Ben Gregor’s “The Magic Faraway Tree” comes with whimsy & nostalgia baked in. What keeps it from feeling like an old favorite dusted off for another generation is how sincerely it treats imagination as something worth holding on to. Technology, distraction, and plain old adulthood have all made that harder than it should be.
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Simon Farnaby (“Paddington 2,” “Wonka”) brings Enid Blyton’s children’s books into the present by putting a modern family at the center of them.
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