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RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2015 CONTENTS About Enid Blyton ADVENTURE The Famous Five Classic Editions Standard Editions Short Stories Around the World French extensions German extensions Famous Five on the Case The Secret Seven Around the World Mystery Series Secret Series Family Adventures Riddle Series The Adventurous Four The Barney Mysteries MAGICAL The Faraway Tree & Enchanted World The Wishing Chair Amelia Jane SCHOOL DAYS Malory Towers The Naughtiest Girl St. Clares COLLECTIONS Brer Rabbit The O’Clock Tales The Circus Collection Chimney Corner Collection Magic Folk Collection Bedtime Stories Collections Gift Editions AND NOW FOR SOME AMAZING STATISTICS Enid Blyton published her first Enid Blyton is the book in 1922 2nd most borrowed and has been classic author in in print UK libraries ever since (PLR figures for 2012/2013) Global sales of over 500 million books – one of the Enid Blyton’s bestselling children’s books are still the authors ever UK’s Favourite Available in over Children’s Books 90 countries - (The Telegraph Enid Blyton is the 6th March 2014) most widely translated children’s author Every minute in the world an Enid Blyton book is sold in the UK (based on Nielsen TCM figures for 2013) Enid Blyton wrote over 800 stories averaging 13,000 Top 10 bestselling words a day children’s author in the UK with a value of £3.1m 13 million Enid Blyton was the (The Bookseller 25th January 2013 books distributed based on Nielsen TCM first author to by MCD in 2014 figures for 2012) trademark their signature ABOUT ENID BLYTON ‘I want to know you from the very beginning, and go with you all through your childhood till you are old enough to read adult books. I don’t want you to be friends with me at one age only, I want to keep in touch with you all through your childhood days’ Enid Blyton was born in Dulwich, in South-East London, in 1897. When she left school, she trained as and became a teacher. She continued to teach for five years until she married and had children. Enid Blyton had two daughters, Gillian and Imogen, with her first husband, whose name was Hugh Pollock. From a very early age Enid Blyton enjoyed making up stories. She said that she liked making up stories better than she liked doing anything else. She published her first book in 1922. It was called Child Whispers and it was a collection of poetry. She went on to write more than 800 stories and poems. A number of illustrators worked on Enid’s stories, perhaps most famously Eileen Soper, who illustrated The Famous Five. But Enid always carefully checked and approved the pictures in her books Enid Blyton died in 1968 but remains a publishing phenomenon – the greatest children’s writer of the 20th century. She has become one of the best-known and best-loved writers of children’s stories and many of us fondly remember reading her books as children. She is consistently voted a children’s favourite in author polls and even the RAF’s Red Arrows perform the Enid display sequence as homage to her and The Famous Five! ADVENTURE THE FAMOUS FIVE The Famous Five are among Enid Blyton’s best-loved creations and countless children have gone adventuring with them since the publication of Five on a Treasure Island in 1942, the first of twenty-one full-length adventures and numerous short stories. Armed with maps, torches, packets of sandwiches and a plentiful supply of ginger-beer, Julian, Dick, Anne, their tomboy cousin George (Georgina by rights) and Timmy the dog like nothing better than to spend their holidays hiking and biking, camping and exploring by themselves, invariably falling into adventure. Both classic and revised (sensitively updated to bring them into the 21st century) texts available. 