Here’s a nice little article that Jill McDonald wrote about the creation of Fat Puffin – it’s a shame that there aren’t similar articles for Odway and TOMCAT.
Enjoy!
Category Archives: Jill McDonald
Puffin Post Vol.4 No.4
Another blinder from Jill McDonald. I really take my hat off to this lady. I still kick myself that I missed meeting her at the Puffin Exhibitions I attended. Ah my misspent youth chasing after authors!!
Anywho… the contents of this issue included:
Short stories:
My friend the Snake Charmer – by Ben Lucien Burman
The Picketty Ghost – by Ursula Moray Williams
Singular Disaster Strikes Survivor Z&!!5 – This looks like a collaboration by Jill McDonald and Norman Hunter – I’ll have to look into this!
Meet Your Author – Francis Hodgson Burnett – by Ann Thwaite
Museum Mania – A guide to five museums of interest to puffineers
…and pictures from the Hallowe’en party held on October 31st 1970 in Middlesex
Puffin Post Vol.4 No.4
Another blinder from Jill McDonald. I really take my hat off to this lady. I still kick myself that I missed meeting her at the Puffin Exhibitions I attended. Ah my misspent youth chasing after authors!!
Anywho… the contents of this issue included:
Short stories:
My friend the Snake Charmer – by Ben Lucien Burman
The Picketty Ghost – by Ursula Moray Williams
Singular Disaster Strikes Survivor Z&!!5 – This looks like a collaboration by Jill McDonald and Norman Hunter – I’ll have to look into this!
Meet Your Author – Francis Hodgson Burnett – by Ann Thwaite
Museum Mania – A guide to five museums of interest to puffineers
…and pictures from the Hallowe’en party held on October 31st 1970 in Middlesex
Puffin Post Vol.5 no.3
Isn’t this fantastic?! Jill was on form that day. This took a bit of cleaning up – several creases and wear to the edges, not to mention yellowing due to age! It’s cleaned up nicely.
This issue included:
Short stories:
The Day I didn’t have my photograph taken – by Janet Hitchman
Cosmic George – by Scoular Anderson
The Buffalo – by Beatrice Tanaka
An article by Gerald Leach about being eco-friendly with the worlds resources (not such a new concept then!)
Peter Dickinson explaining about Heartsease
Micheal Bond introduces Olga da Polga
Pictures from the Colony Holiday in Chichester, August 1971 and various other events…
And a reminder to order the new 1972 Puffin Diary!
Puffin Post Vol.5 no.3
Isn’t this fantastic?! Jill was on form that day. This took a bit of cleaning up – several creases and wear to the edges, not to mention yellowing due to age! It’s cleaned up nicely.
This issue included:
Short stories:
The Day I didn’t have my photograph taken – by Janet Hitchman
Cosmic George – by Scoular Anderson
The Buffalo – by Beatrice Tanaka
An article by Gerald Leach about being eco-friendly with the worlds resources (not such a new concept then!)
Peter Dickinson explaining about Heartsease
Micheal Bond introduces Olga da Polga
Pictures from the Colony Holiday in Chichester, August 1971 and various other events…
And a reminder to order the new 1972 Puffin Diary!
Fat Puffin loves you…
This is the graphic designed by Jill McDonald for a Puffin Mug that was given away as prizes and sold at various Puffin Exhibitions in the late 70’s.
I had my mug safely stored away and then my eldest daughter managed to smash it!
After sticking it back together, I photographed it and then reconstructed a clean image. A bit of a labour of love, but I loved the translation of the plimsol line on the side of Fat Puffins tum.
I may get round to getting it put on a new mug and let you see how it looks.
Fat Puffin loves you…
This is the graphic designed by Jill McDonald for a Puffin Mug that was given away as prizes and sold at various Puffin Exhibitions in the late 70’s.
I had my mug safely stored away and then my eldest daughter managed to smash it!
After sticking it back together, I photographed it and then reconstructed a clean image. A bit of a labour of love, but I loved the translation of the plimsol line on the side of Fat Puffins tum.
I may get round to getting it put on a new mug and let you see how it looks.
I suppose I’d better get started…
After much ‘putting it off’ and not really doing anything about it, I’ve decided to put some of my thoughts and memories online about the wondrous entity that was the Puffin Club of the late 60’s , 70’s and 80’s. This is partly a love of the old club and partly a continuing admiration of the work of the late Jill McDonald and Kaye Webb.
I was a member of the club from the mid seventies till the mid eighties, alongside my younger brother, and being the bookish obsessive type, I took a keen interest in the early history and culture of the club.
I would love to hear from previous members of the Puffin Club – particularly founder members – with their memories, stories, anecdotes and photo’s.
Those of you with school age kids will probably be aware of the current school club that is the surviving face of the old club. Things are going to change – but I’m not going to be the one to spread spoilers!! If you want to know more, register on www.puffincountdown.co.uk for more information.
I will be posting cleaned up images from my collection of Puffin Post, leaflets, badges , stickers and other ephemera. Please respect the copyright of these items – they are for fun, not profit!!
I must add that Puffin Post is copyright Penguin books and that no copyright infringement or financial gain is intended or inferred. (Glad I got that out of the way!!)
I hasten to add that I am not affiliated with Penguin, Puffin or any other group attached to the old club (other than being an old member).
I suppose I’d better get started…
After much ‘putting it off’ and not really doing anything about it, I’ve decided to put some of my thoughts and memories online about the wondrous entity that was the Puffin Club of the late 60’s , 70’s and 80’s. This is partly a love of the old club and partly a continuing admiration of the work of the late Jill McDonald and Kaye Webb.
I was a member of the club from the mid seventies till the mid eighties, alongside my younger brother, and being the bookish obsessive type, I took a keen interest in the early history and culture of the club.
I would love to hear from previous members of the Puffin Club – particularly founder members – with their memories, stories, anecdotes and photo’s.
Those of you with school age kids will probably be aware of the current school club that is the surviving face of the old club. Things are going to change – but I’m not going to be the one to spread spoilers!! If you want to know more, register on www.puffincountdown.co.uk for more information.
I will be posting cleaned up images from my collection of Puffin Post, leaflets, badges , stickers and other ephemera. Please respect the copyright of these items – they are for fun, not profit!!
I must add that Puffin Post is copyright Penguin books and that no copyright infringement or financial gain is intended or inferred. (Glad I got that out of the way!!)
I hasten to add that I am not affiliated with Penguin, Puffin or any other group attached to the old club (other than being an old member).