Researching children's novels

When I was very young I read and reread Enid Blyton. She was an amazing writer for children even though she apparantly loathed them. I lived on a farm and we had a couple of orchards and a large woodland area. She wrote a collection of books about a massive tree in the middle of a forest that was so big it reached beyond the cloud. The tree gree all sorts of different fruit on different days and an assortment of crazy funny characters lived in the tree. At the top of the tree beyond the clouds there were different lands every day. Such lands as the 'land of take what you want' where one can literally take what one wanted. Inside the tree there was a great big slide that the children slid down on the most comfy of pillows. Such characters as Moonface and Silky the Elf (?) illuminated the story. The first book was 'The Enchanted Wood' and was subsequently followed by 'The Magic Faraway Tree' and 'The Wishing Chair Adventures'. If I had them now I would still read them such is the child in me

I'm also reading through the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage.