Posted by Woll on April 22, 2013 at 06:20:52 user Woll.
You would think that the author of this article, given her literary credentials, would know better.
It includes the bizarre statement:
"Gene Kemp's award-winning The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler set in a village school and with a girl as its sparky heroine – a far cry from the boy-dominated, private school settings which lay behind Arthur Ransome's children, for example."
They (almost certainly) went to private schools, but none of the books are set in private schools, and they are far from "boy dominated"! Sounds as if the author of the article hasn't actually read them!
Now, which really famous series of books has "a girl as its sparky heroine", I can't quite remember?!