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
Noddy Holder of the borough. On 25 September 2014, Holder released his second book via Constable, titled "The World According to Noddy". In December 2015, he appeared as a presenter on BBC television's "Songs of Praise". On Christmas Day 2015 Holder appeared in a cameo role in BBC television's "Mrs Brown's Boys". Holder married dress designer Leandra Russell in 1976. They had two daughters Jessica and Charisse, and divorced in 1984. In 2004, Holder married TV producer Suzan Price, with whom he has a son, Django (named after Django Reinhardt). Holder lives in Prestbury, Cheshire. Noddy Holder Neville John "Noddy" Holder, (born