Fanny is the youngest, Bessie is next in age and Jo is their big brother. The main characters are Jo, Bessie and Fanny, three siblings. The stories have been illustrated by various artists including Dorothy Wheeler, Rene Cloke, Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone, and Georgina Hargreaves. A picture-strip book, Up the Faraway Tree, was published in 1951. The first book of the main trilogy, The Enchanted Wood, was published in 1939, although the Faraway Tree and Moon-Face had already made a brief appearance in 1936 in The Yellow Fairy Book.

Notable lands include the Land of Birthdays, the Land of Goodies, the Land of Take-What-You-Want, the Land of Do-As-You-Please, and the Land of Dame Slap. The children are free to come and go as they please, but if they fail to leave before the land they are in moves on they are trapped until that same land returns to the Faraway Tree.

The Faraway Tree is inhabited by fairies, and its topmost branches lead to ever-changing magical lands, where the children’s adventures take place. Jo, Bessie and Fanny, three siblings, discover the tree after their family moves into a house close to the wood. The tree is so tall that its topmost branches reach into the clouds, and it is wide enough to accommodate small houses carved into its trunk. The stories are set in an enchanted wood in which a gigantic magical tree grows – the titular Faraway Tree. The Faraway Tree is a series of four novels for children written by Enid Blyton English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.: The Enchanted Wood (1939), The Magic Faraway Tree (1943), The Folk of the Faraway Tree (1946) and Up the Faraway Tree (1951).

The faraway tree adventures