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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20050716
Author:Joyce McMillan

WHEN I was a little smartypants of six or seven, my favourite book was a catchy Enid Blyton number called The Enchanted Wood. Like Edith Nesbit's great children's classic The Railway Children, it featured a family of three middle-class children living in reduced circumstances in a humble country cottage and often eating only bread and jam for tea. But the children didn't care, because across the meadow outside their house there was an enchanted wood. And in the middle of the wood, there stood the magic Faraway Tree, so large that its trunk was entirely inhabited by assorted fairies and elves, ...

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