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
Paul Bright (author) first short story for children appeared in a compilation ‘Time Watch’ published by Orion Children’s Books in 1997. In the following years he had many children’s poems in compilations published by Macmillan, Hodder, Oxford University Press and others. Bright’s first picture book, "Under the Bed", illustrated by Ben Cort, was published in 2003 by Little Tiger Press. He is represented by the Curtis Brown agency. Bright is married, with two children, and lives in Kent. Paul Bright (author) Paul Francis Bright (born 19 March 1949) is an English writer, mainly of picture books and poetry for children. His stories have