Like a lot of Enid Blyton’s works, this book is intended to be not just a story but a treatise on morals, manners and doing the ‘right thing’. This is fine in itself?the Famous Five, Malory Towers, St Clare’s and the like all operate on the basis of their characters being decent, upright sorts?but Those Dreadful Children is one of the few Blyton books to emphasise religion as the way to do this. Pour moi, this marred the book a little. Still, only a little?this is still a Jolly Good Read.