Invitation to party with a Puffin.
Puffin Books – the children's book part of publisher Penguin, has reached the grand old age of 70, and is still turning out the most fantastic kids' stories. There are lots of ways you can join in the Puffin party, but why not start by entering our competition to win exclusive Puffin prizes – just click on any book cover to find out more!
Thanks to all of you who voted for your Puffin of Puffins to mark the 70th anniversary of Puffin and the relaunch of the Puffin Modern Classics. Over 10000 people voted and Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl series with 68% of the vote was the clear winner with in second place, Roald Dahl with 13%.
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Puffin 70th Anniversary
Amazingly the Puffin imprint is 70 this year. It has always produced some of the best children’s books around. To celebrate its birthday it has chosen it's favourite Puffin book of each decade (see Puffin Modern Classics) and created a new range of even better value books called ‘Pocket Money Puffins’. Just Click on a tab to find out more and don’t forget to enter the free prize draw.
Pocket Money Puffins
The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog (Puffin Modern Classics)
Jeremy Strong
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1990 - 1999 Featuring a boy, an extremely fast family pet dog and a bet, this is very definitely laugh-out-loud funny and chock full of action and adventure during what might otherwise have been a rather boring...
Featured in: 7+ readers | 9+ readers | Children's Classics
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Jeremy Strong
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1990 - 1999 Featuring a boy, an extremely fast family pet dog and a bet, this is very definitely laugh-out-loud funny and chock full of action and adventure during what might otherwise have been a rather boring...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Price: £5.24- Saving £1.75 (25%)
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Stig Of The Dump (Puffin Modern Classics)
Clive King
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1960 - 1969 Published over 45 years ago and yet as relevant today as it was then. This is a book that will captivate the imagination of a 7 or 8 year old – in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Clive King
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1960 - 1969 Published over 45 years ago and yet as relevant today as it was then. This is a book that will captivate the imagination of a 7 or 8 year old – in...
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Goodnight Mister Tom (Puffin Modern Classics)
Michelle Magorian
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1980 - 1989 A wonderful debut novel from an author who is now widely acknowledged as one of the great children’s novelists of our time. A storyline that will pull on the heartstrings more than...
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Michelle Magorian
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1980 - 1989 A wonderful debut novel from an author who is now widely acknowledged as one of the great children’s novelists of our time. A storyline that will pull on the heartstrings more than...
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Family From One End Street (Puffin Modern Classics)
Eve Garnett
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1940 - 1949 - reviewed by Jacqueline Wilson. This book also won the Carnegie Medal in 1937. When I re-read this down-to-earth, charming adventure...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Eve Garnett
A World Book Day 'Recommended Read' for 2011. Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1940 - 1949 - reviewed by Jacqueline Wilson. This book also won the Carnegie Medal in 1937. When I re-read this down-to-earth, charming adventure...
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Charlotte's Web (Puffin Modern Classics)
E B White
David Almond, September 2011 Guest Editor, on Charlotte's Web: "It’s the story of a girl, a pig and a spider. It takes place on a barn, a farm, and a country fair. It shows the gorgeousness of life, the imminence...
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E B White
David Almond, September 2011 Guest Editor, on Charlotte's Web: "It’s the story of a girl, a pig and a spider. It takes place on a barn, a farm, and a country fair. It shows the gorgeousness of life, the imminence...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Puffin Modern Classics)
Roald Dahl
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1970 - 1979 A book that requires no introduction as it is probably Dahl’s best-known and most read creation and deservedly so. The secretive and magical world of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory is revealed to...
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Roald Dahl
Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 1970 - 1979 A book that requires no introduction as it is probably Dahl’s best-known and most read creation and deservedly so. The secretive and magical world of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory is revealed to...
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Artemis Fowl: Book 1 (Puffin Modern Classics)
Eoin Colfer
Winner of the Puffin of Puffins. Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 2000 - 2009. Although only twelve years old, Artemis Fowl is already famous as a criminal master-mind. But, when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechaun unit in...
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Eoin Colfer
Winner of the Puffin of Puffins. Chosen as the Puffin Modern Classic 2000 - 2009. Although only twelve years old, Artemis Fowl is already famous as a criminal master-mind. But, when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrechaun unit in...
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We Want to be on the Telly: A Pocket Money Puffin
Jeremy Strong
Hilarious fun which will entertain all children who find their parents embarrassing. Heathrow (born in the Arrivals area at the famous airport) tells the story of struggling with parents who are determined to find fame and be on telly. Every...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
Jeremy Strong
Hilarious fun which will entertain all children who find their parents embarrassing. Heathrow (born in the Arrivals area at the famous airport) tells the story of struggling with parents who are determined to find fame and be on telly. Every...
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Virtual Kombat: A Pocket Money Puffin
Chris Bradford
Gripping action from start to finish in this tightly told futuristic story about a world in which the power of a game reaches far off the screen and into real life. After the virus has wiped out all the adults,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
Chris Bradford
Gripping action from start to finish in this tightly told futuristic story about a world in which the power of a game reaches far off the screen and into real life. After the virus has wiped out all the adults,...
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Vamoose! A Pocket Money Puffin
Meg Rosoff
Prize-winning author Meg Rosoff’s Vamoose!, a brilliant black comedy on the ups and downs of having any new baby but especially one who is different, is a gem. When a teen mum gives birth to a moose she and her...
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Meg Rosoff
Prize-winning author Meg Rosoff’s Vamoose!, a brilliant black comedy on the ups and downs of having any new baby but especially one who is different, is a gem. When a teen mum gives birth to a moose she and her...
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