It was really very satisfying to see that the publishers of Enid Blyton’s books have censored the text of The Famous Five and replaced it with wording that is more in keeping with the inclusive, egalitarian and non-judgmental nature of our times. For instance, they will remove ‘brown-skinned’ because it is an obvious racist slur and replace it with ‘suntanned’.
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