Was just going to mention Swallows and Amazons
I lent my Enid Blyton Adventure series of books to my grandchildren but I think they found they found them a bit dated after reading Harry Potter etc. The PC crowd are screaming that the Enid Blyton books are racist and are far too middle class. Well what about Jane Austen and Thackeray. Books show the prevailing norms of the period in which they were written and censoring them and trying to make them PC, just makes no sense at all. You can’t rewrite history although some American politicians have a damned good try.
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Not just the PC crowd. When I first read the Famous Five and Adventure… series back in the 60’s the xenophobia seemed unpleasant even then. I just dug one out from the bookshelves and my 2024 self finds them even worse.
At the time, other authors (Richmal Crompton and Anthony Buckeridge, for example) also featured a wealthy middle-class milieu but without descending to racism.
Really sad that ‘The Book People’ went out of business. They were our go-to supplier of children’s fiction when ours were small, with Christmas and holidays always marked by the arrival of a parcel of books - and subsequently silence in the back of the car!
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Oh how I wish I could read whilst travelling in a car. Any attempt to do so makes me feel car sick almost immediately 
Been like it all my life sadly.
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My wife’s 8 year old niece too. Of course I’m not going to get sick…. until I have to pull over 
I’m a bit the same Gareth, have discovered that now I read on my phone if I’m on something like a motorway and I hold my phone up I can read for a while!
Crikey Tory, I had to go back to Gareth’s post to check as I had visions of you reading your phone while it was propped up above the steering wheel!
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All good, I sometimes let the hubby drive 
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