Enid Blyton and the Famous Five Frozen in Time – an essay

The Famous Five are, certainly, famous. This long-suffering bunch of four kids and a dog have found a secret passage, been kidnapped, and discovered bands of smugglers virtually every school holiday since 1942. Plenty has been written about the quaint picnics and repetitive plots, but not so much I think on the subject I’m about

Reading The Wind in the Willows as an adult – not the simple idyllic tale it seems?

The classic children’s novel The Wind in the Willows has been on my reading list since before I could read. Finally, I got round to it this spring after university exams had finished. From the very beginning, with the character of Mole ditching his spring cleaning to go have some fun – all too relatable