Big-Eyes the Enchanter and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of sixteen short stories titled Jinky and the Jumping Frog, The Day the Princess Came, The Ugly Old Toad, Tommy's White Duck, Beware of the Bull!, The Tale of Jig and Jog, The Naughty Sailor Doll, Trit-Trot the Pony, He Didn't Believe in Fairies, Big-Eyes the Enchanter, The Little Sugar-Mouse, The Dog Who Would Go Digging, Sly the Squirrel Gets a Shock, How John Got His Ducklings, Goldie and the Water Sprite and Hey There, Come Back!
How John Got His Ducklings is about a little boy named John who lives on a farm which he likes very much. John likes baby animals but his father would not let him keep any as pets because John was too young to look after the baby animals properly. John was happy to help his father to feed the baby animals but he still longed to have one of his own. John is finally rewarded for his patience when he gets baby ducklings to keep as pets.
Hey, There, Come Back! is about a naughty goblin named Ho-Ho who lives in Birch-Tree village and makes a lot of mischief. He would always tease Dame Snappy’s cat that slept under the hedge and give it a nasty shock. One day, Dame Snappy who is fed up with Ho-Ho makes a firm decision to punish him because she is not going to tolerate Ho-Ho’s nonsense any longer.
Dame Snappy sets a trap for Ho-Ho the next time he comes to tease her cat, and warns him that she will cast a spell on him which would turn him into a thistle that she would throw into the field for the donkey to eat. The thistle spell sends the naughty goblin Ho-Ho running to the Medicine Gnome where he learns a bitter lesson and behaves better in the future.
Reviewed by Hannah William