The Faraway Tree

The Faraway Tree
A blue book with the gold words The Magic Faraway Tree at the top, with three children on a tree on the picture.

The Enchanted Wood
The Magic Faraway Tree
The Folk of the Faraway Tree
Up the Faraway Tree

AuthorEnid Blyton
Cover artistGeorgina Hargreaves
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy
PublisherNewnes
Published1939–51
No. of books4

The Faraway Tree is a series of popular novels for children by British author Enid Blyton. The titles in the series are The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951).

The stories take place in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the eponymous 'Faraway Tree'. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds and it is wide enough to contain small houses carved into its trunk. The wood and the tree are discovered by three children who move into a house nearby. They befriend many of the residents and have adventures in magical lands that visit the top of the tree.