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Children’s Books

Children’s Books

I have been thinking about the books I read as a child and what influenced me most.  I think what made me want to read was the Enid Blyton books.  She wrote for all ages of children from the very earl ...
Latchkey kids

Latchkey kids

Surely there was a lot of concern about “latchkey children” before the 1960s? Enid Blyton got a book out of it, “Six Bad Boys”, which I found nauseating – a woman who packed her kids off to boar ...