to someone else.

I loved this book. I especially liked the short chapters and the part when they thought they were stuck in the castle forever! It was a very exciting book.

I liked the elf best because I like fantasy creatures. I would recommend this to others because I liked the style of writing.

I liked reading about the different places that Mollie, Peter and Binky visited.

I thought it was scary and nice. I loved Binky because he helped the children. I hated the Snoogle and the giants because they locked Binky up. I also enjoyed their trip to the Land of Dreams.

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Set off a magical adventure with the first book in Enid Blyton's classic fantasy series about a chair that can fly and grant wishes! When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing: a magical wishing-chair! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some wonderful adventures - to a giant's castle to rescue a new pixie friend, to the Land of Dreams, and even to a disappearing island! Who knows what might happen next? First published in 1937, this edition contains the classic text, except that the pixie character's name has been changed to Binky. Inside illustrations are by Rene Cloke, and the cover is by Mark Beech.

• Reading age 5 - 8 years
• Book 1 of 11 Wishing Chair
• Print length 176 pages
• Language English
• Grade level Kindergarten - 2
• Dimensions 13.08 x 1.27 x 19.69 cm
• Publisher Hodder Children's Books
• Publication date 3 September 2020
• ISBN-10 1444959484
• ISBN-13 978-1444959482
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Enid Blyton's books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author. She wrote over 700 books and about 2,000 short stories, including favourites such as The Famous Five, The Secret Seven , The Magic Faraway Tree , Malory Towers and Noddy . Born in London in 1897, Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and adored dogs, gardening and the countryside. She died in 1968 but remains one of the world's best-loved storytellers.

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder Children's Books (3 September 2020)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1444959484
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1444959482
• Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 - 8 years
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 162 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.08 x 1.27 x 19.69 cm
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ United Kingdom
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Enid blyton.

Enid Blyton is one of the most popular children's authors of all time. Her books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author.

Enid Blyton adored writing for children. She wrote over 700 books and about 2,000 short stories. The Famous Five books, now 75 years old, are her most popular. She is also the author of other favourites including The Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree, Malory Towers and Noddy.

Born in London in 1897, Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and loved dogs, gardening and the countryside. She was very knowledgeable about trees, flowers, birds and animals. Dorset - where some of the Famous Five's adventures are set - was a favourite place of hers too.

Enid Blyton's stories are read and loved by millions of children (and grown-ups) all over the world. Visit enidblyton.co.uk to discover more.

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The Wishing Chair Again reviewed by Laura

Out of the two Wishing Chair books I owned as a child, I always preferred the second – The Wishing Chair Again (published in 1950) – because the adventures were longer and seemed more interesting. It also introduced the character Winks the brownie, whose sheer naughtiness led them into some very unusual situations. So I was delighted to find this book in my husband’s childhood book collection and wrote this rather-long review (I just really enjoy this book!).

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It starts with Mollie and Peter coming home for the holidays and wondering where Chinky and the Wishing Chair are, as they can’t be found in their playroom at the bottom of the garden. Chinky has been looking after the chair while they’re at school and since he couldn’t get into the playroom because the door was locked, he had to keep hiding it in the garden all morning!

In the first book the initial adventure is quite short, but this time they end up on a much longer first adventure (starting in the second chapter) when Peter tells the chair to take them to “Goodness Knows Where” – apparently it’s a real place – but the chair first takes them along a moonpath and then to Chinky’s cousin Sleep-Alone.

From here, they go to consult Goodness and then find the chair has been stolen, so they have to spend a couple of chapters first getting home and then finding their chair in Pin Village. But life’s never that simple and after a goblin called Tricky gets to it first, it takes until the end of chapter six before they finally have their chair back.

This is, of course, only the first adventure of many, with the chair taking them to the Village of the Slipperies and having its wings cut off. The growing ointment they get to solve this problem soon leads to another when the children use it to make their toys and Chinky’s wand grow wings and they take off for Toyland. The children and Chinky set off after them and find that the toys have ended up at Mister Grim’s School for Bad Brownies!

This is where they meet Winks and Mister Grim, who appears to be the male version of Dame Slap from the Faraway Tree as he asks ridiculous questions – if he takes 52 hairs from his floor-length beard, how many will be left? – and deals out strokes with a stick for punishment. The stick is actually Chinky’s wand and the pixie soon devises a plan to get it back and use it to escape, so they can lead an army of toys to the school (led by a Golliwog – I’ve got one of the older versions that hasn’t been changed) to rescue the toys belonging to Mollie and Peter.

The children and Chinky rescue Winks at the same time and the brownie simply can’t stay out of trouble. There’s a visit to the Land of Goodies (one of my favourites from the Faraway Tree books), with delicious-sounding jam tart flowers, a ginger-beer stream and ice-cream growing on another plant in the cool valley. Winks first orders red pepper soup to be funny and then starts breaking and eating someone’s house, so he’s left behind and has to find his own way out of the chocolate cake prison.

