Mr Pink-Whistle Interferes

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One of the stories I like least is 'Mr. Pink-Whistle Laughs' as the ending is weak, with a bully being scared to climb down a tree because there's a dog at the bottom. It's only a toy dog left there accidentally by another child, but he believes it to be real. I wasn't convinced by that even as a youngster! My First Picture Book of Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. 1975; as Hans Andersen Fairy Tales, London, Award, 1996. Fourth Holiday Book, illustrator Mary K. Lee and Eelco M. T. H. Van der Beek, cover Hilda Boswell [29] While the idea of trying to set things right is a noble cause (such as buying a new doll for a girl who had hers broken, or buying some good clothes for a poor family) seeking vengeance against bad people is probably not something that we should be encouraging children to do. While it is true that we should look after our pets by making sure they are fed and given clean places to live, I don't think stealing the bad owner's food, or messing up their bedrooms a good thing. Okay, in the story Mr Pink Whistle did teach these children a lesson, which they learnt, but that is not always the case. For instance there is the story about Wilfred. It is clear that he is a self-centred bully that lives by instilling fear among those around him. What Mr Pink Whistle can get away with, we can't, and while the best way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them and not let them scare us, we do have to be intelligent about the way we go about it. The Little Match Girl and other stories. London, Award, 1985; as Storyland Classics, London, Award, 1998.

The Green Goblin Book, republished in abridged form in 1951 as Feefo, Tuppeny and Jinks after the characters in the book [3] Youngs, Ian (22 February 2011). " 'Lost' Enid Blyton book unearthed". BBC Online . Retrieved 22 February 2011. Jinky the dog keeps losing his collar through no fault of his own, yet he has to endure being punished for it. A nasty boy is the culprit - he puts a bone on the footpath and when Jinky runs up to gnaw at it, the boy grabs him, yanks off his collar, and disappears. Unfortunately Jinky can speak only doggy language so he can't let on about it to his mistress but Mr. Pink-Whistle who happens to pass by can understand and he interprets "Ooooo, Ooooo, Yelp, Yelp" as "Oh, how sad I am. Oh, how unfair everything is!" Unfair! Well that's certainly within Mr. Pink-Whistle's province so the little man gets to work. The "Harry" in Chapter #10 is probably a different one from the "Harry" in Chapter #1 because the former has "golden curls" and I don't think there'd be two Harrys with golden curls in the same book, although it's open to speculation. The third "Harry" is a grown-up of course. Enid Blyton has used "Harry" in one or two of her other books ... in fact it could be three or four. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-11-08 13:07:03 Associated-names Kimber, Kevin Boxid IA40278908 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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For further information about Mr. Pink-Whistle there are some excellent articles in the Enid Blyton Society Journal that were available to the privileged fans who were subscribing when they appeared. The Spring 2006, and Spring/Summer 2009 editions might still be available if one cares to mount a search. Little Treasury of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, retold by Tina Rose. Worksop, Award, 1988. I wrote a 2-part article on Mr. Pink-Whistle for Enid Blyton Society Journals 38 and 39 (Spring and Summer 2009) so I'll use extracts from that article in my answers.

Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA18249 Openlibrary_edition Would you like to see Mr Pink-Whistle make a jump to other media - television, film, animated shorts, comic strips, toys and so on? If so, what would you like to see? I must admit, I would love to see a series of animated shorts based on the stories or maybe an animated television series that includes two stories per episode. That would be fun to watch if it was done well.

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Beauty and the Beast, and other tales, retold by Roger Lancelyn Green. Leicester, Edmund Ward, 1948. This book is a book written for babies, and me reading it as a grown-ass adult is going to result in some amount of eye-rolling, which is not really its fault because it's written for very young children.

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More Bible Stories, retold by Jane Carruth. London, Award, 1987; revised as More Bible Stories for Children, London, Award, 1995. Tales of Brave Adventure - 13 stories about Robin Hood, 14 stories about King Arthur (1st edition published by Dean & Sons Ltd.) Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc1-12-g88b4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000491 Openlibrary_edition I consider the Mr. Pink-Whistle stories as relevant today as they ever were, despite having been written in the 1940s-50s. For children to read about a little man who "goes about the world putting wrong things right" is inspiring as well as comforting. Pink-Whistle is motivated by a love of justice, feeling great compassion for anyone who is treated badly, and he realises that merely feeling sorry is not enough. As he says in 'The Little Secret Man', "It's no good being sorry about things if you don't do something to put them right!" How many campaigners for justice have been inspired by Enid Blyton, I wonder, or even specifically by Mr. Pink-Whistle? To empathise with Mr. Pink-Whistle is to aspire to make a difference in society. The idea of children aspiring to be like the little man is made explicit in some of the tales, including 'Mr. Pink-Whistle's Party' in which Merry declares: "I love you, Mr. Pink-Whistle. You go round the world putting wrong things right - and that's what I'm going to do too!" He replies, "You do it already," indicating that he recognises in her a kindred spirit. Merry sums up the Pink-Whistle stories when she says, "...my Mother says everyone ought to do something to help other people, and if we can't see something we've got to look for it."

Have you got a favourite Mr Pink-Whistle illustrator, in regard to both cover and internal illustrations? Who? Why do you like his/her work so much?

Mr. Pink-Whistle Interferes

Bookcovers". enidblyton.net. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 20 September 2015. The blurb that has Mr. Pink-Whistle going about the world may not necessarily be true. I think he confines himself more to the highways and byways of England but we can suppose, in the unlikely event that injustices became a little scarce in the Motherland, he could zoom off to some other country. According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.