Tintin in the Congo was withdrawn. Quite an interesting case, in fact: they tried to reissue it for adult collectors, but it was still getting shelved in the children's section, so they pulled it again.
I don't know what the deal is with Enid Blyton's Golliwog books, but I'd be surprised if they were still available in original form.
The main difference here is the amount of publicity.
Children's book get revised and withdrawn all the time. You can't expect children to make allowances for the time a book was written, as you can with adults reading Whose Body? As far as I was concerned, it was Tom Baker in all those Jon Pertwee Doctor Who books I read.
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