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Puffin Post Vol.6 No.2

Fat Puffin, Jill McDonald, Puffin Club, Puffin Post

A cover with a rare opportunity to see a ‘real’ puffin alongside Fat Puffin.

Contents include:

Coverage of the Great Puffin 5th Birthday Exhibition.
A call to all Puffineers (members) from Kaye Webb to help raise £3000 to buy a stretch of coastline as a Puffin reserve. I add that this was achieved and is still there! If you want to visit, it is part of the RSPB reserve on Bempton Cliffs.

Short Stories:
The Changeling Dragon – by Modwena Sedgwick (illustrated by Ronald Searle)
Maddened by Mystery or The Defective Detective – by Stephen Leacock

Interview with Pauline Baynes – illustrator of the Narnia books
Interview with Arthur C. Clarke

Norman Hunter’s Magic Corner
David Swift talks about his Role as Napoleon in the BBC adaptation of War and Peace (1972)

Fat Puffin loves you…

Jill McDonald, Puffin Club, Puffin Mug


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…

Jill McDonald, Puffin Club, Puffin Mug


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…

Jill McDonald, Kaye Webb, Puffin Club, Puffin Post

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…

Jill McDonald, Kaye Webb, Puffin Club, Puffin Post

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).