Noddy and the Aeroplanes

Noddy #24

by Enid Blyton

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.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Fantasy, Adventure

62 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

See 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

Reviews

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was extremely disappointed in this Noddy tale. It quite obviously wasn’t edited purposely, as the instructor catches the bus home and in the next sentence he’s up in the plane giving Noddy further lessons. Both the instructor and Big Ears teach Noddy how to fly the plane, tell him he is a great pilot and then give him another lesson and another lesson. It reads like a broken record. This story has so much potential and it was completely wasted. Not what I expected from an Enid Blyton book at all. I think this is actually the only Blyton book I’ve read that I didn’t like.

[Advait Parbat · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a good book.

[Mark]

With his car in utter ruin Noddy thinks about other forms of transportation to continue his work, and receives a plane in the meantime. He soon becomes an expert flier but tires of it, it not always wishing to land well, wreaking havoc. After singing four average songs the story comes to an end. Besides acts of physical comedy involving cars and bicycle accidents there's some actual physical violence in the book, such as when Tessie smacks the dog; I'm not sure how well this will mesh with audiences so I'm not sure if seeing this would be appropriate for the target audience, that being about five to six year olds.
Instead of moving to dance in the previous book the car moves and hiccups because it's sick. After getting in trouble with it he ditches the plane and gets the car back, a rather predictable ending to this particular book in the series.

[miss hfan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ga ada bosennya sama cerita anak2..
^^