'It's written as if they're all of a piece, but I'm simply following on and goodness knows what Enid Blyton would think about it. Mrs Wilson played with the passing of time to get around this, showing the parents drinking coffee in the morning when their children leave, and still at it when they get back. The children are free to adventure for days and nights without heading home to their parents, as also shown in the Famous Five and Secret Seven.īut the updated copy will be changed to reflect today's 'anxious' parents and their close watch over their youngsters. He says during this time the boys are allowed to do something more entertaining.īut in the new novel he will be immediately reprimanded and given a lesson on gender equality. Mia also says in the modern world girls are as clever as boys and sometimes cleverer. One of the characters Moon-Face asks Silky to help him with domestic tasks. Mrs Wilson's book has not been released, but she has admitted to some changes compared to the 1943 original. Jacqueline Wilson's new version of the adventure book will see a number of changes to make it appear more modern. The Tracy Beaker author will strip out what is today deemed sexism and replace references with lessons for youngsters.Ĭhildren reading her novel will now be subject to a gender equality lecture instead of learning how people behaved and thought in the past.

'So the magic world stays the same and if anybody reads this new book when it comes out I very much hope that they will go back to the others.

'I have three modern children going into the enchanted wood, up the tree, meeting Silky, Moon-Face etc and then going up and finding the different lands.

'I was asked to write another Far Away Tree story and I'm being very very faithful to the whole situation that Enid Blyton set up with this wonderfully original idea about a tree that reaches up to different lands. 'But they're still essentially exactly the same. 'I think the first three Far Away Tree books were quite wonderful and I mean they have been gently over the years one or two things that people would question have been edited out. A beloved novel by Enid Blyton (pictured with a puppet of Noddy) has been rewritten by Jacqueline Wilson to airbrush alleged sexist elements, reports sayĪsked on the Today programme if the book needed updating, Mrs Wilson said: 'I would agree with you in that I'm not actually updating it, I'm following on.

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