Category Archives: Puffin Post

Puffin Post Vol.8 no.2

Penelope Farmer, Puffin Club, Puffin Exhibition, Puffin Post, Ursula Le Guin

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.9 no.1

Jill McDonald, Puffin Club, Puffin Exhibition, Puffin Post


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

Jill McDonald, Puffin Club, Puffin Exhibition, Puffin Post


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.8 no.3

Jill McDonald, Puffin Club, Puffin Post, TOMCAT


One of Jill McDonalds more surreal covers (this one was a bind to restore!). This features TOMCAT with one of his more unusual thought processes!

This issue contained:

Short Stories:
Treacle Tart – by Robert Graves

featuring:
Space Oddities by Patrick Moore
A Single Clue – Mollie Hunter explains why she writes historical novels
Making a Corn Dolly
Susan Cooper tells us about Secret Places
Soldier and Me – about the adaptation of ‘Run for your Life’ on Granada TV

… and Norman Hunters Magic Corner

Puffin Post Vol.8 no.3

Jill McDonald, Puffin Club, Puffin Post, TOMCAT


One of Jill McDonalds more surreal covers (this one was a bind to restore!). This features TOMCAT with one of his more unusual thought processes!

This issue contained:

Short Stories:
Treacle Tart – by Robert Graves

featuring:
Space Oddities by Patrick Moore
A Single Clue – Mollie Hunter explains why she writes historical novels
Making a Corn Dolly
Susan Cooper tells us about Secret Places
Soldier and Me – about the adaptation of ‘Run for your Life’ on Granada TV

… and Norman Hunters Magic Corner

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)

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)

Puffin Post Vol.4 No.4

Jill McDonald, Puffin Post


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