The brownie is some help when Chinky and the chair disappear while the children are at the seaside – apart from dyeing his hands blue when they go to Mr Spells for help – but soon afterwards he steals a wand from Witch Wendle and turns Chinky into a puff of smoke. He in turn becomes a horrid smell as Chinky cast a spell with his own wand at the same time and the children have to go to Witch Wendle to find out how to get them back.

Witch Wendle says that the still smelly Winks really has to go back to school, but Mollie pleads for him to stay until she and Peter have to go back to boarding school. On their last day of holidays they make another attempt to get to the Land of Goodness Knows Where before deciding to land on Island of Surprises instead.

Like the last land at the end of each Faraway Tree book, the Island provides them with mostly nice surprises, like the car race and the ice-cream fountain. Winks tries to misbehave several times, but here the magic punishes him for being greedy or naughty and when he finally manages to annoy a witch, he’s sent back to Mister Grim then and there. Peter feels sorry for him and gives him the Tidbit Dish that he won in the car race, so he’ll get enough to eat at school – every time you lift the lid there’s a tidbit there, like a sausage or a bar of chocolate. Winks is sent off on a swan and the children and Chinky have to leave too, as the Island of Surprises always disappears at sunset.

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Once Mollie and Peter have discovered the Wishing-Chair, their lives are full of adventure. It takes them to all sorts of magical places, from the giant's castle where they rescue Chinky the Pixie, to the amazing party at Magician Greatheart's castle.

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Title : The Wishing Chair Again

Author : Enid Blyton

Type : Fiction

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Enid Blyton – The Wishing Chair Again

Mollie , Peter and Chinky the pixie return in this, the second book in Enid Blyton’s Wishing Chair series, in which the chair is stolen by a giant . The wings are cut off, and the children have to get it repaired before embarking on further adventures.

Somehow, it’s not as gripping as the first Wishing Chair novel, but it’s still a good bedtime read for young children – it certainly kept me entertained as a youngster. There are some new characters to meet too, from Twisty the giant to Winks , a naughty brownie who the children decide to rescue along the way.

Like all of Blyton’s books, the short stories are bite-sized and the perfect length for a quick bedtime story, and they hearken from a time when parents actually took the time to read to their children, rather than sitting them in front of a television , an Xbox , a Playstation or an iPad . Ah, how times have changed.

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The Wishing-Chair Collection: Three stories in one! (The Wishing-Chair Series) Paperback – January 1, 2010

• Print length 528 pages
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• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781405248488
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Enid Blyton is one of the most popular children's authors of all time. Her books have sold over 500 million copies and have been translated into other languages more often than any other children's author.

Enid Blyton adored writing for children. She wrote over 700 books and about 2,000 short stories. The Famous Five books, now 75 years old, are her most popular. She is also the author of other favourites including The Secret Seven, The Magic Faraway Tree, Malory Towers and Noddy.

Born in London in 1897, Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and loved dogs, gardening and the countryside. She was very knowledgeable about trees, flowers, birds and animals. Dorset - where some of the Famous Five's adventures are set - was a favourite place of hers too.

Enid Blyton's stories are read and loved by millions of children (and grown-ups) all over the world. Visit enidblyton.co.uk to discover more.

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Alma Powell, 86, Esteemed Military Spouse of a Revered Statesman, Dies

Her causes and quiet, elegant manner enhanced Colin Powell’s mystique, and she figured strongly in his decision not to run for president in 1996.

By Penelope Green

Alma Powell, an advocate for children, literacy and military families who was the quiet force alongside her husband, Colin L. Powell , the revered military commander, secretary of state and national security adviser, and who played a crucial role in his decision not to seek the presidency in 1996, died on Sunday in Alexandria, Va. She was 86.

Her son, Michael, confirmed the death, in a hospital, but did not specify a cause.

When he retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in September 1993, more than two years after the end of the Gulf War, Mr. Powell, who died in 2021 , was by all measures the country’s most popular political figure. A military hero and commander beloved by both Democrats and Republicans, he was often called the Black Eisenhower. As Washingtonian magazine once noted, Mr. Powell had “virtually no known enemies — in a town where everyone of consequence is disliked by someone else of consequence.”

Ms. Powell was the consummate military wife, an exemplar of resilience and discipline — Mr. Powell had served two tours in Vietnam at the start of their marriage — whose elegance and experience enhanced her husband’s mystique.

In Washington, the Powells were unicorns: a power couple who nonetheless disdained power.

“Neither of them wore their ranks on their shoulder,” Sally Quinn, the longtime Washington Post columnist, said in an interview. “I can’t think of anyone else in this town — ever — who had that kind of power and wielded it less. It just didn’t impress them.”

When Mr. Powell’s advisers and party members on both sides of the aisle clamored for him to run for president in the 1996 race, they held their breath and looked to Mrs. Powell. Her husband agonized for months, finally declaring a party affiliation as a Republican, albeit a moderate one. During that time the couple weathered blowback from a news article that Mrs. Powell suffered from depression and was taking medication for it — a report, which first appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and then Newsweek, that many felt was an underhanded attempt to derail Mr. Powell’s putative campaign.

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