NAOMI WILKINSON:Just reading one of my favourite stories, The Magic Faraway Tree. It's a book about three children, Joe, Beth and Franny, who take their cousin, Rick, to an enchanted wood near ...

Based on The Faraway Tree series of novels for children, The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly ... joined the cast in the role of Dame Snap, the story’s terrifying headmistress, one of Blyton ...