NODDY-MANIA could soon be coming to Beaconsfield after Cllr Elsie Barton suggested residents could dress up as Noddy in a bid to raise money for charity.

NODDY-MANIA could soon be coming to Beaconsfield after Cllr Elsie Barton suggested residents could dress up as Noddy in a bid to raise money for charity.

The event would coincide with the release date of a £10million TV series featuring the children's favourite, whose author, Enid Blyton, used to live in Beaconsfield.

The series is planned for release next year and will have book, toy and internet spin-offs.

Enid Blyton moved to Beaconsfield in 1938 but the demolition of her house in Penn Road in the early 1970s meant she joined an elite club of literary luminaries in the town to have had their houses pulled down and replaced with modern developments.

Cllr Barton said the town could theme its awareness day around characters from some of Enid Blyton's books.

She said: 'I think it would be a good idea to link the release of the television series with the town's awareness day, both of which take place in June.

'Maybe we could have people dressed up as Noddy walking around the town.'

Cllr John Gorton said the council had not considered any kind of tribute to the author.

He added: 'I suggested to the town that they should make some sort of signal of the literary associations of Beaconsfield and I am very interested to hear they are making this new television programme.'

Beaconsfield has a long association with a number of leading lights in the literary world, including the celebrated poet Robert Frost, whose home, The Bungalow, was demolished in the early 1990s.

At the beginning of this month Linda Hart, an American writer and broadcaster, called for a plaque to be mounted on the site where Frost's home stood.

Other writers to have lived in the town include GK Chesterton, author of the Father Brown detective novels, and Edmund Waller, a Civil War poet.