neon asked
Blyton's depictions of Golliwogs are, by contemporary standards, racially insensitive. An excerpt from The Three Golliwogs is illustrative: 'Once the three bold golliwogs, Golly, Woggie, and n***er, decided to go for a walk to Bumble-Bee Common. Golly wasn't quite ready so Woggie and n***er said they would start off without him, and Golly would catch them up as soon as he could. So off went Woogie and n***er, arm-in-arm, singing merrily their favourite song -- which, as you may guess, was Ten Little n***er Boys.' 'Ten Little n***ers' is the name of a children's poem, sometimes set to music, which celebrates the deaths of ten Black children, one-by-one. The Three Golliwogs was reprinted as recently as 1968, and it still contained the above passage.
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