There have been attempts, yes, but the market is full of international authors like Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl and the popular Sweet Valley, R.L Stine, Famous Five, Hardy Boys etc. series.
Enid Blyton, the English writer of children's fiction, retold the stories for children.
He has also illustrated two sets of Royal Mail special stamps, to commemorate 100 years of the Rugby League and the centenary of the birth of children's author Enid Blyton.
She is estimated to have written about 800 books over 40 years, but is best known for her Noddy, The Famous Five, and The Secret Seven series.
The Five Find-Outers, also known as the Enid Blyton Mystery Series and Five Find-Outers and Dog, is a series of children's mystery books written by Enid Blyton and first published between 1943 and 1961.
The children's author, Enid Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 above a shop in Lordship Lane.
The Adventure Series by Enid Blyton, a prolific English children's author, is a series of eight children's novels.
The Secret Seven or "Secret Seven Society" are a fictional group of child detectives created by Enid Blyton.
In 1999, she took over the voice of Anne in the German radio play version of Enid Blyton's The Famous Five (German title: Fünf Freunde).
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From Christmas 1954, he produced a stage adaption of Enid Blyton's Noddy, Noddy in Toyland, with stage director André van Gyseghem at the large Stoll Theatre in Kingsway, London.
In 1957 Baverstock married Gillian Darrell Waters, elder daughter of British children's author Enid Blyton, at St James's Church, Piccadilly.
The children's list, which built on the strength of the Boy's Own Paper and Girl's Own Paper, has included well-known authors such as Enid Blyton, W.E. Johns, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Naughtiest Girl Helps a Friend is the second of Anne Digby's continuation of the "The Naughtiest Girl" series (originally by Enid Blyton), and the sixth book about Elizabeth Allen, the "Naughtiest Girl" of the title.
The Naughtiest Girl Keeps a Secret (1999) is the first of a continuation of Enid Blyton's The Naughtiest Girl series by Anne Digby.
Famous fictional tomboys include the character of "George" (Georgina) in Enid Blyton's series The Famous Five, said by the author to be modeled on herself; the character of Nancy Drew in the mystery fiction series; Scout Finch in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird and Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games
Collins's Armada Books imprint also published similar series, such as the Three Investigators, alongside such British stalwarts as Biggles, Billy Bunter, and Paddington Bear, and such well-loved authors as Enid Blyton, Malcolm Saville, Diana Pullein-Thompson.
Since 1994, Thompson has created and produced several television series and movies, including The Enid Blyton Adventure Series, The Enid Blyton Secret Series, The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (starring Richard Thomas), Return to Treasure Island, The Legend of William Tell (created by Thompson), William Shatner's A Twist in the Tale (also created by Thompson).
Sunday Tribune reviewer Pat Nugent compared it to Enid Blyton's The Faraway Tree series, remarked on "a host of kinks and clumsy moments that could have been fixed with relative ease", but said there was "a distinct possibility Gately's career as a children's author would have outpaced his status as a popstar".