Editing Enid Blyton (section)

===Revisions to later editions===
To address criticisms levelled at Blyton's work, some later editions have been altered to reflect more politically progressive attitudes towards issues such as race, gender, violence between young persons, the treatment of children by adults, and legal changes in Britain as to what is allowable for young children to do (e.g. purchasing fireworks) in the years since the stories were originally written; modern reprints of the Noddy series substitute teddy bears or goblins for [[golliwogs]], for instance.{{R|Geoghegan}} The golliwogs who steal Noddy's car and dump him naked in the Dark Wood in ''Here Comes Noddy Again'' are replaced in the 1986 revision by goblins, who strip Noddy only of his shoes and hat and return at the end of the story to apologise.{{Sfnp|Druce|1992|p=230|ps=none}}

''[[The Faraway Tree]]'''s Dame Slap, who made regular use of corporal punishment, was changed to Dame Snap, who no longer did so, and the names of Dick and Fanny in the same series (respective slang terms in some dialects for male and female genitals) were changed to Rick and Frannie.{{R|BradburyTelegraph}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.freerangekids.com/when-dick-and-fannie-became-rick-and-frannie-guest-post/ |title="When Dick and Fannie became Rick and Frannie" – Guest Post! |last= Browne |first=Kate |date=29 May 2012 |website=Free-Range Kids |access-date=30 July 2024}}</ref> Characters in the [[Malory Towers]] and [[St. Clare's (series)|St. Clare's]] series are no longer spanked or threatened with a spanking but are instead scolded. References to George's short hair making her look like a boy were removed in revisions to ''[[Five on a Hike Together]]'', reflecting the idea that girls need not have long hair to be considered feminine or normal,{{R|MorningHerald2012}} as was Anne's remark in ''The Famous Five'' that boys cannot wear pretty dresses or like girls' dolls.{{R|Spectator}} In ''[[The Adventurous Four]]'', the names of the young twin girls were updated from Jill and Mary to Pippa and Zoe, among changes prompting the Enid Blyton Society's organiser to argue that they were akin to having "a Virgin Express rushing past [[the Railway Children]] because the age of steam is over…. [W]e don't want to ruin the charm of something that was written in a particular setting."<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7591648.stm |title = The mystery of Enid Blyton's revival|date = 5 September 2008}}</ref>

In 2010, the publisher of the Famous Five series, [[Hodder & Stoughton|Hodder]], announced its intention to update the language used in the books, of which it sold more than half a million copies a year. The changes, which Hodder described as "subtle", mainly affect the dialogue rather than the narrative. For instance, "school tunic" becomes "uniform", "mother and father" and "mother and daddy" (this latter one used by young female characters and deemed sexist) become "mum and dad",{{R|Horn2010}} and "bathing" is replaced by "swimming" and "jersey" and "pullover" by "jumper".{{R|BradburyTelegraph}}{{R|Guardian Sept 2016}} Some commentators see the changes as necessary to encourage modern readers,{{R|Horn2010}} whereas others regard them as unnecessary and patronising.{{R|BradburyTelegraph}} In 2016, Hodder's parent company, [[Hachette (publisher)|Hachette]], announced that they would abandon the revisions, as readers' reaction showed they had not been a success.{{R|Guardian Sept 2016}}