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
The Story of the Amulet of two drops of quicksilver (Mercury) merging from Nesbit’s "The Story of the Amulet" and described her work as the “pleasantest reading of my childhood”. The Story of the Amulet The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by English author Edith Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes "Five Children and It" (1902) and "The Phoenix and the Carpet" (1904). In it the children re-encounter the Psammead—the "it" in "Five Children and It". As it no longer grants wishes to the children, however, its capacity is mainly