Correspondingly, when did Enid Blyton start writing books?
Blyton's first book, Child Whispers, a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. It was illustrated by a schoolfriend, Phyllis Chase, who collaborated on several of her early works.
Similarly, how many books did Enid Blyton write in her lifetime? Enid Blyton composed some 700 books between 1922, when she published her poetry collection Child Whispers, and her death in Hampstead on 28 November 1968, often rattling out 6,000 words a day at the typewriter.
One may also ask, what was Enid Blyton's first book?
Child Whispers
How did Enid Blyton start writing?
EARLY WORK AND FIRST NOVEL
Enid Blyton worked on a number of educational books in the 1920s-30s, among other things, and in 1926 she began writing and editing a fortnightly magazine, Sunny Stories for Little Folks. Before that she had written her manuscripts in longhand.
