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Enid Blyton Updates May 24, 2016 14:47:09 GMT Yorko and Frazz like this

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36369366

Yes, following the hilarious adult Ladybird books, Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' are to get an update.

See also Five Give Up the Booze, Five Go On A Strategy Away Day and Five Go Parenting.

I have found a couple of others, but I suspect they won't be included in this series. ohno1

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Enid Blyton Updates May 24, 2016 17:43:08 GMT Yorko, Nellie, and 2 more like this

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Post by Liv on May 24, 2016 17:43:08 GMT

I loved The Famous Five books. I've got 21 of them in the attic. Couldn't part with them.
One day, when I win the lottery, I'm going to have a replica Noddy car made I am!
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May 24, 2016 17:43:08 GMT Liv said:

I loved The Famous Five books. I've got 21 of them in the attic. Couldn't part with them.
One day, when I win the lottery, I'm going to have a replica Noddy car made I am!
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Enid Blyton Updates May 24, 2016 18:46:32 GMT

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My Enid Blyton books were my most prized possessions when I was young. My Mum bought me one of them every second week (usually). Mallory Towers, St Clares and the Famous Five were my favourites. I just wish I had kept them but when we emigrated to Oz they went walkabout.

Frazz Full Member Posts: 19,783	Enid Blyton Updates May 24, 2016 20:03:43 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Frazz on May 24, 2016 20:03:43 GMT I loved the "O'Clock Tales" 6 O'clock, 7 O'Clock etc. And The Secret Seven, do children still read them these days or are they deemed unsuitable?

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Enid Blyton Updates May 24, 2016 20:27:16 GMT

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May 24, 2016 20:03:43 GMT Frazz said:

And The Secret Seven, do children still read them these days or are they deemed unsuitable?

I think Secret Seven were OK, but there was one, The Little Black Doll possibly that would be frowned upon now.

It featured an ungrateful kid who didn't like his golliwog, with the immortal line, "I don't like your black face." ohno1

Also this one might not be in WH Smiths anymore.

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May 24, 2016 20:24:24 GMT @itchy said:

I have worked with children for a long time now and I have never seen any of them reading these books.

My two read them. I got the books out of the attic & explained that they were ... "Quaint" & read the first chapter to them. They were highly amused by Dick & Aunt Fanny, but we got over that. Both of them zipped through all 21 books and wanted a dog like Timmy.

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Enid Blyton Updates May 26, 2016 12:56:50 GMT

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The St Clares books were read and re-read many times over when I was young. (I read the Mallory Towers ones too but didn't like them so much.) They left me with a desperate desire to go to boarding school!

Famous Five and anything else she wrote did nothing for me. Some of those new titles sound interesting, though!

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