I haven't read jacqueline wilsons faraway tree book, but I read in a review of it there's a part where moonface expects silky to do the washing up and the children tell him off for believing in senior stereotypes, but I own and have read all three of the original books and I'm am 99% percent certain their was never any part where moonface expected silky to clean up just because she was a girl, so including something like that in the new book, feels quite random and out of place, for anyone on here that's read the book, how does the scene actually go ?

Im not saying the original books were completely free of sexism, in the second book when Joe and Rick go to rescue saucepan man in the land of toys, joe tells moon face to look after Beth, franny and silky and even then he's their older brother so it's understandable he'd want them to be safe, just not because their girls.

Instead of addressing things that never happened in the original books ( moon face making silky clean his house for him and silky not be allowed to learn magic), it would have made more sense if instead they did a scene where when moonface and silky take the children up to a magical land at the top of the tree, moon face tells mia, birdy and silky to stay close to him and milo so they can look after them, which annoys mia and silky and they tell noon face that girls are capable of taking care of themselves, would anyone agree ?