I think there are significant differences of tone and style between Forest and Blyton/Brazil/etc. Forest, after all, actually has characters making knowing conversation about the school-story convention of 'playing bravely on on the sprained ankle'.
The invocation of the term 'jolly hockey sticks' suggests to me a degree of condescension about the entire genre - the kind of thing Arthur Marshall (http://www.ju90.co.uk/fin.htm) used to be famous for.
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Date: 2011-03-07 10:07 pm (UTC)The invocation of the term 'jolly hockey sticks' suggests to me a degree of condescension about the entire genre - the kind of thing Arthur Marshall (http://www.ju90.co.uk/fin.htm) used to be famous for.