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Jim, Korkis (2012). Who's afraid of the Song of the South?: and other forbidden Disney stories. Norman, Floyd. Orlando, Fla.: Theme Park Press. ISBN 978-0984341559. OCLC 823179800. I shut my eyes for a few minutes, with my portable typewriter on my knee– I make my mind a blank and wait– and then, as clearly as I would see real children, my characters stand before me in my mind's eye... The first sentence comes straight into my mind, I don't have to think of it– I don't have to think of anything. [68] Her love of tennis included playing naked, with nude tennis "a common practice in those days among the more louche members of the middle classes". [103] [104] Harris compiled six volumes of Uncle Remus stories between 1881 and 1907; a further three books were published posthumously, following his death in 1908. [ citation needed] In 1984, American composer Van Dyke Parks produced a children's album, Jump!, based on the Br'er Rabbit tales.

Capitalising on her success, with a loyal and ever-growing readership, [15] Blyton produced a new edition of many of her series such as the Famous Five, the Five Find-Outers and St. Clare's every year in addition to many other novels, short stories and books. In 1946 Blyton launched the first in the Malory Towers series of six books based around the schoolgirl Darrell Rivers, First Term at Malory Towers, which became extremely popular, particularly with girls. [45] Peak output: 1949–1959 [ edit ] Brer Rabbit Tales (1991), a 47-minute television film written and directed by Al Guest and Jean Mathieson for Emerald City Productions. Storr, Virgil Henry. "B’ Rabby as a 'True-True Bahamian': Rabbyism as Bahamian Ethos and Worldview in the Bahamas. Folk Tradition and the Works of Strachan and Glinton-Meicholas (January 1, 2009)". In: Journal of Caribbean Literatures. Vol. 6, No. 1, pp.121–142, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1711268 Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads with Sketches of Negro Character (1892), containing 11 Brer Rabbit stories. Brer Rabbit and Ananse Stories from Africa (article) by Peter E Adotey Addo on AuthorsDen". Authorsden.com. Archived from the original on October 24, 2004 . Retrieved July 3, 2010.Renee Zellweger as Beatrix Potter in the 2006 biopic Miss Potter. Photograph: Momentum Pictures/Sportsphoto/Allstar In 2020, Malory Towers was adapted as a 13 part TV series for the BBC. It is made partly in Toronto and partly in the UK in association with Canada's Family Channel. The series went to air in the UK from April 2020 and has been renewed for three more series. [171] Papers [ edit ] Fast forward 10 or so years and I'm in Disney World, standing in front of Splash Mountain. This is like the third time I'd been there in a short space of time, and this time I'm feeling confident. I'm going on Splash Mountain, hey it's a Disney ride. Disney makes rides for people like me, fun rides that are not that scary. My sister (also traumatised by Thorpe park) says it's not so bad. I get on and see that it's themed to Brer Rabbit (you see the connection to this story now right?). Fuenf Freunde", Festival Focus, archived from the original on 12 March 2014 , retrieved 11 March 2014 No single author has caused more controversy among librarians, literary critics, teachers, and other educationalists and parents during the last thirty years, than Enid Blyton. How is it that the books of this tremendously popular writer for children should have given rise to accusations of censorship against librarians in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom?" [132]

a b c Jenkins, Garry (15 November 2009). "Why Enid Blyton's Greatest Creation was Herself". The Telegraph . Retrieved 22 January 2013.Brasch, Walter M. (2000). Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus and the "Cornfield Journalist": The Tale of Joel Chandler Harris. Mercer University Press. p.275. Enid Blyton's Jolly Story Book (List of Contents)". The Enid Blyton Society . Retrieved 15 January 2022. Books: Hurrah! the Sun Never Sets on Enid Blyton". The Independent on Sunday. 18 July 2004. Archived from the original on 28 March 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2014. The Enchanted Lands", Genome Project: Radio Times 1923–2009, no.3847, BBC, 23 October 1997, p.88 , retrieved 25 February 2018 Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943. She changed the surname of her daughters to Darrell Waters [102] and publicly embraced her new role as a happily married and devoted doctor's wife. [7] After discovering she was pregnant in the spring of 1945, Blyton miscarried five months later, following a fall from a ladder. The baby would have been Darrell Waters's first child and the son for which they both longed. [4]

An Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit newspaper strip ran from October 14, 1946 through December 31, 1972. [23] Edwards, Charles Lincoln. Bahama Songs And Stories. Boston and New York: Pub. by Houghton, Mifflin and company; [etc., etc.], 1895. (Bahaman stories about B' Rabby) Copies of Harris’s Brer Rabbit folktale collections, bearing her father’s bookplate, were found at Potter’s home in the Lake District after she died in 1943.Brer Rabbit spends his days trying to avoid getting eaten by the predator animals (most notably Brer Fox and Brer Wolf) and constantly outwits them through a series of comical hijinks.

Hensher, Philip (26 December 2006), "The Fatal Childhood Addiction to Enid Blyton", The Independent, archived from the original on 28 March 2014 , retrieved 28 March 2014 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ray, Sheila (2004), "Blyton, Enid Mary (1897–1968)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.), Oxford University Press, doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/31939 , retrieved 19 June 2008 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) An Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit newspaper Sundays-only strip ( King Features Syndicate) ran from October 14, 1945, through December 31, 1972, as an offshoot of the Disney comics strip Silly Symphony. [7] Films and TV [ edit ]Dow, James (25 January 2002), "Toytown to Tinseltown: Noddy film on the cards", The Scotsman, archived from the original on 8 July 2014 , retrieved 28 March 2014