The Magic Faraway Tree
Enid Blyton has been so unfashionable for so long that it must be time for a revival. The Magic Faraway Tree could be the start of it. An old-fashioned imaginative kids adventure, it’s full of the sort of wholesome derring-do that turned Blyton into the most translated children’s author ever. The presence of Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy and Rebecca Ferguson won’t do it any harm either. Though they all play second fiddle to the kids, which is how it so often is with Blyton. In series like The Famous Five, The Secret Seven or the Malory Towers books, it’s the kids who take centre stage, while their parents remain largely offstage doing adult … Read more