Noddy (TV series) Noddy (TV series) Noddy, also known as The Noddy Shop or Noddy in Toyland (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a Canadian-American children's television series based on Enid Blyton's children's book series of the same name with stop motion sequences from "Noddy's Toyland Adventures" that aired from August 31, 1998 to February 16, 2000 on PBS in the United States. Following its cancellation, reruns were aired until September 5th, 2004. The series was produced by BBC Worldwide, Catalyst Entertainment and Enid Blyton Ltd. The show starred Sean McCann as Noah Tomten, a former old salt, who now runs an
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,