Noddy (character) used as an adjective meaning "petty or trivial" (compare with "Mickey Mouse"), for example, in computer programming: ""This simultaneous linear equation subroutine crashes out on the Noddy case when n = 1, but otherwise it works."" or ""Remember to check all the Noddy cases."" "Toytown" was a BBC radio series for children, broadcast for Children's Hour on the Home Service from 1929. It featured Larry The Lamb as its chief character. Noddy (character) Noddy is a fictional character created by English children's author Enid Blyton, originally published between 1949 and 1963. Noddy was illustrated by the Dutch artist Eelco Martinus
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,