Enid Blyton books have changed haven't they?
School tunic is now uniform, swotters are bookworms and Nobby's had his name changed to Ned. Political correctness gone mad? Not quite, try reading it out loud to your own child without sniggering at all the Dicks and Fannys. Seriously it's no mean feat.
But should we really update books that we read as children so that our own offspring can engage with them more readily or should we leave them as they are encouraging debate and maintaining history? Racist and offensive comments I can understand but language that roots a book in a different era, I'm not convinced it's necessary. There's certainly no shortage of contemporary fiction available if it's not to a child's taste.
What ho Dick! Time for lashings of ginger beer.
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