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We're celebrating 80 years of Puffin! Since 1940, millions of children around the world have grown-up dreaming of big friendly giants, magical wardrobes and spiders named Charlotte. They've imagined rivers of chocolate, green sheep and bunyips, dogs called Spot, and very hungry caterpillars. Here's how Puffin's story began . . .


Our Very Own Book Club with BEAR Nibbles & Puffin Books AAUBlog

The first ever Puffin books weren't fiction, but in fact . . . factual, released at the start of World War II to help children understand the evacuations. Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin, realised that with so many city kids in the country for the first time, there would be a renewed interest in the natural world, and so, in 1940, along.


Our Very Own Book Club with BEAR Nibbles & Puffin Books AAUBlog

There was a secret Puffin Club greeting for members: "Sniffup", and a response: "Spotera". (Try reading them backwards). Each month, Puffin would hide 50 coded messages in new books all over the country but only members had the code to decipher them. The Puffin Club's 'computer' was called TOMCAT (Totally Obedient Machine Cannot.


Our Very Own Book Club with BEAR Nibbles & Puffin Books AAUBlog

Puffin Post was discontinued in 1982, but relaunched in 2009 through The Book People as a bi-monthly magazine including contributions from Charlie Higson, Cathy Cassidy and Michael Morpurgo, along.


1968 The Puffin Club

The Puffin Club was the brainchild of Kaye Webb, the celebrated editor of Puffin Books. The club itself was born in 1967 after Kaye had persuaded Sir Allen Lane, the owner of Penguin Books, that the club would make children into adult readers. Members were not sold books directly. News of new books and requests to review them and short stories.


Behind the scenes โ€” PUFFIN CLUB. EVENTS BLAST FROM THE PAST. Found...

In this Puffin video from the 1980s, we are introduced to some of the nation's favourite authors and illustrators including Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake, Shirle.


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The Puffin Club was the groundbreaking venture launched by editor Kaye Webb in 1967 that changed

Puffin Books. 55,614 likes ยท 1,943 talking about this. Stories can take you anywhere. We want ALL children to feel that they can go anywhere & be anything.


Puffin Club Original Vintage 1970s Puffin Club Exhibiton badges, and a member badge for the

A blog archive of the Puffin Club | Monday, 5 December 2016. Calling all ex Puffineers! I am looking for your stories and, if you have them, pictures about your time as members of the Puffin Club from it's launch in 1967 through to its end in the early 1980's.. Labels: Jill McDonald, Odway, Puffin Books, Puffin Club. Sunday, 17 April 2011.


(Different) Kettle of Fish Puffin Post from the Puffin Club

Puffin Post. Puffin Post was a children's books magazine published by Puffin Books, and the magazine of the Puffin Club. It was launched in 1967 by Kaye Webb, editor of Puffin Books. It declined after Webb retired in 1982, but was relaunched in 2009 through the bookseller The Book People as a bi-monthly magazine.


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Our Very Own Book Club with BEAR Nibbles & Puffin Books AAUBlog

The Puffin Club -mid 1970's to mid 1980's. Books from those magical Puffin order forms that would be handed out at school. Making this list to try and track down some old faves! flag. All Votes Add Books To This List. 1.


Me, Writing & The Puffin Book Club by Emma Willmer Found In My Journal

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No Brainer (Book 18) Jeff Kinney. A Really Short Journey Through the Body Bill Bryson, Emma Young. The Ministry of Unladylike Activity 2: The Body in the Blitz Robin Stevens. The Double Trouble Society and the Worst Curse Carrie Hope Fletcher. Manifest for Kids Roxie Nafousi. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of.


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Story of a cowboy's horse. PS 6. The Insect Man. Eleanor Doorly. Robert Gibbings. 1941. The story of children's visit to France to find out about Jean-Henri Fabre, who first understood the ways and habits of insects by long and systematic watching. Introduction by Walter de la Mare. PS 7.


BEAR & Puffinโ€™s Big Book Club Tumble Tots Members Offers

1. Recruit your members. Before you set out on your Big Book Club adventure it's time to decide who you'd like to join your club. It could be an exclusive two-member club with your brother or sister, or mum and dad. Or, maybe you'd like to make it friends only (no parents allowed!). If you like to get crafty, you could also try making.


Photograph of a Puffin Books display at a Puffin Club exhibition, around 1975. Jill mcdonald

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