Colm O'Regan: Enid Blyton may be outdated, but my kids are into the adventure

It’s the idyllic countryside, barrelling out the door to go adventuring, the wearing of ragged old shorts and patched up jumpers, placid horses, secret passageways in wood panelling, and swimming in clean rivers. 

English children's writer Enid Blyton 1897 - 1968) writing in the garden of her home in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, 1949. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Enid Blyton – or Gnid Blitten as I used to pronounce it when I couldn’t make out the cursive. 

The famous signature that’s on the front of about 600 different books is back on a couple of charity shop Famous Five books that are in the house.