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  2. List of early Puffin Story Books - Wikipedia

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    Josiah Ruggles works for Otwell council as a dustman, and his wife Rosie takes in washing. 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

  3. E. V. Rieu - Wikipedia

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    Rieu is less known for his children's verse, Cuckoo Calling: a book of verse for youthful people (1933). 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]

  4. Puffin Books - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Wikipedia

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    "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. [citation needed] The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy ...

  6. And Tango Makes Three - Wikipedia

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    And Tango Makes Three is a children's book written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole which was published in 2005. The book tells the story of two male penguins, Roy and Silo, who create a family together.

  7. List of fictional penguins - Wikipedia

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    Children's book about a housepainter who ends up with a flock of penguins. Evil emperor penguin Evil emperor penguin: Laura Ellen Anderson: Children's book series about an evil emperor penguin and his sidekicks. Whiteblack Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World: H. A. Rey and Margret Rey: Children's book about a travelling penguin Roy and Silo

  8. Mr. Popper's Penguins - Wikipedia

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    Mr. Popper's Penguins is a children's book written by Richard and Florence Atwater, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, originally published in 1938. It tells the story of a poor house painter named Mr. Popper and his family, who live in the small town of Stillwater in the 1930s.

  9. Max Harris (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Harris thought the poems brilliant and published them with some fanfare in Angry Penguins. [1] The poems were controversial but well received. However, police in South Australia interpreted some lines in the poetry as lewd (one poem used the word "incestuous") [2] and Harris was charged with obscenity.