Puffin Books
Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.[1] The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
Parent company
Penguin Young Readers Group (Penguin Random House)
2 April 1940
Francesca Dow (managing director)
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Puffin Post[edit]
Puffin Post was a children's books magazine published by Puffin Books, and the magazine of the Puffin Club.[15] It was launched in 1967 by Kaye Webb, editor of Puffin Books.[15] It declined after Webb retired in 1982, but was relaunched in 2009 through the bookseller The Book People as a bi-monthly magazine.[15] The magazine was discontinued again with the November 2012 issue.[15]
The magazine contained a mix of stories, jokes, interviews, competitions and quizzes, and reader contributions.[15] At its height, it had more than 200,000 readers.[15] Prior to 1982, contributors to the magazine included well-known authors such as Alan Garner, Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Leon Garfield and Spike Milligan.[15] After the 2009 re-launch, contributors included Charlie Higson, Cathy Cassidy and Michael Morpurgo.[15]