Much more than mere child’s play

Neil Armstrong

WE ALL REMEMBER OUR FAvourite childhood authors. It was Enid Blyton for me. I spurned the Secret Seven and the Famous Five in favour of her chronicles of a more recherché investigative outfit called the Five Find-Outers, led by “Fatty” whose name would these days be unlikely to escape the attentions of the sensitivity reader. I was also a keen follower of Blyton’s “Secret” series, comprising The Secret Island, The Secret Mountain and so on, and her “Adventure” series, The Island of Adventure, The Mountain of Adventure and er … so on. Enid was very much of the if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it school of writing. When Gateshead Central Library had yielded up its last of her works, I moved on to Malcolm Saville and his “Lone Pine” series — another set of books…

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