The entertainments group that owns the TV rights to Enid Blyton's creations as well as another tots' favourite, the Mr Men, is pushing ahead with plans to make two new children's programmes about them.

Chorion revealed it wanted to base the new shows on the work of international best-selling children's authors Cleckheaton-born Roger Hargreaves and Blyton, whose daughter Gillian Bavestock lives in Ilkley.

Chorion is looking for experienced animation companies to put in bids to make two new shows based on the Mr Men and Little Miss books and to produce another on one of Blyton's best-loved children's characters.

The company has still not decided which one of Blyton's characters will be the star but Pip the Pixie is a possibility, a Chorion spokesman said.

Pip first appeared in the Sunday Graphic newspaper on May 6, 1945. More than 60 of his woodland adventures have been printed in two books.

Blyton's daughter Mrs Bavestock said: "It would be funny if Pip now became bigger than Noddy. I'm not sure it will happen, but he is a wonderful little character."

Chorion bought the rights to her mother's work from her in 1988.

In May last year it also bought the entire rights to the 46 Mr Men and 33 Little Miss characters featured in 100 million books sold worldwide.