Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780001007147
ISBN number: 0001007149
Label: Picture Lions
Manufacturer: Picture Lions
Page Count: 32
Printing Date: December 01, 1997
Publishing house: Picture Lions
Studio: Picture Lions
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This story is not an original Enid Blyton. The author is in fact Fiona Cummings who was commissioned to write another series of Noddy Stories under the Enid Blyton trademark. Dame Enid gets full credit on the cover and title page but you have to look on the publisher's details page (ISBN number etc) to see that the story is in fact by Fiona Cummings.
The story is written 40 years after the classic 24 title Noddy Series "All Aboard for Toy Land". A good example of the original is "Noddy and Tessie Bear" The fate of the new generation "Mr Plod and the Stolen Bicycle" is very similar to what has happened to Pooh Bear and Tigger in recent years. We have gone from the quaint Edwardian language of the original to the uncomplicated, perhaps, trivialized language of the contemporary versions.
We have lost all of the "Englishness" of the original. Strange vocabulary and sentence structures could be off-putting to children used to a cartoon/comic dominated diet. Old fashioned concepts such as manners, politeness and deference have been expunged.
The illustrations have also been sanitized. Compared to the pictures in the original series they have lost their bright hard edges and have drifted into a more pastelly palette.
Although the original series of Noddy could be heavy going for some of today's young readers, we have seen how JK Rowling has demonstrated that the reading appetites of young readers can include sophisticated content.
Look out for the "Noddy Classic Library" and avoid the "Toy Town Stories", As bedtime stories go, the Classic Noddy will give you a 30-minute passage to dreamland. In contrast the modern versions like "Mr Plod and the Stolen Bicycle" would be lucky to give you 3 minutes of story. What child would be satisfied with that?
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