A new version of Enid Blyton’s The Magic Faraway Tree is coming soon.
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Jacqueline Wilson is reinventing a Enid Blyton’s classic, but can new authors do justice to old favourites?
Enid Blyton with two children who starred in the stage production of Noddy in Toyland.
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Enid Blyton’s books made for great plays, offering children an alternative to star-studded pantomimes for the first time.
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Anguished cries of ‘cancel culture’ rang out with news that six Dr Seuss books would be shelved. But canceling Dr Seuss is not possible, nor is it the best way to build diversity and understanding.
The new first form at Malory Towers is more diverse than Blyton’s original.
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It might seem like nostalgic escapism, but the show has a revisionist impulse at its heart.
Step this way …
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The late QC Jeremy Hutchinson only got away with it because the prosecution weren’t quicker on the uptake.
Outsmarted by a mouse: the scariest creature in the woods.
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Julia Donaldson’s tale of brains and brawn may only be 16 years old, but like Harry Potter it has joined the ranks of the all-time greats.
A disturbing pattern emerges of women being gorgeous on the outside, and evil on the inside.
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What do several early myths have in common? They suggest women must be ruled by men because they are disobedient and curious.