Enid Blyton's books have been voted, yet again, the best loved children's books of all time. Lucy Mangan explains why.Blyton's gold medal position in this table, along with the high preponderance of children's writers elsewhere on Costa's list (Roald Dahl took second place and JK Rowling third, while JRR Tolkien and Beatrix Potter made the top 10), is evidence that it is the books we read, wholeheartedly,...
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