I recently ordered and re-read Five Go Off in a Caravan in connection with a project I’m working on. It was a 2017 paperback edition with illustrations by Laura Ellen Anderson. Her children are round-eyed, shaggy haired and stick thin – the famous five for 21st century reader – and she’s clearly very good at her job. The trouble is that I’m part of the generation whose image of the Famous Five lies forever with Eileen Soper, who was Blyton’s original illustrator. So then I
