Here Comes Noddy Again

Noddy #4

by Enid Blyton, Harmsen Van der Beek (Illustrator)

With revised illustrations, Enid Blyton's "Noddy Library series" has been updated to reflect today's non-sexist and multi-cultural society. These publications tie in with a television series.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Picture Books, Fantasy, Ebooks

62 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1951

About the author

See also:
Ένιντ Μπλάιτον (Greek)
Enida Blaitona (Latvian)
Энид Блайтон (Russian)
Inid Blajton (Serbian)
Інід Блайтон (Ukrainian)

Enid Mary Blyton (1897–1968) was an English author of children's books.

Born in South London, Blyton was the eldest of three children, and showed an early interest in music and reading. She was educated at St. Christopher's School, Beckenham, and - having decided not to pursue her music - at Ipswich High School, where she trained as a kindergarten teacher. She taught for five years before her 1924 marriage to editor Hugh Pollock, with whom she had two daughters. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters. She died in 1968, one year after her second husband.

Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Her stories were often either children's adventure and mystery stories, or fantasies involving magic. Notable series include: The Famous Five, The Secret Seven, The Five Find-Outers, Noddy, The Wishing Chair, Mallory Towers, and St. Clare's.

According to the Index Translationum, Blyton was the fifth most popular author in the world in 2007, coming after Lenin but ahead of Shakespeare.

See also her pen name Mary Pollock

Reviews

[Gerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

In his little red and yellow car Noddy ran a taxi business around Toy Town and in this series of adventures he takes his friends, and one not so friendly customer, to different places with quite differing results.

He takes the clockwork clown to the Village of Bouncing Balls where Noddy dented a ball that caused mayhem ot the two of them. Then Mr Straw, the farmer, wants some of his hens and ducks taken to market to be sold. Noddy obliges and has a traumatic journey with one hen sat on his head! on the way he met with a mishap that Mr Straw and his animals helped to overcome. Anyway, he eventually gets there and hands over the hens. It all turned out rather well for Noddy, though, because the hens had left a number of eggs on his car seat, 'Eleven eggs for my breakfast! What a stroke of good luck,' chuckled Noddy ... greedy Noddy!

Then the unfortunate passenger is a goblin who wants Noddy to take him from Noddy's House-for-One to a party in the Dark Wood at midnight. Not surprisingly, Noddy is not keen but the goblin eventually persuades him to do so. But Noddy's inclinations are right for the goblin only wants to cause mischief for Noddy who he leaves, hatless and shoeless in the wood with no car. Fortunately with the help of Big Ears, whose cottage he manages to get to, it is all sorted out, especially when Mr Plod is called in to take charge of the goblin and his friends.

In typical Noddy fashion he throws a party for all his friends in celebration of his good luck in getting his possessions back. Good old Noddy!

[Kimberley doruyter · Rating 4 out of 5]

it's nice to read some childhood favorites every once in a while

[Lex Brisalyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I rarely make reviews, but today, I feel like making one so here I am!

As a kid, I enjoyed the British-American CGI animated series Make Way for Noddy. One fine day, when I was browsing the piles of children's book in Booksale, I saw this storybook. My Tita heart was filled with much curiousity so I bought the book.

This book from the ever famous Enid Blyton is about a little wooden boy who lives and serves as a taxi driver in Toyland. He gives lifts to all of the Toyland's residents for sixpence a time. He is so friendly but so naive and gullible. Well, that makes his adventures so fun to read.

I am easy to please so I gave it a 5 out 5 stars rating. This book shows you how to be patient, kind, and helpful in times of need.

[Akcherrybomb · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the character of Noddy and the rest of the Toytown characters.

One thing I have noticed though is how Enids portrayal of Gollywogs is very negative and not sure if she had racist thoughts possibly.

[ShaLaka BhaNushali · Rating 5 out of 5]

With Shaktiman, Ramayan, Mahabharat, Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai and Khichadi airing on the television, during lockdown, nostalgia is hitting us hard, like literally hard! So I decided to take further dig into that feeling and read this book which I found while going through my old bookshelf. And guess what, I still enjoyed reading this ! .
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This collection of small eight stories is compiled in 60 pages with the name, Here Comes Noddy Again! Enid Blyton being 'her' when it comes to children's novel has written beautifully about her adolescent thoughts of imagination. This book tells about Noddy's adventures, his friends, his help and foolishness. .
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A good good good book to take you to the world of .
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'आ गया नौडी, नौडी! पी पी करके बोले|
आ गया नौडी, नौडी, आओ हम सब खेलें !'

