Did you know that Uncle Quentin was an eco-pioneer? Luckily, Chris Smith’s New Famous Five has snappy prose and plot to match ...

Young people do not recognise golliwogs as racist symbols and are more likely to associate their exaggerated features with cosmetic surgery, new research has claimed ...

Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Crocodile Dundee and Mary Poppins were among the ... You spoke about the children books, but when ...

Last Sunday’s Island newspaper had my article titled Reading and the Classics. I continue that trend of thought and mention women authors who we of my generation read with such delight. Maybe I need ...

The winners of a competition dedicated to the memory of a Halifax girl who loved to read and write have been chosen.

Such a move could fuel the “cancel culture” that has forced edits or the shelving of popular children’s books by Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton and Dr Seuss because of concerns about racism ...

They cared for their own pet goat, ventured to the forest, and played in the snow. When I was seven, I decided "I will leave here and live in a place with snow and squirrels." I had to wait though; I ...

In addition, the collection contains letters from Enid Blyton to Muller about advertisement space in her magazine. “Thankyou very much for the amusing Cat Book which was forwarded to me.

Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Crocodile Dundee and Mary Poppins ... You spoke about the children books, but when you mentioned Crocodile Dundee – are you kidding me?” she told Seven’s Sunrise.

According to The Enid Blyton Society, she published a staggering 185 novels/novelettes, 292 'character' books (which contained 858 short stories), 1,008 short story series books (containing 8,183 ...