RICHARD Madeley has today criticised branding Enid
Blyton 'homophobic', 'racist' and 'antifeminist' following the news the author has been snubbed for a commemorative coin.
ENID
Blyton was denied a commemorative coin by the Royal Mint which considered her a "racist homophobe", says a report.
Children's writer Enid
Blyton said the rare sparrowlike bird's call sounds like "A little bit of bread and no cheese".
The Honda Civic Type-R had been worked on for more than a year by College motorsport students and the team was eager to see how it would perform at the first testing day of the season at
Blyton Park in Lincolnshire - ahead of the BTRDA Clubman Rally Cross first round in March at the same track.
THE Mystery Of The Skull marks a return to the world of Enid
Blyton's much-loved Secret Seven series, and the first time ever that a new author has taken on the mantle.
MYSTERY OF THE SKULL by Pamela Butchart, Hodder Children's Books, PS6.99 (ebook PS3.49) HHHH H THE Mystery Of The Skull marks a return to the world of Enid
Blyton's much-loved Secret Seven series, and the first time ever that a new author has taken on the mantle.
Famous 1950s children's author Enid
Blyton has been criticised in recent times for writing naive stories, but it hasn't stopped her books selling 600 million copies so far, most of which are still in print today.
Enid
Blyton Despite her success,
Blyton never strayed too far from her childhood neighbourhood of Beckenham, now a Kentish suburban outpost of London.
I came across your article on Enid
Blyton which really impressed me (The power of imagination: How Enid
Blyton changed my life, KT Nov 3).
So begins Enid
Blyton's first Famous Five adventure, Five On A Treasure Island, which was published 75 years ago this September and is set in
Blyton's adopted home, Dorset's Isle of Purbeck.
Purbeck's not really an isle, more a peninsula, surrounded by water on three sides, with the island-dotted Poole Harbour to the north, the seaside town of Swanage (where
Blyton used to stay in the The Grand Hotel in the 1950s) to the east, and the secluded coves and bays of Dorset's Jurassic Coast to the south.