noddy
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An old game at cards.
A simpleton; a fool.
Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.
The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.
A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.
An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
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Blyton's granddaughter, Sophie Smallwood, wrote a new Noddy book to celebrate the character's 60th birthday, 46 years after the last book was published; Noddy and the Farmyard Muddle (2009) was illustrated by Robert Tyndall.
Her declining health and a falling off in readership among older children have been put forward as the principal reasons for this change in trend.sfn Blyton published her last book in the Noddy series, Noddy and the Aeroplane, in February 1964.
Enid Blyton's Adventure Magazine began publication in September 1985, and on 14 October 1992 the BBC began publishing Noddy Magazine and released the Noddy CD-Rom in October 1996.
Final works Many of Blyton's series, including Noddy and The Famous Five, continued to be successful in the 1960s; by 1962, 26 million copies of Noddy had been sold.