Mrs Wilson said: 'I had such fun writing a brand-new Faraway Tree book. The U-turn meant 'dresses' returned to 'frocks' and 'mum and dad' changed back to 'mother and father'. But the adaptations in 2010 'didn't work' according to publishers, so they went back to the originals. To bring them more up to date the language was changed to make them more modern. Since then the books have continued to sell and be loved by children. Her work became increasingly divisive among critics, teachers and parents from the 1950s onwards because they were perceived to lack literary merit.īlyton's books have been criticised for being elitist, sexist, racist, xenophobic and at odds with the more liberal environment emerging in post-war Britain but they have continued to be best-sellers since her death in 1968. The Secret Seven, the Famous Five, the Faraway Tree, Malory Towers, and Noddy were the biggest sellers before and after her death in 1968. It also brought her great fame, and fortune, taking home £4million-a-year in today's money from sales.
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She worked as a nursery governess while writing while the children slept despite her mother warning her it was a 'waste of time and money'.īut by the time that she was in her twenties she was a full time writer and over the next 40-plus years her stories became beloved of children around the world. She has written modern interpretations of classics such as Five Children and It and The Railway Children.īlyton's books have sold more than 600 million copies and have been translated into almost 90 languages. This year's rewrite will also not be the first time Mrs Wilson has change other classic authors' works. It was updated in the 1990s to change the children's names from Dick and Fanny to Rick and Frannie. The new book, which comes out on May 26 and is called The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure, is the second time the book has been changed. 'What's next? Is Jacqueline Wilson going to rewrite Lord of the Flies and change Piggy's name to Percy to avoid fat-shaming?' 'They are of their time and teaching children that previous generations thought differently to them is a more valuable lesson than shoehorning in woke platitudes about gender equality.
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The Free Speech Union, which advocates freedom of speech, told MailOnline: 'Classic works of children's literature should not be rewritten to make them more politically correct. Mrs Wilson has reportedly tried to make the parents similar to today's, where they are anxious about what their youngsters are doing. The Magic Faraway Tree, which was first published in 1943, has also been edited to stamp out children adventuring on their own without supervision.
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