Re: E. Nesbit (was Arthur Ransome isn't loved?)


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Posted by Mike Field on August 28, 2008 at 23:04:54 user mikefield.

In Reply to: E. Nesbit (was Arthur Ransome isn't loved?) posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 27, 2008 at 21:09:33:

Andrew, I think if you read that again you'll find that John was comparing Nesbit favourably with Ransome, but Blyton unfavourably with him. (In other words, that Nesbit was far ahead of Blyton, not to be coupled with her.)

Blyton's stuff is all innocuous, and a good deal of it is enjoyable for up-to-about-twelve-year-olds, but I was horrified to find that all her books weren banned from Victorian (the State of) schools a few years ago on the grounds that they weren't "educational."

If we were allowed to read books only for their educational value, what a sad world we would inhabit.

I'm glad to say that saner minds have since prevailed and that the decision has been reversed.


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