ANSWERS

1) B. Madonna

In 2003, when Madonna launched her children’s book, she was asked how she felt to be described as the new Enid Blyton. She replied: ‘Who’s that? Are they any good?’

1A, 2D, 3B, 4C.

2) 3) FALSE.

ThAT was what Blyton herself claimed, adding: ‘I could not possibly write a single book if I were not happy with my family.’ however, her youngest daughter Imogen Smallwood said: ‘The truth is, Enid Blyton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind and without a trace of maternal instinct.’

4) B. Five Fall Out On Facebook.

All the other spoof titles — featuring Julian, George, Dick, Anne and dog Timmy — are in book shops. In Five Go Gluten Free, Anne brings her spiralizer to picnics and they enjoy gluten-free oat porridge sprinkled with acai berries and bee pollen.

5) All of them

BIG Ears was renamed Whitebeard in a £5 million animated series of noddy’s adventures in the u.S. in 1998 because of fears children with big ears might be bullied. Gilbert and the Golliwogs of Golly Town were dropped in the nineties. Schoolmistress Miss Rap, who spanked naughty children with a slipper, was ditched in favour of Miss Prim. And the phrases ‘gay times in the woods’ and ‘coming over all queer’ (when a character was not feeling well) have also been expunged.

6) TRUE

JOlly Good Food, by celebrity chef Allegra McEvedy, contains recipes inspired by The Famous Five, Malory Towers and The Folk Of The Faraway Tree.