Another lovely sunny cover. A bit trippy, but still one of my favourites.
This issue has a really nice feel about it – even more cheery than usual.
Maybe it’s because it has pics from the 10th Birthday show
Puffin Post Vol.11 no.2
Another lovely sunny cover. A bit trippy, but still one of my favourites.
This issue has a really nice feel about it – even more cheery than usual.
Maybe it’s because it has pics from the 10th Birthday show
Puffin Post Vol.8 no.2
Since the summer sun has finally decided to show it’s face, I thought this cover would add to the mood.
This issue contained:
Short stories:
The Most Beautiful House – by Paul Biegel
Question Mark and the Wosbos – by Carolyn Sloane
Featuring:
Pictures from the 7th Puffin Show at the Commonwealth Institute
Building a Castle – Penelope Farmer tells how she came to write ‘A Castle of Bone’
Witches and Witchdoctors I have met – by Ben Lucien Burman
Volcanoes – by Rupert Furneux
Old Jokes by Bronnie Cunningham
Meet your Author – Ursula Le Guin – by Susan Stanley Wolk
and of course – Norman Hunter’s Magic Corner
Puffin Post Vol.8 no.2
Since the summer sun has finally decided to show it’s face, I thought this cover would add to the mood.
This issue contained:
Short stories:
The Most Beautiful House – by Paul Biegel
Question Mark and the Wosbos – by Carolyn Sloane
Featuring:
Pictures from the 7th Puffin Show at the Commonwealth Institute
Building a Castle – Penelope Farmer tells how she came to write ‘A Castle of Bone’
Witches and Witchdoctors I have met – by Ben Lucien Burman
Volcanoes – by Rupert Furneux
Old Jokes by Bronnie Cunningham
Meet your Author – Ursula Le Guin – by Susan Stanley Wolk
and of course – Norman Hunter’s Magic Corner
Something sticky…
Not a cover this time, but a sticker that was handed out at the early 70’s events. I’m lucky these survived for me to do the restoration bit on them. Badly yellowed and faded but still with a great deal of charm. I can’t tell you what it feels like to bring this one back to life!
Something sticky…
Not a cover this time, but a sticker that was handed out at the early 70’s events. I’m lucky these survived for me to do the restoration bit on them. Badly yellowed and faded but still with a great deal of charm. I can’t tell you what it feels like to bring this one back to life!
Puffin Post Vol.9 no.1
This is a work in progress. The copy I have in my collection is badly printed (the magenta isn’t in register) This makes the original look very pink. I have been tweaking it on my Mac to realign the magenta part of the image and then retouch the damage of the years. It’s nearly there, but I thought I’d share it with you. I wonder if every copy in the print run was printed this badly? Was yours in a better condition?
I got hold of this when the club had a clear out and made them available to members – I sent off my pocket money as fast as I could!! Some of my others were grabbed at the Exhibitions – again with most of my saved up pocket money.
Jill McDonald did a few of these ensemble covers – a mass of puffins all symbolising different personalities, moods or activities. They were a story in their own right.
Puffin Post Vol.9 no.1
This is a work in progress. The copy I have in my collection is badly printed (the magenta isn’t in register) This makes the original look very pink. I have been tweaking it on my Mac to realign the magenta part of the image and then retouch the damage of the years. It’s nearly there, but I thought I’d share it with you. I wonder if every copy in the print run was printed this badly? Was yours in a better condition?
I got hold of this when the club had a clear out and made them available to members – I sent off my pocket money as fast as I could!! Some of my others were grabbed at the Exhibitions – again with most of my saved up pocket money.
Jill McDonald did a few of these ensemble covers – a mass of puffins all symbolising different personalities, moods or activities. They were a story in their own right.
The Most Gigantic Tiny Notebook…
Something a bit different. I got this notebook at one of the Puffin Exhibitions – I can’t remember if they were free or not, but I ended up with two or three of them. The print registration was pretty poor on the original, with the orange leaving gaps of white around the left hand edges. I’ve tidied this up and kept the texture of the card (about 240gsm for the pedants out there).
As an added point of interest, Kaye Webb had a rubber stamp of the same design without the text, that she used to stamp autograph books and fly sheets of autograph hunters.
This is a pretty rare item as many kids ended up throwing them away after filling them with scribble. I remember seeing loads of them being swept up at the end of the exhibition, sans cover or contents. There may be a few out there that were used as impromptu autograph books – if so, I would love to hear from you.
The Most Gigantic Tiny Notebook…
Something a bit different. I got this notebook at one of the Puffin Exhibitions – I can’t remember if they were free or not, but I ended up with two or three of them. The print registration was pretty poor on the original, with the orange leaving gaps of white around the left hand edges. I’ve tidied this up and kept the texture of the card (about 240gsm for the pedants out there).
As an added point of interest, Kaye Webb had a rubber stamp of the same design without the text, that she used to stamp autograph books and fly sheets of autograph hunters.
This is a pretty rare item as many kids ended up throwing them away after filling them with scribble. I remember seeing loads of them being swept up at the end of the exhibition, sans cover or contents. There may be a few out there that were used as impromptu autograph books – if so, I would love to hear from you.