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Big screen outing for Blyton classic

ENID Blyton’s children’s novel The Magic Faraway Tree is being adapted for the big screen.

Simon Farnaby, who penned the movie Paddington 2, is attached to write the film.

The book was part of Blyton’s Faraway Tree series, written between 1939 and 1951, of four novels, including The Enchanted Wood, The Folk Of The Faraway Tree and Up The Faraway Tree.

All the books in the series by the best-selling English writer, who died in 1968, have been optioned for development.

The project was first mooted in 2014 but is now being made with film production company StudioCanal, which is currently enjoying success with Paddington 2, as well as Sam Mendes’s company Neal Street Productions.