An enjoyable review of
A Day With Noddy (which I haven't read). I couldn't help noticing this line:
Some people can't stand the little chap (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Now who could that possibly be??
I was more surprised by this observation, though:
Noddy's original artist, Harmsen van der Beek (Beek), isn't acknowledged in this particular volume.
Well, Harmsen van der Beek died in 1953 and this book was published in 1956 — I don't think Beek ever was acknowledged in any of the books he didn't illustrate. Of the Noddy books I recently bought, one of them has "Pictures by Beek" as stated on the cover, but the others are from after his time and none of them has any indication of who the illustrator was.