YMMV / Enid Blyton

• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: St Clare's, called "Hanni and Nanni" in Germany, is vastly more popular there. There are several dozen ghostwritten sequels and interquels that fill in the gaps in Blyton's original stories, as she had only covered a few terms. There are also three movies, starring real life twins Jana and Sophia Münster.
  • Even more notable with Malory Towers. The German version is called Dolly and spans 18(!) books. After the end of the original series, Darrell - called Dolly in the German version - attends a school for young ladies located directly next to Malory Towers, marries a teacher after graduating, becomes a caretaker at her old school and gives birth to a little girl. Oh - and helps pupils in misery on a daily basis.
  • In France, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven, known there as Le Club des Cinq and Le Clan des Sept, were very popular Kid Detective series, as well as sworn rival series of French novel series Les Six Compagnons by Paul-Jacques Bonzon. All three series were best-sellers of the French collection Bibliothèque (Bibliothèque Rose, the aimed-at-younger-audiences section of the collection, for the Bylton series, and Bibliothèque Verte, the aimed-at-slightly-older-audiences section of the collection, for the Bonzon series).
    • They were subjected to an awful lot of Cultural Translation / Woolseyism though: everyone became French, and Brittany replaced Cornwall.
    • There are an additional 18 books written by Claude Voilier about Les Cinq. They have been translated into English. Unfortunately, while the original 21 novels showed the Five progressing through school years and ending up in their early 20s/late teens, Voilier makes them Not Allowed to Grow Up.
  • The Noddy series is huge in France, where it's known as Oui-Oui. The country got a lot of merchandise and the various incarnations of the show air multiple times a day. There was actually two musical live shows based on Noddy In Toyland exclusively shown in France with the first being "Oui-Oui et le cadeau Suprise" ("Noddy And The Surprise Gift") from 2009 (to celebrate the character's 60th Anniversary) complete with it's own album. The second was from 2013 called "Oui-Oui Et Le Grand Carnaval" ("Noddy And The Big Carnaval") which also gained an album in France. The most recent incarnation of the show, Noddy: Toyland Detective, was actually co-produced in France and aired there before other parts of the world due to Noddy's massive popularity there. Noddy is so big there that it has beaten home-grown productions like Babar and Asterix in polls with parent and toddler participants in France. The original books sell about 600,000 copies annually in that country.
• Heartwarming Moments: At the end of The Secret Island when Jack finds out that Captain and Mrs Arnold are alive and safe, brings them to the island and the Arnold family is reunited. Then Jack being adopted by Mr and Mrs Arnold.
• Values Dissonance: There remains a controversy over the use of golliwogs in the Noddy series (in more recent TV adaptations, these are usually replaced with generic goblin-type creatures). However, Blyton fans have argued that this was just a cultural thing, given that Blyton's books also contain plenty of positive portrayals of black people (e.g. Five Go To Smuggler's Top and the Mystery series). There's a black villain in the original version of The Island of Adventure, but he's portrayed as smarter than his white henchman.

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