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Noddy #20
Cheer up Little Noddy
With revised illustrations, Enid Blyton's "Noddy Library series" has been updated to reflect today's non-sexist and multi-cultural society. These publications tie in with a television series.
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1960
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Enid Blyton
5,214 books6,354 followersSee also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)
Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.
Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.
Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.
According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.
See also her pen name Mary Pollock
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February 27, 2018
Poor little Noddy has to withstand the dark clouds that seem to hover over him.
He's lovely yellow car's wrecked and the perpetrators are free. Noddy, being a happy-go-lucky kid is sad. An adjective that you do not associate with this Enid Blyton creation.
But so it is.
It is now up to the residents of Toyland to make their favorite person cheer up again and have him smile a rainbow smile.
If this is your first encounter with Noddy, don't worry. Get ready for a whole lot of feel good vibes in the rest of the books.
August 25, 2014
This is my first experience of Noddy. My son picked it out at the library, completely randomly, probably because of the trains on the front? I don't know. Then the next week he found a DVD, which he adored.
The story is quite intricate with an arc threading its way through the whole book. Each chapter could be a stand-alone story though, which is good, because we only got through a chapter or two at a time.
The illustrations are adorable, but perhaps a little small. I don't know if the original was a bigger format, but it hardly matters to my son.
I'm looking forward to reading more of Noddy.
The story is quite intricate with an arc threading its way through the whole book. Each chapter could be a stand-alone story though, which is good, because we only got through a chapter or two at a time.
The illustrations are adorable, but perhaps a little small. I don't know if the original was a bigger format, but it hardly matters to my son.
I'm looking forward to reading more of Noddy.
April 5, 2020
Noddy was very sad and he brought a donkey from saucepan man, that donkey belonged to the saucepan man.😁
November 10, 2021
Poor little Noddy’Such a brave little soul. I did it think the title is a bit misleading, as Noddy is quite cheerful throughro.
May 21, 2025
Une lecture doudou, d'un ami de jeunesse.
January 23, 2017
One of the weaker entries into the Noddy series. Noddy gets his car stolen and destroyed by two bears so he must work and pay for it himself. All the citizens offer gifts and help, and wonder why the bears don't have to work for it themselves since they were the ones who destroyed it (one ran away, the other is lazy). He works enough then pays to get the car repaired. The end.
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