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In the tree, leaving her job as a baker in Dame Slap's land. Jo, Bessie, and Fanny take her to the lands at the top of the tree andĬonnie gets a few surprises! The Saucepan Man's mother decides to live When the Angry Pixie throws ink at her or when Dame Washalot soaks her. At first Connie refuses toīelieve in the Faraway Tree or the magical folk who live in it, even

Interested at first but later on he gets interested, and into mischief.Ĭonnie, a mischievous girl, comes to enjoy a few days with theĬhildren, while her mother, Lizzie, is sick. Secret adventures in the lands of the magic Faraway Tree. Jo, Bessie and Fanny's cousin Dick comes to stay and he joins the Is The Land of Birthdays, where the brownies and the inhabitants of theįaraway Tree celebrate Bessie's Birthday. They give some cake to two rabbits, and the rabbits dig a hole for The first land the three children visit is The Roundabout Land, where Land of Take-What-You-Want and the Land of Do-As-You-Please.

The Land of Dame Slap, an aggressive school teacher – and sometimesįantastically enjoyable, notably the Land of Birthdays, Land of Goodies, The lands at the top are sometimes extremely unpleasant – for example The children are free to come and go, but they must leaveīefore the land moves on or they will be stuck there until the land This land is different on each visit,īecause each place moves on from the top of the tree to make way for a At the very top of the tree they discover a ladder which They befriend some of these creatures, in particular Moon-faceĪnd Silky. Inhabited by different magical creatures, including Moon-Face, Silky theįairy, The Saucepan Man, Dame Washalot, Mr. When the children climb the Faraway Tree they discover it is One day, they go for a walk in the wood and discoverĪn enormous tree whose branches seem to reach into the clouds. In the first novel in the series, Jo, Bessie and Fanny move to live

Over the years, the Faraway Tree stories haveīeen illustrated by various artists including Dorothy Wheeler, ReneĬloke, Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, and Georgina Hargreaves. A picture-strip book, Up the Faraway Tree, The first title of the main trilogy, The Enchanted Wood, was published in 1939, although the Faraway Tree and Moon-Face had already made a brief appearance in 1936 in The Yellow Fairy Book.