Don't let's go too far," said Jo. "We had better wait till we know the paths a bit better before we go deep into the wood. Look about for a good place to sit down and have our sandwiches, girls." No," said Jo. "We might get lost. Let's find our way around before we go into big woods like this."

I'm really enjoying reading the enchanted wood I would like you to wright more books like that if you can because its a very good book that I would like to read more of that kind. can you please make more of the books some how. It's called the Enchanted Wood," said their father. "People don't go there if they can help it. It's funny to hear things like this nowadays, and I don't expect there is really anything very queer about the wood. But just be careful not to go too far into it, in case you get lost." Another repeated (again and again and again and again) 'gag' is where the Old Saucepan Man miss-hears every second thing said to him. "Can I have that?" "A rat you say? Where? I don't see a rat!" And on it goes. How we ... laughed. The Faraway Tree series were particular favourites of mine however, and I had been hankering to revisit them for some time. I knew I was taking the risk of marring my rose-tinted memories of this series but decided to proceed, regardless.How the children hoped the day would be fine! They woke early and jumped out of bed. They pulled their curtains and looked out. The sky was as blue as cornflowers. The sun shone between the trees, and the shadows lay long and dewy on the grass. The Enchanted Wood stood dark and mysterious behind their garden. The children tore after him. In between the trees they went, dodging here and there—and at last they saw the gnome leap up to the low branches of a great tree, and pull himself into the leaves. The children sank down at the bottom, out of breath. Suddenly Jo nudged Bessie and Fanny. He had seen something else. The girls saw it too. An ugly, gnome-like fellow was creeping up silently behind the meeting on the toadstools. None of the brownies saw him or heard him. The main characters are 3 siblings, 1 boy and 2 girls who move to the country side and uncover an enchanted forest. There is a magical tree inside the forest that can take them to magical worlds.

Dame Slap, who runs a school for bad pixies which, in some of the adventures, the friends accidentally land in. Her name has been updated in later revisions of the book to Dame Snap.

He will not come down until he wants to," said the biggest brownie. "That is the oldest and most magic tree in the world. It is the Faraway Tree." That must be the wood I've heard about this afternoon," said Father. "It has a strange name, children." Then he had an idea. "Listen," he said. "I know what we'll do. We'll climb the tree and just see what is at the top! We don't need to go there—we can just look. We'll wait till we have a whole day to ourselves, then we'll go." Their father set them to work in the over-grown garden after tea. Jo had to pull up the tough thistles and the two girls had to weed the untidy vegetable bed. They spoke to one another in joyful voices. It's almost as if they were really talking to one another," said Bessie. "Whispering secrets—real secrets, that we just can't understand."