How long since you read an Enid Blyton 'Famous Five' story? Much of those 'ripping yarns' is the stuff of a distant time: bicycles with just three gears, lemonade and no phones. But the stories do time and time again show collaboration and enthusiastic team-work towards a specific goal winning the day and beating off the baddie. No bad lesson at all.
Here for Alice in Wonderland
Here for The Emperor's New Clothes
Here for Goldilocks and The Three Bears
And here for Little Red Riding Hood
Here for Hare & Tortoise