[Sean Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

Book four of twenty four in the Noddy series and more of the same as Noddy has to sort out issues with his Taxi business.
I'm wondering if they ever do a movie version will he be played by De Niro as an updated Taxi Driver? Anyway enough of the guff and carry on, this was Noddy and he nodded his head through his story and we read it fairly quickly. That is four that I have read now (several more many moons ago but I don't recall which ones)

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Poor innocent, gullible Little Noddy. This certainly was a good book to open up the topic of stranger danger and why you should never take candy bribes 🤣

[Bookworm Blogger · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full review to come

[Sabri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Camus prend en de la graine mon gars

[Philippa :3 · Rating 4 out of 5]

THIS BOOK ATE!!! Noddy is a actual DIVA and so is Mr Big ears. Read it for a school competition and if I ever have kids I'll read it to them too :D

[Petra Jayne Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whether it be the version with the golliwogs or the goblins either way this story is creepy and disturbing and I enjoy reading dark children's stories.

[Mark]

If I can recall, this one has the peculiar beginning of already being in the midst of action when it starts instead of with the crack of day and celebration for being alive on another morning. There's no waking up in the bed and consequent song reflecting the overall mind state or weather. Nonetheless, many adventures and daily rituals still occur. Driving a taxi cab for a job he goes all around the town interacting with various characters. Unlike in the previous book, the Golliwogs aren't just seen as illustrations in the background walking hand in hand with a random blonde doll; no, they take the stage themselves in this one. It is patently noted that a protagonist should act with well manners and to defend what is rightly his. Everyone liked him. I don't know whether this is due to laziness or tradition but it's a well thought out plot point either way. Soon enough the Golliwogs enter the stage. For those who don't know they are popular blackface dolls throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. He makes his debut here by bursting his way through the House For One. In this way, Noddy can show off his good manners and the Golliwog, his bad ones. As some kind of sick joke there's a part where he goes outside in the dark and bumped into the Golliwog because it was so dark and he was so black. He even sings his own version of a bad song, worshipping the darkness of the dark wood. He soon regrets taking the invitation to spend time with the Golliwog. In the name of art there are even a few amusing illustrations going along with it, with the Golliwogs looking as good as ever.



They rob him of the car and his clothes leaving him sad, sick, and scared, not to mention lonely. He soon finds help from his friends and the rest of the town's citizenship and they come up with a plan for how to recover the stolen belongings. All in all, I would say, a fun but predictable finish to the story. It was a little similar to how the goblins were found out in the second one, Hurrah For Little Noddy. The controversy is that when these characters get a chance to be featured in a work it is usually in a bad light, or an unfair one that probably isn't accurate to reality, for the sake of the art. And when an author gets a chance to use the Golliwog, they generally use them in the same degraded fashion instead of doing something new with the characters. To make a note, this is done with the character Gilbert, who owns the car garage and plays victim once however, he generally is a side character and not a noble like protagonist.

[Bookish Indulgenges with b00k r3vi3ws · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a bunch of Noddy books even before I could read. My mom would read them to me and there was a phase where I wouldn’t eat until my mom read out a Noddy Book or so I am told. There were a couple of books that I knew by heart and would pretend to read out from them.
Noddy is a fun pal to have as a child.

[Maria Carmo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every year I start with Children's books, to "train myself" (having a Grand Daughter who is almost one year old).
This is one of my favorites! The images are incredible, and Noddy lives a real adventure!
Except for the incipient "racism" present subsidiary in Enid Blyton's books, which I of course do not condone, this is a very funny story.

Maria Carmo,

Lisbon 1 January 2017

[Dipta Dharmesti · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mizz Noddy... Sekarang udah jarang Noddy yang tulisannya kecil-kecil dijual di toko buku...

[Afrah · Rating 5 out of 5]

the story was quite very good.

[Poonam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it so much!!I love my childhood favorite character Noddy!!