Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Sign in
Search jobs
Search
The Guardian - Back to homeThe Guardian

Puffin

April 2023

  • Tourists on Skomer Island

    Scores of tourists arrive at Skomer thanks to Attenborough effect

    West Wales island home to tens of thousands of puffins and shearwaters is a star of the veteran broadcaster’s new BBC series Wild Isles

February 2023

  • Roald Dahl

    Rishi Sunak joins criticism of changes to Roald Dahl books

    No 10 says ‘we shouldn’t gobblefunk’ with words, as Philip Pullman suggests work be left to go out of print

October 2017

  • A page from Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai, illustrated by Kerascoët.

    Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai review – an enchantingly light touch

    The human rights campaigner strikes just the right balance in her first picture book, which relates the story of her childhood with a magical optimism

July 2016

  • The Peppermint Pig

    Children's books
    The first lines of Puffin classics – in pictures

    From Nina Bawden’s Peppermint Pig to Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea, see the beautiful new covers of these re-issued Puffin classic children’s books – and read the immortal first lines

October 2015

  • Barack Obama with Marilynne Robinson

    Obama is right: reading is what connects us to others – even a French puffin

    Linda Grant
    On this I agree with the president – fiction is what makes us comfortable with a complicated world. So why so many of us go off it in the end?

March 2015

  • Anne of Green Gables

    Children's books
    The most intriguing first lines in Puffin classics – in pictures

    From Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland to JM Barrie’s Peter Pan to LM Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, the first lines of these Puffin classics are famous in their own right. But how many have you read and how many do you know?

July 2014

  • Puffin trail

    Children's books
    From Charlotte's Web to Stig of the Dump - A Puffin Book quiz

    Know your Tarka from your Wilbur? Test your skills in a quiz to celebrate the republishing of 20 timeless Puffin Book classics from Watership Down to Charlotte's Web

June 2013

  • Vicky Mills cover design for Wind in the Willows

    Puffin Design Award 2013 - in pictures

    This year's Puffin Children's Design Award set students the task of coming up with a new cover for one of the best-loved children's books, The Wind in the Willows. Follow the progress of Toad through the 10 shortlisted designs

December 2012

  • Puffin Post

    Puffin Post to become extinct

    Penguin won't be reviving much-loved children's magazine that has struggled to stay relevant and cost-effective in internet era

October 2010

  • Artists and designers have redesigned cover's for Penguin books

    Puffin Designer Classics: look at the covers and bid for a full set

    To celebrate Puffin's 70th anniversary, six designers and artists have produced editions of their favourite Puffins. A complete set is being auctioned on eBay in aid of the Guardian's Ugandan development project, Katine.

August 2010

  • Detail of letter from Raymond Briggs to Kaye Webb

    Pages from the chief Puffin's archive

    Kaye Webb spent almost 20 years as editor of Puffin books, where she launched a picture-book imprint, founded the Puffin club and worked with authors such as Quentin Blake, Jill Murphy and Raymond Briggs. Here we publish a selection of letters from her personal archive, now held at Seven Stories in Newcastle upon Tyne, where an exhibition celebrating 70 years of Puffin books runs until Sunday 26 June

June 2010

  • Michelle Magorian

    Books blog
    Puffin of Puffins? Why, Goodnight Mister Tom of course

  • Eoin Colfer, novelist and playwright, famous author of Artemis Fowl

    Artemis Fowl voted best-ever Puffin

  • Goodnight Mister Tom

    Hay festival 2010: Goodnight Mister Tom voted favourite Puffin of all time

  • A selection of Puffin books

    Children's books
    The pick of the Puffins

May 2010

  • Lucy Mangan, books

    Lucy Mangan's weekend column
    Lucy Mangan: Stig, Charlotte, Charlie, Mister Tom and me

    Seventy years of publishing classic children's books – but which should be the Puffin of Puffins?

  • So Much to Tell by Valerie Grove

    Puffin editor Kaye Webb opened the world of books to a generation of children. This jaunty account does her life justice, writes Rachel Cooke

    • A life in ...
      Kaye Webb: Queen of the Puffineers

    • Children's books
      Puffin's 70 best books for children

    • Puffin marks 70 years by celebrating best ever books

About 28 results for Puffin
12
Explore more on these topics
  翻译：