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 Children of the Night of the Night, which should be eliminated. The author insist on their lowly and "abhorrent" status, although in the whole story, they don't behave differently from the other barbarian tribes and many end up being massacred by the main character. "The Black Stone" refers to a community which existed in a remote mountain region of Hungary and which practiced sinister rites involving human-sacrifice, towards which the narrator expresses a revulsion similar to that expressed to the "Children of the Night" in the present story. These are mentioned as having been totally exterminated by the Ottoman armies in 1526, an act