The Famous Five are back – tweaked to suit modern sensibilities
Did you know that Uncle Quentin was an eco-pioneer? Luckily, Chris Smith’s New Famous Five has snappy prose and plot to match ...
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Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree to be made into film
The tales follow a group of children's adventures at the top of a tree in an enchanted forest. Blyton wrote the Faraway Tree books between 1939 and 1951. The characters in the stories included ...
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Enid Blyton
In 2008, Enid Blyton was voted the UK's best loved writer, beating JK Rowling, Austen and even Shakespeare. Yet, although characters like Noddy and the Famous Five still have devoted fans ...
Children prefer Dahl and Blyton unsanitised, says McCall Smith
Sir Alexander McCall Smith has criticised the “censoring” of children’s books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, ...