Horrors of horrors

Recently I have been rereading my old Enid Blyton books, so I was curious to see if they are still being sold, since my collection is not complete. I was thinking I might finish buying the collection if the price was reasonable enough. Sohs I walk along to MPH to have a look. After several minutes of going through highly commercialised new childrens' books ,many of them being movie tie ins(and incidentally seeing that Rob Patterson or whatever his name is guy from Twilight's photos splashed across books several times) I reach a rather small bookshelf carrying Enid bylton books. And what do I see?

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WTF...

What is that?????

That doesn't look like the Famous Five I grew up reading about. Those look like characters from the Bratz line of dolls.

Sohs I went online to read up about this horrible phenomena, and turns out that many other people are not very satisfied with the new covers either. Here are a couple of snapshots I took from online:
Phew...at least now I know they are the animated version of the series. And those are not the original Famous Five characters.They probably have a sound technical reason for making them look the way they do.

Nevermind, lets move on to the next famous Enid Blyton series-St Clare and Malory Towers. We all love the quaintness of the old English schoolgirl's daily life,secret midnight parties, old fashioned sports competitions and understanding teachers.
These are the kind of covers I have in my collection.

And what do the new covers look like?
Oh noes....

I feel like an important part of culture is being crushed by the modern wave of terrible tweens who watch too much MTV and want to grow up to be like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers.

Something has to be done.