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
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