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Noddy's Pet Chicken
Noddy's Pet Chicken Hardback Import, Noddy, New Book
- GenresChildrens
32 pages, Paperback
First published March 10, 2005
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About the author
Enid Blyton
5,227 books6,393 followersSee 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
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
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March 30, 2020
I love Noddy! I grew up reading him and Big Ears and everyone in Noddyland. These were my first books of Enid Blyton's. My maternal grandparents had a few of these and my mom and her brothers grew up reading them too.
August 4, 2017
Not everyone has a pet chicken (although my daughter did have Gwendoline and Oscar!) but Noddy decides he will have one when he spots one stood looking forlorn in the middle of the road as he was going along in his car with Big Ears as a passenger.
Big Ears asks the chicken if he is lost but gets no reply so Noddy decides he will take him home and give him some of his own favourite food and get him to play his favourite games with him. He even makes up a little song about his pet chicken.
Noddy leaves Big Ears behind, puts the chicken in the car and drives rather too fast towards home. The chicken did not like driving in the car and Noddy soon realised that he did not like fast driving either. So Noddy slowed down.
Once home, Noddy offers two caramel treats to the chicken who turns his nose, or beak maybe, up at them. Dinah Doll then appears on the scene and Noddy asks her why the chicken will not eat caramel treats. Dinah realises that he likes different treats and produces some corn that the chicken gobbles down very quickly. 'Not everybody likes to eat the same things,' Dinah tells Noddy.
Noddy then tries to get the chicken to climb a tree with him and go roller skating with him but the chicken declines both offers. He then tries throwing a ball but even though Bumpy Dog chases it - and scares the chicken into the bargain -, the chicken would not do so. As a consequence it began to run away only to be stopped by Mr Plod the policeman who instructs Noddy to take the chicken home.
Noddy asks Big Ears what to do and he says that they should take the chicken back to where they found it and it might remember where he belongs. So this they do and when there, the chicken flies out of Noddy's hands and lands on a pink fence.
Noddy decides that this is where the chicken lives and then he hears Tessie bear exclaim, 'You found my lost chicken. Thank you for bringing him back.' She says that she could then feed him corn and let him scratch the grass, which were his favourite things to do. Noddy is delighted to hear this and he waves goodbye to Tessie Bear and he and Big Ears smile and say simultaneously, 'Things have turned out best for everybody.'
... and another exciting Noddy adventure comes to a close; thank you Enid Blyton for inventing him!
Big Ears asks the chicken if he is lost but gets no reply so Noddy decides he will take him home and give him some of his own favourite food and get him to play his favourite games with him. He even makes up a little song about his pet chicken.
Noddy leaves Big Ears behind, puts the chicken in the car and drives rather too fast towards home. The chicken did not like driving in the car and Noddy soon realised that he did not like fast driving either. So Noddy slowed down.
Once home, Noddy offers two caramel treats to the chicken who turns his nose, or beak maybe, up at them. Dinah Doll then appears on the scene and Noddy asks her why the chicken will not eat caramel treats. Dinah realises that he likes different treats and produces some corn that the chicken gobbles down very quickly. 'Not everybody likes to eat the same things,' Dinah tells Noddy.
Noddy then tries to get the chicken to climb a tree with him and go roller skating with him but the chicken declines both offers. He then tries throwing a ball but even though Bumpy Dog chases it - and scares the chicken into the bargain -, the chicken would not do so. As a consequence it began to run away only to be stopped by Mr Plod the policeman who instructs Noddy to take the chicken home.
Noddy asks Big Ears what to do and he says that they should take the chicken back to where they found it and it might remember where he belongs. So this they do and when there, the chicken flies out of Noddy's hands and lands on a pink fence.
Noddy decides that this is where the chicken lives and then he hears Tessie bear exclaim, 'You found my lost chicken. Thank you for bringing him back.' She says that she could then feed him corn and let him scratch the grass, which were his favourite things to do. Noddy is delighted to hear this and he waves goodbye to Tessie Bear and he and Big Ears smile and say simultaneously, 'Things have turned out best for everybody.'
... and another exciting Noddy adventure comes to a close; thank you Enid Blyton for inventing him!
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