A 'girl power' stage show, a BBC drama and new, more diverse short stories ... will Blyton's classic school series capture a new generation? A station in London: excited children gather for the "special train" to a remote boarding school that looks like a castle. Not the all-conquering school series of the present era, Harry Potter, but the opening chapter of Enid Blyton's Malory Towers books, set on the Cornish coas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM on July 5, 2019