40,000 words approx. UK sales average 100,000 a year. 1: Five on a Treasure Island The Famous Five Survival Guide 2: Five Go Adventuring Again 3: Five Run Away Together Adventure Game Book 1 4: Five Go To Smugglers Top Adventure Game Book 2 5: Five Go Off in a Caravan Adventure Game Book 3 6: Five on Kirrin Island Adventure Game Book 4 7: Five Go Off to Camp Adventure Game Book 5 8: Five Get Into Trouble Adventure Game Book 6 9: Five Fall Into Adventure 10: Five on a Hike Together 11: Five Have a Wonderful Time 12: Five Go Down to the Sea 13: Five Go to Mystery Moor 14: Five Have Plenty of Fun 15: Five on a Secret Trail 16: Five Go to Billycock Hill 17: Five Get Into a Fix 18: Five on Finniston Farm 19: Five Go to Demon’s Rocks 20: Five Have a Mystery to Solve 21: Five Are Together Again 22: Famous Five Have a Puzzling Time and Other Stories UK PUBLISHER: Hodder Children’s Books RIGHTS AVAILABLE: World RIGHTS SOLD IN: Benelux (Audio), Chinese (simplified), Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Vietnam. FILM, TV, MERCHANDISING, LICENSING: Enid Blyton Estate ADVENTURE THE FAMOUS FIVE In 2012 Hodder celebrated 70 years of The Famous Five by commissioning new covers from Britain’s best-loved children’s illustrators for the first five books in the series. These anniversary editions benefit The House of Illustration, the world’s first dedicated home for the art of illustration. 9781444908695 9781444908657 9781444908664 9781444908671 9781444908688 Quentin Blake Helen Oxenbury Emma Chichester-Clark Oliver Jeffers Chris Riddell And we’re still celebrating with these new reissues of books six to ten. 9781444924886 9781444924893 9781444924909 9781444924916 9781444924923 Shirley Hughes David Tazzyman Polly Dunbar Babette Cole Tony Ross 9780340970836 RIGHTS SOLD IN: 9781444918816 Spain, Germany, China. 2015 sees the launch of the third The Famous Five annual. ADVENTURE CLASSIC EDITIONS The Famous Five has been continuously in print since the original publication in the 1940s. These ‘classic’ editions feature the original Eileen Soper covers and illustrations, as well as the original text. 9780340681060 9780340681077 9780340681084 9780340681091 9780340681107 9780340681114 9780340681121 9780340681138 9780340681145 9780340681152 9780340681169 9780340681176 9780340681183 9780340681190 9780340681206 9780340681213 9780340681220 9780340681237 9780340681244 9780340681213 9780340681268 9781444910582 ADVENTURE STANDARD EDITIONS These ‘standard’ editions feature new, modern covers to appeal to a brand new generation of readers. The texts have been sensitively edited to bring them into the 21st century. 9780340931592 9780340931608 9780340931615 9780340931622 9780340931639 9780340931646 9780340931653 9780340931660 9780340931677 9780340931684 9780340931691 9780340931707 9780340931714 9780340931721 9780340931738 9780340931745 9780340931752 9780340931769 9780340931776 9780340931783 9780340931790 9780340932490 ADVENTURE SHORT STORIES Eight Famous Five short stories with Enid Blyton’s original text and contemporary design, illustrated in colour by Jamie Littler. 9781444916263 9781444916256 9781444916256 9781444916300 9781444916317 9781444916324 9781444916270 9781444916287 Famous Five Colour Reads FoFra Wmath hoFFceueoiiH WvsvmnlGa aee pFseTpe laHtileoipv Alnmt paeGryDe da gvL om aoCg eelaaodienh’ ysz svda Htery o e C HiP,O fano sAh Ftuflatltfu faadmhiz-‐ttrrsmThi ezeT saeielres soisdi nb,rnm ,fu T mootutgFsuohmool i lTkrveFAon-nyli ei e dCmLvtnvaooege etnthng ture adtnaooTdtno oht dtrh eh t eow heg fpeyua t lvaThbaairleohtnldf oeovgb k w eruthirmrnnaiayssdg.i nlDf-lbaleo ailpsdfcogtfu k wi iccafn fpoeise,n mu pdftgolha pl irehenna dyitt rshai tro nswemupg itsrh.eehh inntesei tycttd lhk ew oee et nsn . t SItotwh h waaeawtarl fseda- riydadu alwninrg’nketh ni mtwn.t tg Tahh tdheetnoee rwFmt,h nbiae vedtyche erae etu hmas eaceahis rit enfh wad ess a tttshry tae ertsee o ttteo .httwh eleayn m s,c tbopauusttil o dn3. q38,r ua3ticrteeda n dieonawr . nc othme roiand gto! t’ hs–ae Ii s dtt haD itinicok‘knH , I,a wcnuahdnri tc hrhhee ywya arau slal p UK PUBLISHER: Hodder Children’s Books RIGHTS AVAILABLE: World RIGHTS SOLD IN: Ireland, Norway, Spain (Castilian & Catalan), Wales FILM, TV, MERCHANDISING, LICENSING: Enid Blyton Estate