Noddy (character) DreamWorks Animation which now a subsidiary of NBCUniversal) in 2012. On 17 November 2008, it was announced that Enid Blyton's granddaughter, Sophie Smallwood, was to write a new Noddy book to celebrate the character's 60th birthday. "Noddy and the Farmyard Muddle" (2009) was illustrated by Robert Tyndall, who has drawn the characters in the Noddy books since 1953, ever since the death of the original illustrator, Harmsen van der Beek. In the 1990s and early 2000s TV series adaptation, as well as a new series of books, Noddy has been updated, with the original Golliwog characters replaced by other sorts
Children on Their Birthdays (short story) Birthdays" was made into an American independent film by director Mark Medoff. Children on Their Birthdays (short story) "Children on Their Birthdays" is a short story by Truman Capote, published serially in the late 1940s and appearing in "A Tree of Night and Other Stories" in 1949; it is noted as one of his better quality early short stories. Capote wrote "Children on Their Birthdays" in the Summer of 1948 while traveling in Europe, from London to Paris, and on to Venice, where he worked alongside Donald Windham. The story is set in rural Alabama where a precocious 10-year-old girl,