Us Brits still consider anything to do with Golliwog a collectors item.Ĭan u suggest me a book which was written bya british author.my fav and last book is fifth shades of grey u can She knew how to tap into a child's mind and know of their fantasies and dreams.

Brenda The best books for children ever.

I loved that book!! I may have to look for my book now too! 😊 So glad to see Malory Towers on the list too.

Janette Great article Neecey! I love Enid Blyton!! The Magic Faraway Tree is in my sons room handed down from his brother.

Neecey Yay! Let's start a new Enid Blyton appreciation society ^_^.

Kristy Fantastic article and brought back amazing memories :) Congrats to the author- u want to make me read this site again after some truly sexist articles, none of which were written by yourself.

That said, I did like The Caravan Family and The Family At Red Roofs. As a young black girl growing up in the 60's it was and still is deeply offensive to be called a 'Wog'. I'm a Brit but I don't find Golliwogs particularly endearing. If you read these stories you just have to compare them to the modern tales of school life like Saved by the Bell, The Inbetweeners and the movie Clueless. Clare’s, this time with a pair of twins as the main protagonists. The success of the Malory Towers series prompted Blyton to create another fictional boarding school – St. Yes the girls were another bunch of stereotypes, but they really did teach the values of friendship, sharing, helping others and having goals that benefited society, not just the individual.

I thought that boarding schools really were a place where sisterhoods were forged and the girls went on great adventures, excelled at team sports overcoming all close competitors and had plenty of spiffing midnight feasts (we were so much more naive than today’s teens). Malory Towers is a fictional boarding school in Cornwall and the heroine of the 6 stories is Darrell Rivers. I fell into the world created by Enid Blyton at Malory Towers. Alcott’s Little Women, heroines from TV series like Carrie’s War, Black Beauty and the like, and the images portrayed by Barbie, Sindy and Tressie dolls.

Our role models were Susan Coolidge’s Katy, Louisa M. We had absolutely nothing like The Hunger Games, the Twilight Series or anything that helped teens navigate the path of life. I know it’s probably very hard for you to imagine but when I was a teenager, young adult fiction was extremely limited.

Books like the faraway tree