Enid Blyton by Barbara Stoney

Author:Barbara Stoney
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Enid Blyton: The Biography
ISBN: 9780752469577
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-09-29T04:00:00+00:00

In a church magazine of the early ’fifties, she answered a reader’s question about the necessity of religious teaching in bringing up a child:

He can certainly be brought up without it – but not ‘properly’ … Religious teaching provides a moral backbone throughout life; it gives a child invincible weapons with which to fight any evils, any problems he meets …

In early editions of the Enid Blyton Magazine, she encouraged readers to follow a daily course of Bible readings, either through the International Bible Reading Association or the Scripture Union, and she put her name to special issues of Coronation and Christmas Bibles – stocks of which very quickly ran out. This apparent interest in the spiritual welfare of the young, together with her already popular books of prayer and Bible stories, resulted in further commissions from ecclesiastical journals and an invitation from a church in the Midlands to give an address at a special children’s service.

She made visits to juvenile courts, commenting afterwards on what she had seen and heard; wrote a booklet in story form, The Child who was Chosen, to help adoptive parents tell their children ‘how and why they were adopted’, and by the late ’fifties, there were few situations relating to children which she had not covered in one way or another through her writings or talks. Even her views on child murderers were expressed in a poem written during Government discussions over the abolition of capital punishment (see Appendix 1) and she let it be known in no uncertain terms in a Church of England Newspaper article in the autumn of 1950 how she felt about those who corrupt the young:

I want to take up the whip that Jesus once used when he drove out from the Temple the polluters of holiness and goodness. I want to whip out those who pollute the innocence and goodness in the hearts of children …

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