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>>GavCo+(OP)
Rewriting stories for children to reflect the values and anxieties of contemporary culture has occurred forever.

For instance, see “The Family Shakespeare” by the Bowdlers. Interestingly, critics seemed to pan it for similar reasons to HN’s commentators, but the book sold well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Shakespeare

I’m considerably less dogmatic about this than I used to be. Enid Blyton was a staple of my childhood, but do I really have to explain to my daughter why golliwogs are offensive if I want to give her a copy of the Magic Faraway Tree?

>>rgmerk+yg1
It didn't take much to send up Blyton in The Comic Strip Presents - Five Go Mad in Dorset [1].

"That man looks foreign" is one of many exact quotes from any number of her series.

[1] https://youtu.be/NhGlet1j8EA?t=55