Professor Plum Kills Playstation in the Bedroom with a Little Cheating

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Adventure, i tell my bored 10-year-old son who's nagging me to put the Sunday supplements down in favour of yet another game of Cluedo, can only happen to children in the absence of parents. To lend authority to this sweeping statement, I refer him to a great canon of English literature. Would James, I suggest, have ever gained access to a giant peach had his parents been around? No, if Roald Dahl hadn't killed them off in the first chapter, they'd have sliced the fruit up for James' tea long before it had had a chance to grow.

Would anyone be interested in Oliver Twist's life had he not been left to fend for himself on the streets of London? Harry Potter's entire destiny, meanwhile, relies on the murder of his parents by You Know Who while he is a babe in arms. And the whole Series of Unfortunate Events could only unfold when the loving parents were tragically dispatched by Lemony Snicket.

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Professor Plum Kills Playstation in the Bedroom with a Little Cheating

Enid Blyton may have been more tolerant of the older generation but show me one of her books...

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