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They have seven children, so life is hard, but they are a happy family PS 8: The Microbe Man: Eleanor Doorly: Robert Gibbings: 1943: A life of Louis Pasteur for children PS 9: The Puffin Puzzle Book: W. E. Gladstone: William Grimmond: 1944: The first Puffin Story Book to have an illustrated cover unique to itself. PS 10: Tents in Mongolia ...
This he expanded as The Flattered Flying Fish and Other Poems (1962). A selection of his verse appeared in A Puffin Quartet of Poets (1958). [5] For Rieu himself, his poems were a sideline, aimed mainly at children. [8] Rieu wrote the short story "Pudding Law: A Nightmare", included in The Great Book for Girls, published by Oxford University Press.
In 1996, Penguin Books published as a paperback A Complete Annotated Listing of Penguin Classics and Twentieth-Century Classics (ISBN 0-14-771090-1). This article covers editions in the series: black label (1970s), colour-coded spines (1980s), the most recent editions (2000s), and Little Clothbound Classics Series (2020s).
Penguin Popular Classics, issued in 1994, are paperback editions of texts under the Classics imprints. They were created as a response to Wordsworth Classics , a series of very cheap reprints which imitated Penguin in using black as its signature colour. [ 1 ]
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.
Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918–1960) [ edit ] The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse is a poetry anthology first published in 1950, and edited by Kenneth Allott , generally restricted to British poets ( T. S. Eliot , Sylvia Plath and some Irish poets were included).
They issued them with library bindings in 1977. In most cases, the latest date printed anywhere in the book was from the early 1940s, so the Grosset & Dunlap editions are today often mistaken for being older than they are. In the 1980s, Little, Brown, owned by Penguin, canceled their permission for Grosset & Dunlap to publish the Burgess books.
The Mersey Sound is number 10 in a series of slim paperbacks originally published in the 1960s by Penguin in a series called Penguin Modern Poets. Each book assembled work by three compatible poets. Number 6, for example, contained poems by George MacBeth, Edward Lucie-Smith and Jack Clemo. The other books in the series were not given a ...