28 - North Shore News - Friday, December 24, 1995

Books Drovide a bumper crop of Beano, Noddy |

@ The Beano Book 2000,
$15.95

The Bsmper Noddy
Annual 2000, $18.95,
both distributed by John
Wiley and Sons

GATHER round.
children, for a brace

La] of swashbuckling

1) tales with Dennis the
Menace, The Bash
Street Kids, aad
Toyland’s hometown
hero, Noddy.

Just in time for the hol-

idays, these pvo collections

offer all your favourite char-
acters in brand new adven-

tures.

Join Noddy as he drives
his little car around town,
with the bell on his pointy
hat ringing, to meer his
chums, Big Ears the dwarf,
Tessie Bear, Mr. Plod, and
Bert, “the cheekiest monkey
in Toyland.”

Enid Blyton nostalgia

- fiends (remember The

Faraway Tree?) may roll
their eyes in horror at the
modernization of Noddy,
with his new "90s friends
Dinah Doll, Bonita

Fiamingo, and Planet Pup
(*a battery operated robor
who thinks he’s from outer
space™).

Nonetheless, Tie Bumper
Noddy Aunual is an appeal-
ingly vibrant treasure trove
of activity for kids large and
small, complete with words
thar rhyme, spot-the-goblin,
counting games, and join-
the-dots.

Fans of the Beano comic
series, meanwhile, will
chuckle heartily at 7%e
Beano 2000 Bock.

Those of you who associ-
ate the word Beano with the
prevention of flatulence

don’t know what you're
missing.

Now is the time to
acquaint yourself with
Minnie the Minx, Les
Pretend, and Even Steven.

Beane 2000 even comes
with its own astrology chart
(“The Goat is my Star-
sign/Goat’s Faces are

Grotty/So I made one
handsome /by painting him
spotty” says the entry for
Capricorn).

No need to break into
Maplewood Farm and start
daubing. Just read the book
instead.

— Katharine Hamer

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