[1] The call for material for the first Enid Blyton Society Journal, edited by Tony Summerfield, met with a response which allowed a 32-page magazine to be issued in 1996.
The journal flourished, and now has full-colour covers with around ninety pages per issue becoming the norm.
Just as the journal flourished, so the 'Enid Blyton Day' is still going strong,[2] with over a hundred in attendance[3] at each event.
Speakers at the Day have included Tim Rice and his daughter Eva, Gyles Brandreth, Marcus Harris, Gary Russell, Mary Cadogan, Sheila Ray, David Rudd,[4] and Anne Digby.
Enid Blyton's daughters Gillian Baverstock[5] and Imogen Smallwood, and biographer Barbara Stoney,[6] became official patrons to the society in 2000 Citations Bibliography