Puffin Post ! anyone remember...

[MaryAnnSingleton]

I joined the Puffin club as a girl - we got fab magazines all about books and a plastic folder to keep them in !

I so wish I'd kept my puffin posts - I'd love to see them again.

Hi. Just seen some Puffin Posts on ebay.

Wow blast from the past.
margoand gerry- I had those 'From the library of..' stickers too and was very excited.
Gosh what an innocent age; can't imagine my dc getting excited about such things- from Puffin Club to Club Penguin.

I was a member, along with my brother and sister and I remember (and must still have in some books) the "from the library of" stickers.

I remember we received a magazine and badges but apart from that, my only memory is going to some Puffin Club convention in London where you could meet authors and I met an elderly woman whose name escapes me but she wrote stories about a little old lady who lived with her cats. Anyone got a clue which books I am talking about?

Hello all of you with Puffin Post nostalgia: I'm reviving this thread because they're re-launching Puffin Post!

Hurrah!

Can't stay online now, but wanted to share the news...

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Puffin Post
Fab news

Jut wanted to thank people for this thread - I LOVED puffin Post as a child and thanks to you all have just bought it for ds for Christmas! Am inordinately excited...

Ahhhhh yes Puffin Post - my big sister subscribed and I was in the magazine for the younger readers - was it called The Egg??

Oh goody. I thought I was alone and nobody cared about it except me.

hurrah - thank you for the link, I saw this in the Bookseller and it implied that the pre-launch offer was going to be via the Book People's mailing list only (which I'm on too, I'm just very impatient).

omg i remember puffin post

errr, forget that. of course i'm only twentysomething

I loved Puffin Post too! And I was a member.

Now here is a real test. Young Elizabethan, anyone?

wahey!

I once one a competition in Puffin Post- drew a picture of my family and won a HUGE box of pens, crayons, pencils and art materials.

Dd will be getting a subscription.

Remember Fat Puffin anyone?
I had loads of fat puffin footprints from a Christmas Party in Ilkley where we met William Mayne - I stuck them all round my bedroom!

We all belonged to Puffin club, but then most of the best children's books were Puffins then. We went to the summer events (fab, full of loads and loads of kids doing very educational things and having a whale of a time) I also went on a Colony Holiday, and it really was fab (and I was the sort of kid who always had her nose in a book because it was safe there). I never won anything though My big sister did however she was actually quite artistic...

I can't see how the worldwide mark up can be justified though. I might ask my mum to subscribe for the children and then send it on to us though.

Wow. DS is only 16 months old though, think I might have to subscribe for myself!

I also had a subscription for some years to an American children's book magazine called Cricket which was wonderful (think initially it was in the UK as well).

Oooh! Puffin Club. Me and my brother were members. We both won something - I got a puffin chess set and book (still can't play chess to save my life ) but can't remember what won it!
We went to a Puffin Club event once - all v arty and crafty, and I met the illustrator Jan Pienowski who signed my Joan Aitken book with a little silouette mouse! Still treasure it.

Ah...Fat Puffin! /nostalgia.