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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Noddy
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The best-known character created by Enid *Blyton. A wooden figure of a small boy, whose head nods when he speaks, Noddy first appeared in 1949 in Little Noddy goes to Toyland. In Toyland he made friends with Big-Ears the Brownie and the two reappeared together in countless books, drawn at first by a Dutch artist, Harmsen van der Beek, and after his death in 1953 by others copying his creations. Noddy was immediately much criticized by adults, for general inanity and because *golliwogs sometimes appeared in the stories as villains, but the response of children remained enthusiastic. In all new editions from 1987 the golliwogs were replaced by gnomes.
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