SuitabookThe Magical Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (Adventures of the Wishing-Chair / The Wishing-Chair Again)
Enid Blyton
- Reading
- Read it as two connected adventures, pausing after each unusual destination to ask what Mollie and Peter are trying to do, who needs help, and how the setting changes the situation.
- Themes
- Imagination and magical travel: Mollie and Peter use a Wishing-Chair that takes them to magical and unusual places, including a giant’s castle and a magician’s castle. The premise presents imaginative travel as the organising pleasure of the stories.
- Friendship and helping others: Mollie and Peter rescue Chinky the Pixie, while Chinky looks after the chair when the children are at boarding school. The events place companionship and helping within the plot, but the broader value the stories assign them is unclear.
- Familiarity and the unknown: The chair is kept in a playroom, but during holidays it grows wings and takes Mollie and Peter to odd places; Chinky looks after it while they are away. The contrast between home, boarding school and strange destinations is present, though its emotional or moral meaning is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Some children may want to discuss the peril implied by rescuing Chinky from a giant’s castle and the uncertainty of being carried to odd places. The intensity and outcomes remain unclear.