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- ↑ "Jigsaws:Enid Blyton:General". Green Meadow Books. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Chronology". The Enid Blyton Society. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "BeStime Enid Blyton Noddy Jigsaw Boxed 1960". Thetoycabin.com. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ "Giant Tiddley Winks Game". March House Books. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ↑ Blyton, Enid (8 August 2013). Secret Seven: 9: Secret Seven Mystery. Hachette Children's Books. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-84456-943-4.
- ↑ "Department of Trade and Industry". The London Gazette . No. 45973. 10 May 1973. p. 5859.
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