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Puffin Books

Index Puffin Books

Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. [1]

93 relations: Active Training and Education Trust, Alan Garner, Allen Lane, Antonia Forest, Artemis Fowl II, Ballet Shoes (novel), Barbara Euphan Todd, Barbara Sleigh, Bertelsmann, Book, Book People, C. S. Lewis, Carbonel: The King of the Cats, Cathy Cassidy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Charlie Higson, Charlotte's Web, Chief executive officer, Children's literature, Chris Van Allsburg, Clive King, Country Life (magazine), Danny, the Champion of the World, Doctor Dolittle, E. B. White, Eleanor Graham, Eric Carle, Eric Hill, Esio Trot, Eve Garnett, Fantastic Mr Fox, Fighting Fantasy, Gamebook, George's Marvellous Medicine, Ian Livingstone, Ian Serraillier, Internet, James and the Giant Peach, Jan Pieńkowski, Janet and Allan Ahlberg, Joan Aiken, Kaye Webb, Kylie Minogue, Leon Garfield, List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom, List of UK children's book publishers, London, Madonna (entertainer), Mary Poppins, ..., Matilda (novel), Meg and Mog, Michael Morpurgo, Mildred Hubble, Noel Carrington, Noel Streatfeild, Norman Hunter (author), Pearson plc, Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, Percy Jackson, Philippa Pearce, Professor Branestawm, Quentin Blake, Richard Adams, Richard Egielski, Roald Dahl, Robert T. Barrett, Rosemary Sutcliff, Scarlett (Cassidy novel), Social media, Spike Milligan, Spot (franchise), Steve Jackson (British game designer), Stig of the Dump, The BFG, The Enormous Crocodile, The Family from One End Street, The Guardian, The Hobbit, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Magic Finger, The Silver Sword, The Twits, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Walt Disney Company, The Witches (novel), Tony Ross, United Kingdom, Watership Down, William Mayne, Worzel Gummidge, Young adult fiction. Expand index (43 more) »

Active Training and Education Trust

Active Training and Education Trust (ATE) (a.k.a. ATE Superweeks) is a not-for-profit, educational trust, which provides residential holidays to children of a school age within the United Kingdom.

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Alan Garner

Alan Garner OBE (born 17 October 1934) is an English novelist best known for his children's fantasy novels and his retellings of traditional British folk tales.

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Allen Lane

Sir Allen Lane (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.

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Antonia Forest

Antonia Forest (26 May 1915 – 28 November 2003) was the pseudonym of Patricia Giulia Caulfield Kate Rubinstein, an English writer of children's novels whose real name was not made public during her lifetime.

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Artemis Fowl II

Artemis Fowl II is the title character of the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

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Ballet Shoes (novel)

Ballet Shoes: A Story of Three Children on the Stage is a children's novel by Noel Streatfeild, published by Dent in 1936.

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Barbara Euphan Todd

Barbara Euphan Todd (9 January 1890 – 2 February 1976) was an English writer well remembered for her ten books for children about a scarecrow called Worzel Gummidge.

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Barbara Sleigh

Barbara Grace de Riemer Sleigh (1906–1982) was an English children's writer and broadcaster, known best for her Carbonel series about a king of cats.

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Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann is a German multinational corporation based in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Book

A book is a series of pages assembled for easy portability and reading, as well as the composition contained in it.

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Book People

Book People is a discount bookseller based in Godalming, Surrey, UK.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Carbonel: The King of the Cats

Carbonel: the King of the Cats is a children's book by Barbara Sleigh, first published by Max Parrish in 1955, and in the US by Bobbs-Merrill, 1955.

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Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy (born 13 June 1962) is a British author of young adult fiction.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.

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Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl.

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Charlie Higson

Charles Murray "Charlie" Higson (born 3 July 1958) is an English actor, comedian, author, and former singer.

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Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams; it was published on October 15, 1952, by Harper & Brothers.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.

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Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg (born June 18, 1949) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books.

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Clive King

David Clive King (born 24 April 1924) is an English author best known for his children's book Stig of the Dump (1963).

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Country Life (magazine)

Country Life is a British weekly perfect-bound, glossy magazine, based in London at 110 Southwark Street (until March 2016 when it became based in Farnborough, Hampshire), and owned by Time Inc UK.

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Danny, the Champion of the World

Danny, the Champion of the World is a 1975 children's book by Roald Dahl.

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Doctor Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle.

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E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer and a world federalist.

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Eleanor Graham

Eleanor Graham (born 9 January 1896 in Walthamstow, England; died 8 March 1984 in London) was a book editor and children's book author.

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Eric Carle

Eric Carle (born June 25, 1929) is an American designer, illustrator, and writer of children's books.

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Eric Hill

Eric Gordon Hill (7 September 1927 – 6 June 2014) was an English author and illustrator of children's picture books, best known for his puppy character named Spot.

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Esio Trot

Esio Trot is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, published in 1990.

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Eve Garnett

Eve Garnett (9 January 1900 – 5 April 1991) was an English writer and illustrator.

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Fantastic Mr Fox

Fantastic Mr Fox is a children's novel written by British author Roald Dahl.

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Fighting Fantasy

Fighting Fantasy is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.

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Gamebook

A gamebook is a work of printed fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices.

