[Tennessee Nana]

Hey they changed The Bobbsey Twins a few years ago ...

No more Honey Lamb etc

I read many of those books as a child in the 50’s and theyre not the same now ...

I bet Enid Bryant’s Famous Five and Secret Seven are different to now ...

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I sold a child “The Island of Adventure” by Enid Blyton. The cover was badly torn so it was not worth much but he wanted a book with a bird in it. His teacher, (not his parents his teacher) came in and subjected me to a screaming rant about how I sold an “inappropriate book” to a child.

I finally got her tell me what book and then asked her what was wrong with it. Apparently it is inappropriate for a book to have a black male (Jo-Jo) as one of the villains, apparently the other villains were just fine as they were British. I told her to swish her little tail out the door because his parents thought it was an ok book and that was what counted.

Later his mom told me it was one of the first books he had read and enjoyed and she wanted me to find the rest of the series.