The ninth book in Enid Blyton's The Noddy Library, a series of brightly illustrated chapter-books recounting the adventures of a wooden toy with a nodding head, Noddy and the Magic Rubber follows our hero on a wild goose chase, as he and Bert the Monkey attempt to track down the magic rubber given to Bert by his grandmother. With the power to erase anything it touches, the magic rubber has great potential for misuse, something Noddy and Bert discover when they finally track it down to the Tubby Bear home. Can they recover the rubber in time, or will little Master Tubby erase his entire house...?

As mentioned is previous reviews, there is some controversy attached to these books, due to the inclusion of black-faced wooden dolls - called golliwogs - in the original editions. My copies were printed in 1996 however, and must be revised editions, as I encountered no golliwogs. Be that as it may, I would nevertheless hesitate to recommend this series to any of the young readers of my acquaintance, as they are so mawkishly sweet and sentimental. ( )