In Competition No. 2979 you were invited to supply your contribution to a series of parodies of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five stories that have just been published which re–imagine the five as adults — or to give another children’s classic the same treatment.
Everyone loves a spoof, it seems, to judge by the phenomenal success of the chart–topping Ladybird Books for Grown Ups.
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