List of early Puffin Story Books

This is a complete list of the 149 Puffin Story Books published for children from 1941 to 1960 by Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, England.

Introductory remarks

• Brief information about the content of the books is contained in the notes, where it is available. However, the content of some books is self-explanatory as in the case of biographies and books of poems by R.L. Stevenson (PS 22), Hilaire Belloc (PS 67) and Walter de la Mare (PS 70).
• The sequence of PS numbers does not always coincide with the sequence of dates of publication. For example, Fell Farm Holiday by Marjorie Lloyd was first published in 1951 but its PS no. is 54 so that it appears among the sequence of books published in 1949. The discrepancy between PS nos and publication dates is presumably because some books take longer than others to prepare for publication. Fell Farm Holiday was in fact commissioned in 1947 though it didn't appear till 1951.[1]

1941–1945

1946–1949

1950–1955

1956–1960

Sources

• Library catalogues such as the British Library, World Catalogue, National Library of Scotland, Open Library etc.
• Bookselling websites such as Amazon, abebooks, ebay
• Phil Baines, Puffin by Design: 70 Years of Imagination 1940–2010, London: Allen Lane, 2010.
• Basic list of Puffin books till the 1960s to be found in this checklist: http://penguinchecklist.wordpress.com/puffin-books-pre-isbn Accessed 2012-06-23
• Richard Williams, PUFFIN STORY BOOKS, PS 1 - PS 148, 1941–1960, British Paperback Checklist No. 33, 2010. This checklist contains valuations, publisher information, names of illustrators, and alphabetic lists of books, authors and illustrators. Available at http://www.abebooks.com/richard-sylvanus-williams-1976-north-lincolnshire/465871/sf Accessed 2014-07-15