Enid Blyton's life and work - in pictures

Enid Blyton wrote more than 4,500 stories during a career which spanned five decades. Her Imperial typewriter is displayed alongside some of her diaries at the Seven Stories centre in Newcastle
Photograph: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003

Mr Galliano's Circus, first published in 1938, is the first of three novels Blyton wrote about a boy called Jimmy Brown, who discovers a talent for communicating with animals
Photograph: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003

The first draft of Five Have Plenty of Fun (1955) is labelled with this note, written when the typescript was submitted to Hodder & Stoughton, which explains how Enid Blyton typed her books 'straight out of [her] head'
Photograph: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003

Mr Tumpy and His Caravan was a picture book first published in 1949, which tells the story of a 'nice round little man' who goes to live with a pixie called Mr Spells in a walking caravan
Photograph: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003

This is the contents page from the typescript of an unpublished novel called Mr Tumpy’s Caravan which was initially confused with Mr Tumpy and his Caravan on its discovery in 2011
Photograph: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003

Mr Tumpy's adventures begin when he sees a 'blue and yellow caravan standing in a little dell of primroses all alone' Photograph: Hodder and Stoughton

This watercolour is a still life by Enid Blyton. It is thought to have been painted at Green Hedges, a house in Buckinghamshire where she lived from 1938
Photograph: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003