Reading order
The Faraway Tree reading order
2- 8.08.0 / 1061 ratings
- Score
- 3 volumes
- Volumes
- 1939–1946
- Published
- about 10 h
- Reading time
- Completed
- Status
- Fantasy
- Genre
Quick answer
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Publication order
3 volumes1939–1946Completed
- Enid Blyton’s much-loved children’s fantasies: three children move to the countryside and find, in the Enchanted Wood, the enormous Faraway Tree, home to Moon-Face, Silky the fairy and the deaf, clanking Saucepan Man, with a different magical land drifting over its top each time they climb it, some wonderful and some dangerous.
- The Magic Faraway Tree is the one with enough ratings, and it rates highly.
- Modern editions have updated some names.
- Read in order.
A plan for the whole series
3 volumes, 567 pages, about 10 hours. At 45 min a day that is 14 days.
Stages
This series fits in one stage. You finish around November 12, 2026.
- Stage 110 h14 daysby November 12, 2026
- The end of the series
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How this plan is calculated
The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →
Every volume in order
Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026
Frequently asked questions
Which The Faraway Tree book is the longest?
“The Enchanted Wood” is the longest at 192 pages; the shortest is “The Magic Faraway Tree” with 186 pages.
What should I read after The Faraway Tree?
Other series by Enid Blyton: The Adventure Series, The Famous Five, Malory Towers.
