It's been a long while since I posted anything Puffin Club related on the blog, but here's another four quarterly covers from the adorable Puffin Post, graphics by the wonderful New Zealand artist Jill McDonald. There is very scarce information about her work or the Puffin Club on the Internet, but since I last posted the club has actually been resurrected for a new generation - www.puffinpost.co.uk. Article on the launch from last September - TimesOnline.
As for us older members who remember the heyday of the club during Kaye Webb's editorship, if you would like to see more lovely covers and other illustrative ephemera, you must have a look at the Puffin Club Archive blog of Thin Puffin, who is posting a lot of great scanned images of all things Puffin Club.
This should take a few people back - Vol 1, no 1 of the Puffin Post from 1967. If you joined the Puffin Club you would get a Puffin Post once a quarter - something very special to receive through the letter box. On the back cover - some of the latest puffin books published, inside - articles, stories, reviews, competitions, cartoons and illustrations, & general food for the imagination.
The Puffin Club was founded by the late Kaye Webb, editor of Puffin Books from 1961 to 1979, who did a wonderful job of making good quality, affordable childrens books accessible to the post-war generations. (Info found on SevenStories - the centre for children's books, now a missing link! The official Puffin site is about the only source of info I can find)
Here are the next three from 1967. All the drawings are by Jill McDonald, who drew many of the covers.
