Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Sir Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was hatched in 1939 when Noel Carrington, at the time an editor for Country Life books, met him and proposed a series of children's non-fiction picture books, inspired by the brightly coloured lithographed books mass-produced at the time for Soviet children. Lane saw the potential, and the first of the picture book series were published the following year. The name "Puffin" was a natural companion to the existing "Penguin" and "Pelican" books. Many continued to be reprinted right into the 1970s. A fiction list soon followed, when Puffin secured the paperback rights to Barbara Euphan Todd’s 1936 story Worzel Gummidge and brought it out as the first Puffin story book in 1941.
Many well-known illustrators and artists illustrated covers for Puffins - Charles Tunniliffe, Ronald Searle, and Edward Ardizzone amongst others.
This is part 3 of a 3 - part post on Puffin Books.
For earlier works, see parts 1 - 2 also.
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| 1960 Eleanor Farjeon's Book: Stories - Verses - Plays illustrated by Edward Ardizzone |
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| 1960 The Borrowers Afield illustrated by Diana Stanley |
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| 1960 The Railway Children illustrated by C.E. Brock |
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| 1960 The Silver Sword illustrated by C. Walter Hodges |
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| 1961 A Little Princess illustrated by Margery Gill |
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| 1961 Carbonel illustrated by V.H. Drummond |
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| 1961 The Orphans of Simitra illustrated by Margery Gill |
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| 1961 The Otterbury Incident illustrated by Edward Ardizzone |
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| 1961 The Otterbury Incident illustrated by Edward Ardizzone |
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| 1961 The Street Musician illustrated by Richard Kennedy |
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| 1962 Tell Me a Story illustrated by Judith Bledsoe |
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| 1963 Children on the Oregon Trail cover by Elizabeth Grant |
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| 1963 Stig of the Dump illustrated by Edward Ardizzone |
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| 1963 The Cricket in Times Square illustrated by Garth Williams |
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| 1963 Worzel Gummidge |
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| 1964 A Dog So Small illustrated by Anthony Maitland |
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| 1964 Little House on the Prairie |
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| 1964 The Bookshop on the Quay illustrated by Peggy Fortnum |
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| 1964 The Bookshop on the Quay illustrated by Peggy Fortnum |
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| 1964 The Children Who Stayed Behind cover by Walter C. Hodges |
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| 1964 The Children Who Stayed Behind cover by Walter C. Hodges |
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| 1964 The Children's Crusade |
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| 1964 The Magician's Nephew illustrated by Pauline Baynes |
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| 1964 The Rescuers |
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| 1965 Prince Caspian illustrated by Pauline Baynes |
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| 1965 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader illustrated by Pauline Baynes |
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| 1965 The Young Detectives |
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| 1966 Five Children and It illustrated by H.R. Miller |
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| 1966 The Land of Green Ginger illustrated by Edward Ardizzone |
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| 1968 Peter Duck |
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| 1968 The Long Winter |
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| 1969 Coot Club |
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| 1969 Secret Water |
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| 1970 Secret Laughter illustrated by Margery Gill |
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| 1970 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
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| 1970 The Borrowers Afloat |
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| 1970 The Borrowers Aloft |
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| 1976 The Story of the Amulet |
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| 1977 Tarka the Otter |
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| The Phoenix and the Carpet ( I do not have a date for this ) |
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| The Secret Garden ( I do not have a date for this ) |
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| Treasure Island ( I do not have a date for this ) |
