Noddy ready for comeback | Books

18th November 2008

NODDY is set to make a comeback in a new book being penned to celebrate his 60th birthday.

The popular children's character was created by English author Enid Blyton in the late 1940s.

Now her granddaughter Sophie Smallwood is preparing to write a new adventure for Noddy and his Toytown friends.

Chorion, which owns the rights to Noddy, has commissioned the new book to mark 60 years since his first adventure was published.

The book will be illustrated by Robert Tyndall, who worked with Blyton in the 1950s, and is expected to be released in November next year.

The first Noddy book, Noddy Goes to Toytown, was published in 1949 and since then more than 200 million copies of books in the series have been sold worldwide.

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