Book excerpt: Meet Noddy the little wooden boy who comes to life in Enid Blyton's most enduringly popular creation. Noddy is having a very good day. Everybody keeps telling him how marvellous he is. But it all goes to his head and he is soon singing songs about how wonderful he is! When Big-Ears sees how Noddy has changed, he decides to send him to school. It's time Noddy learnt a couple of lessons... First published in 1952, this edition contains the original text by Enid Blyton and illustrations by Hamsen van der Beek.