The Three Golliwogs

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This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. I do not like the updating of the text in modern reissues of Blyton's work (such as the Famous Five in jeans, etc. When the album was redrawn in 1946, Hergé removed several references to the fact that the Congo was at that time a Belgian colony. While The Little Black Doll was unquestionably racist even by the standards of its day it was the presence of golliwogs in Blyton’s wildly successful Noddy series that garnered the most attention. There’s no such thing as a swift fall from grace when a classic novel is found to have questionable content.

But Africans, African Americans and all those thought of as “Black” have been handed a raw deal, way past the portrayal in novels. Unfortunately, in modern times, the responsibility of raising your children to be respectful of others has been taken over by government.

However I did have the Dean version where the names had been changed to 'Waggie, Wiggie and Wollie'. Indeed, the constant threat of punishment hangs over most of the characters in her books for older children and it was a subject apparently close to the author’s heart.

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Likely created in the wake of the Black Death, when children were often abandoned, and many more abused. In the United States, it became popular in the form of children's literature, dolls, children's china and other toys, ladies' perfume, and jewellery. Now they have television to contend with, whether it’s ABC family or Disney, and a host of other stations which cast white teens as the leads and relegate minorities to fight it out for the sidekick spot. There is no stereotyping of the number of eyes they may have, their bodyshape, and the more vibrant their colour the better.