‘Sensitive revisions’ of Enid Blyton books for modern children have not been the hit that publishers hoped for
Six years after Hachette updated the language in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books in an attempt to make them appeal more to modern children, the publisher has decided to abandon the idea because the new versions “didn’t work”.
In 2010, Hachette announced that it would be making “sensitive text revisions” to Blyton’s 21 Famous Five books. This followed market research that suggested children were no longer engaging with the tales about child detectives, due to their dated language.
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