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Heike Nieder
Enid Blyton – for generations of children, this name is associated with reading nights under the covers, heavy book bags from the library or radio play afternoons in the sick bed. The fact that the works of the British author, who died in 1968, were already criticized as trivial and cliched during her lifetime did not harm her popularity. Now the Bocola publishing house is reissuing the adventure series – and advertising with the illustrations by Stuart Tresilian from the original English edition, published in 1944 by the Macmillan publishing house in London. In the first volume that has just been published, five of a total of 41 drawings, some of which were first published in Germany, show a black man with wide-open eyes, bulging lips and an ape-like profile. It’s about Joe, the villain in “Island of Adventure”.