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How Puffin books defined childhood
Iconic book publisher Puffin is celebrating its 70th birthday
Whether you devoured The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe yourself, read Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland to your children or Fungus The Bogeyman to your grandchildren, Puffin is sure to have played a part in nurturing a passion for reading in you, your nearest and dearest.
As the publisher celebrates its 70th birthday, parent company Penguin has compiled almost of its most memorable covers in a gloriously nostalgic new book, Puffin By Design, that also recounts the story of the ground-breaking imprint.
It might seem foolhardy to have launched a new imprint in , a year when paper was rationed in the UK, but Puffin did so, with a range of relatively cheap educational Puffin Picture Books (War At Sea, A Book Of Insects) and illustrated story books such as Brer Rabbit.
The following year, editor Eleanor Graham embarked in earnest upon Puffin’s ongoing challenge of securing paperback
