Rewriting Blyton - PC gone mad

Having enjoyed The Faraway Tree as a child and remembering the feeling of pleasurable dread when the children found themselves in Dame Slap's land, imagine my horror when I picked up a new edition to find the old woman had been transformed into Dame Snap, and her scariest attribute was snapping at the children! Similarly there are new "improved" editions of the Famous Five. In Five Go Down to the Sea our editors have apparently decided that modern children would not understand what a steam locomotive is and substitute an electric train, which makes nonsense of the scene where Timmy the dog gets a cinder in his eye.

Oh gosh. I hate to think what they've done to The Secret Island.

Oh, I hate it when they re-write books this way. Honestly, they give kids NO credit at all. I shall hang on to all my old editions

That's sacrilege!

I was amused to see the cover of an Enid Blyton book in which a little girl is lying in bed and a rather strange-looking gentleman is standing by the bed and looking fondly down at her. It is titled "Mr Pinkwhistle Interferes"! A sign of a more innocent age?