Enid Blyton - Mason Willey's Collectors' and Enthusiasts' Guide to First Editions
Education and text books

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Enid Blyton's impact on children's education, particularly in the 1940s and 1950s, was enormous. A Froebel trained teacher herself, her textbooks, readers and other educational material were in standard use almost everywhere. I well recall taking part in plays which only fairly recently did I discover were written by her, and like millions of others, I learned from her readers. In later years, when political correctness began to rear its ugly, (no apology made for the use of the word), head, she began to become reviled for all sorts of nonsensical reasons. Nevertheless, countless people of my generation and older owe a great debt of gratitude to Miss Blyton for introducing us to the magical world of literature.

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The Teachers' Treasury (3 vols. edited by E.B.)
     (pub. by Newnes)                                  1926
Later editions state first edition published in Sept. 1925
 
Modern Teaching in the Junior School (6 vols. ed. by E.B.)
     (pub. by Home Library Book Co.)                   1928
 
Modern Teaching in the Infant School (3 vols. ed. by E.B.)
     (pub. by Newnes)                                  1932
 
Let's Read*                                            1933
My First Reading Book*                                 1933
Read to Us*                                            1933
* Published by Birn Brothers
 
Treasure Trove Readers (junior series - 4 vols.,
     compiled by E.B.) (pub. by Wheaton)               1934
 
Enid Blyton Readers
     (series of twelve books pub. between 1942 and 1950
     by Macmillan)
 

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