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
Tom Noddy Europe and other parts of the world (Abu Dhabi in November, 2011). In August 2011, he featured in the BBC-TV programme "The Code", presented by mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, where he demonstrated the ability of bubbles to form minimal surface structures. Tom Noddy Tom Noddy is the stage name of an American entertainer whose television performances of Bubble Magic in the early 1980s led to a book deal and Bubble Festivals at science centers all across America. In the early 1980s Noddy first performed his original demonstration of skills with soap bubbles on American television's That's Incredible! and Johnny Carson's