The Amelia Jane Collection

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In 1926 she accepted a position editing the children's magazine "Sunny Stories" as well as writing the column "Teachers World. When the poor creature sees itself thus attired there's a mad dash for freedom but the door's closed so the only place to run is up the chimney. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. For the first time published in one volume: Ten fantastic stories that will be new to children everywhere! Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

Naughty Amelia Jane! by Enid Blyton

In her autobiography Enid Blyton described Amelia Jane as having corkscrew hair, big loose limbs and a wicked face. Blyton's first full length children's book was published din 1938 and was titled "The Secret Island. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters.Before she can get stuck into cutting the golliwog's hair off so that he'll "look like a black Chinaman," a little justice is dispensed by the brownies who feel rather sorry for the afflicted toys. The only trouble is that she gets her kicks by playing tricks and annoying the other toys in various ways. According to Blyton's daughter Gillian, the main character was based on a large handmade doll given to her by her mother on her third birthday. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in.

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It's such a frustrating branding of naughtiness that I, in my current thoughts and idealism, wouldn't want to imprint on my young ones (when I have them, that is! Such a thought is actually espoused at the beginning of the next story but we all know it's pretty futile to entertain such an idea. She was a doll given to the author's elder daughter (Gillian) and it appears that Enid Blyton sometimes sat Amelia Jane on her knee at meal-times and manipulated her to such good effect that her daughters thought the doll was really acting up. It's a great read to read to specific children who need the reminder that the way that they choose to treat others has consequences both for good and for evil.Do you know, she once put a bee in a matchbox and handed it to the sailor doll when he wanted some matches to light his pipe!