Originally Posted by ultramarina
I have been told that Enid Blyton is also racist in some books--can anyone speak to this?I haven't read her.
Yes, true. Noddy is the best known series with that problem, but I believe I've heard that editions sold these days have been sanitised. I vaguely remember a girl called Carlotta in some series I used to read who was "gypsy" and portrayed in a way that today I expect I'd see as racist towards Romany people. But tbh I think really what's true is that Enid Blyton draws on every kind of stereotype - she doesn't use racial stereotypes more than other stereotypes! - but the racial ones are what's shocking today. Roll on the day when the gender/class/region/job stereotypes are equally shocking or perplexing...

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