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With its anachronistic fashions, mixed-race lead and synthy score, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Famous Five reboot has been met with the usual moaning by ‘the anti-woke’ brigade. But it also has a zippiness and thrill that was always absent from Enid Blyton’s deeply uncool source material, writes Adam White

A bit Indiana Jones, a bit Swallows and Amazons, a bit Dan Brown, this adaptation of the 1942 book is a gently subversive take on a classic. Don’t expect lashings of ginger beer

Director Nicolas Winding Refn adapts Enid Blyton’s best-selling series of adventure stories for the BBC. Read our guide for how to watch The Famous Five online free and from anywhere now.

Enid Blyton's classic children's novels ahave been newly adapted for the BBC. Here's how to watch "The Famous Five" online – and potentially for free.

Plus the latest Indiana Jones film, a reimagining of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five and two new Australian Christmas films with all the feels

The Nigerian writer on Enid Blyton’s mysteries, the power of Chinua Achebe and the pleasure of reading magazines

Mel Giedroyc and Martin Clunes Explore Britain by the Book sees the actors showcase Dorset’s literary heritage.

Reading is key to education success; I learned this when I was 9 and met a boy at the bus stop who asked if I read story books. We discovered authors like Enid Blyton, W.E. Jones, Anthony Buckeridge, Arthur Conan Doyle, R.K. Narayan, and P.G. Wodehouse. Reading these books helped…

This year, there has been some controversy about the rewriting of passages from authors such as Roald Dahl, Enid Blyton, Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie with the aim of removing potentially offensive material. Some publishers have also adopted the precautionary measure of adding content warnings and disclaimers to books by…

Young people sometimes lack ‘sense of history’ to read texts with dated language, argues bestselling author

However, the Tracy Beaker author said making changes to books for children can be justified.