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George's Marvellous Medicine

George's Marvellous Medicine (known as George's Marvelous Medicine in the US) is a book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

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Ian Livingstone

Ian Livingstone CBE (born 29 December 1949 is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. Along with Steve Jackson, he is the co-founder of a series of role-playing gamebooks, Fighting Fantasy, and the author of many books within that series. He is also one of the co-founders of prominent games company Games Workshop.

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Ian Serraillier

Ian Serraillier (24 September 1912 – 28 November 1994) was an English novelist and poet.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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James and the Giant Peach

James and the Giant Peach is a popular children's novel written in 1961 by British author Roald Dahl.

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Jan Pieńkowski

Jan Michał Pieńkowski (born 8 August 1936) is a Polish-British author of children's books—as illustrator, as writer, and as designer of movable books.

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Janet and Allan Ahlberg

Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994), née Janet Hall, and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lists for public libraries.

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Joan Aiken

Joan Delano Aiken MBE (4 September 1924 – 4 January 2004) was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels.

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Kaye Webb

Kaye Webb, MBE (26 January 1914 – 16 January 1996), was a British editor and publisher.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian-British singer and actress.

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Leon Garfield

Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction.

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List of largest book publishers of the United Kingdom

This is a list of largest UK trade book publishers, with some of their principal imprints, ranked by sales value, according to Nielsen BookScan.

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List of UK children's book publishers

List of UK children's book publishers.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is a series of eight children's books written by P. L. Travers and published over the period 1934 to 1988.

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Matilda (novel)

Matilda is a book by British writer Roald Dahl.

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Meg and Mog

Meg and Mog is a series of children’s books written by Helen Nicoll and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.

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Michael Morpurgo

Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo, (born Michael Andrew Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982).

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Mildred Hubble

Mildred Hubble is a major character in The Worst Witch children's book series by Jill Murphy.

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Noel Carrington

Noel Carrington (1895–1989) was an English book designer, editor, publisher, and the originator of Puffin Books.

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Noel Streatfeild

Mary Noel Streatfeild OBE (24 December 1895 –11 September 1986), was an English author, best known for children's books including the "Shoes" books, which were not a series.

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Norman Hunter (author)

Norman George Lorimer Hunter (23 November 1899 – 23 February 1995) was a British children's author, creator of Professor Branestawm.

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Pearson plc

Pearson plc is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House (PRH) is an American multinational publishing company formed in 2013 from the merger of Random House (owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann) and Penguin Group (owned by British publishing company Pearson PLC).

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Percy Jackson

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is a fictional character, the title character and narrator of Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

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Philippa Pearce

Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books.

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Professor Branestawm

Professor Branestawm is a series of thirteen books written by the English author Norman Hunter.

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Quentin Blake

Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, FRSL, RDI (born 16 December 1932) is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer.

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Richard Adams

Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016) was an English novelist and writer of the books Watership Down, Shardik and The Plague Dogs.

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Richard Egielski

Richard Egielski (born July 16, 1952 in New York City) is an American illustrator and writer, best known for illustrating children's picture books.

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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot.

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Robert T. Barrett

Robert Theodore Barrett (born May 13, 1949) is an American painter, illustrator, and professor of illustration at Brigham Young University.

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Rosemary Sutcliff

Rosemary Sutcliff (14 December 1920 – 23 July 1992) was an English novelist best known for children's books, especially historical fiction and retellings of myths and legends.

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Scarlett (Cassidy novel)

Scarlett is a 2006 novel by Cathy Cassidy.

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Social media

Social media are computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

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Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Milligan, (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was a British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.

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Spot (franchise)

Spot is a yellow puppy character created by Eric Hill, an English author and illustrator of children's picture books.

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Steve Jackson (British game designer)

Steve Jackson (born 20 May 1951) is a British game designer, writer, and game reviewer.

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Stig of the Dump

Stig of the Dump is a children's novel by Clive King, first published in the United Kingdom in 1963. It is regarded as a modern children's classic and is often read in schools. It was illustrated by Edward Ardizzone and has been twice adapted for television, in 1981 and in 2002. It was first broadcast as an adaptation on BBC Home Service for schools in November 1964, and later on the BBC series Blue Peter.

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The BFG

The BFG (short for "Big Friendly Giant") is a 1982 children's book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

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The Enormous Crocodile

The Enormous Crocodile is a 1978 children's story, written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

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The Family from One End Street

The Family from One End Street is a realistic English children's novel, written and illustrated by Eve Garnett and published by Frederick Muller in 1937.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a children's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis, published by Geoffrey Bles in 1950.

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The Magic Finger

The Magic Finger is a fantasy story written by Roald Dahl in 1962.

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The Silver Sword

The Silver Sword is a novel by Ian Serraillier, a children's classic, first published in the UK in 1956 by Jonathan Cape and then by Puffin Books in 1960.

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The Twits

The Twits is a humorous children's book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

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The Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by Eric Carle, first published by the World Publishing Company in 1969, later published by Penguin Putnam.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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The Witches (novel)

The Witches is a children's dark fantasy novel by the British writer Roald Dahl.

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Tony Ross

Tony Ross (born 10 August 1938) is a British illustrator and author of children's picture books.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Watership Down

Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972.

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William Mayne

William James Carter Mayne (16 March 1928 – 24 March 2010) was an English writer of children's fiction.

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Worzel Gummidge

Worzel Gummidge is a walking, talking scarecrow character in British children's fiction who originally appeared in a series of books by the English novelist Barbara Euphan Todd.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffin_Books

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