ABSTRACT
Enid Blyton, the most prolific of children's writers, is still popular with children today. She wrote about six hundred books, which were published from before the Second World War until her death in 1968 and they are very much in print today. However, it has been said that no other children's author has attracted so much criticism as Enid Blyton. She is seen to be sexist, racist and classist and teachers, librarians and parents alike have also expressed concern about the quality of her writing. The librarians’ attitudes have received most publicity, with allegations that her language is hackneyed and repetitive and her characters stereotypical. Because of this, Blyton's books were banned from various libraries in the 1960s and 1970s; Cedric Cullingford (1979) stated:
They are banned in many libraries, and in some countries banned altogether. Enid Blyton has been accused of being racialist, class-conscious and dominated by the ethics of materialism.
