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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