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Adventures of the Wishing Chair (2015)

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1741216664 (ISBN13: 9781741216660)
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My kids (4 & 5) just couldn't get enough of this book. I rationed it at a chapter a night, and they lost all interest in movies or cartoons if it meant no wishing chair - which was my plan all along! (Mwa-ha-ha-ha). My 5yo girl sobbed during one story, she was so involved, and sometimes my 4yo boy ducked under the covers in the scary bits. Every night they begged for wishing chair, and at the end they begged for just one more! I didn't quite read it word-for-word (I don't want my kids running out onto the playground saying, "How queer!") but was pretty faithful.Especially good was the format of a separate story per chapter, rather than being one long story broken up into chapters. This made it easy for little people to keep track of.So for getting kids back into books and away from screens, it worked a treat.However, I did find some of the content objectionable, and would love to hear any recommendations of something along these lines but more up to date.

This book is another timely classic from Enid Blyton.Set in the older days, 2 children Molly & Peter find a pixie in their garden who they allow to sleep in their play room (a room seperate to the house in the backyard). Along the way a chair comes to be in there. Before long this chair (sparatically) grows wings and the children discover that by sitting in the chair that they can command it to take them anywhere they choose.A whole lot of fun and adventure awaits anyone that reads this time

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The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair, by Enid Blyton, is a children's novel first published in 1937 in which two siblings, Mollie and Peter, acquire a special chair that occasionally grows wings on its legs, at which time it is able to fly anywhere with the children (and their pixie friend Chinky) aboard. Of course, they have silly adventures, mostly in the realms of fantasy creatures, but it's all good fun and a snappy read. I was a bit worried about potential racism in the book because of the era in which it was written, but thankfully there is none (the pixie's name has no anti-Asian associations, it's just the pixie's name). The edition that I found was published in England in 2005 and I'm not sure who the audience would be, as it's much too old-fashioned for today's children, but it's an entertaining little read despite that; mildly recommended.
—Alison C

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