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The Development of Puffin Books
- Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, January 2009
- pp. 40-45
- 10.1353/bkb.0.0142
- Article
- Additional Information
Puffin, the children’s imprint of the famous British publishing house Penguin Books, has been publishing children’s paperbacks for almost 70 years. With their distinctive colophon in the form of a black and white puffin, Puffin books are instantly recognisable all over the world. Kate Wright traces the development of this quality children’s list, which has encouraged several generations of readers