Puffin Picture Books

It’s strange to think that a children’s book about tank warfare started an eighty-year empire, but the success of the early Picture books led to the entire Puffin catalog.

Of special note here is PP116, which was not issued. Paxton Chadwick had nearly completed the book at the time of his untimely death. Thirty years later, the Penguin Collectors Society arranged for its completion and publication, capping off the series at long last.

#	Title	Author	Year
PP1	War on Land	James Holland	1940
PP2	War at Sea	James Holland	1940
PP3	War in the Air	James Gardner	1940
PP4	On the Farm	James Gardner	1940
PP5	A Book of Insects	James Holland	1941
PP6	Flowers of the Field and Hedgerow	Martin Rivers-Moore	1941
PP7	Animals of the Countryside	Anrid Johnson	1941
PP8	Great Deeds of the War	Ronald Davies	1941
PP9	Pond and River Life	Brynhild Parker	1941
PP10	A Book of Trains	W.J. Bassett-Lowke	1941
PP11	A Book of Ships	Laurence Dunn	1942
PP12	A Book of Rigamaroles	Enid Marx	1945
PP13	Hamish	Joanna Cannan	1944
PP14	Orlando’s Evening Out	Kathleen Hale	1944
PP15	Lo Cheng: The Who Wouldn’t Keep Still	Chiang Yee	1942
PP16	Village and Town	S.R. Badmin	1942
PP17	15 Nursery Rhymes	Clarke Hutton	1941
PP18	Animals of India	Arnrid Johnson	1942
PP19	Marvellou Models and Models to Make	W.J. Bassett-Lowke	1945
PP20	Marvelous Models	W.J. Bassett-Lowke	1947
PP21	Birds of the Village	RP.F. Millard	1944
PP22	The Battle of Britain	David Garnett	1941
PP23	A Book of Fables	Aesop	1942
PP24	U.S.A. – The Story of America	James Holland	1942
PP25	Alexander the Circus Pony	Phyllis Ginger	1943
PP26	Misha Learns English	Pearl Binder	1942
PP27	Orlando’s Home Life	Kathleen Hale	1942
PP28	Punch and Judy: An Acting Book	Clarke Hutton	1942
PP29	Animals of North America	Arnrid Johnson	1942
PP30	Butterflies in Britain	Richard Chopping	1943
PP31	Pantomime Stories	Hilary Stebbing	1943
PP32	Waterways of the World	W.J. Bassett-Lowke	1944
PP33	Contry Holiday	Margaret Scott-Brown	1944
PP34	Brer Rabbit	Joel Chandler Harris	1945
PP35	The Story of Louisa	Diana Ross	1944
PP36	The Story of Ming	Chiang Yee	1944
PP37	A History of the Countryside	Margaret & Alexander Potter	1944
PP38	About a Motor Car	Phyllis Ladyman	1946
PP39	Famous Ships	Frank Bowen	1946
PP40	Make Your Own Zoo 1	Trix	1945
PP41	Make Your Own Farm 1	Trix	1945
PP42	The Building of London	Margaret & Alexander Potter	1945
PP43	Our Horses	Lionel Edwards	1945
PP44	Wonders of Animal-Life	Erna Pinner	1945
PP45	Animals of Australia	Sheila Hawkins	1947
PP46	A Child’s Alphabet	Grace Gabler	1945
PP47	The Story of China	Tsui Chi	1945
PP48	A Book of Swimming	Janet Basset-Lowke	1945
PP49	The Magic of Coal	Peggy Hart	1945
PP50	The Story of Furniture	Gordon Russell	1947
PP51	Wonders of Sea Life	E.G. Boulenger	1947
PP52	Paper Birds	R.B. Talbot Kelly	1947
PP53	Fish and Fishing	Bernard Venables	1948
PP54	The Tale of Noah and the Flood	Clarke Hutton	1946
PP55	Extinct Animals	Hilary Stebbing	1946
PP56	Dogs	Maurice Wilson	1946
PP57	Woodworking for Children / Beginners	John Dumayne	1945
PP58	The Story of Plant Life	Isabel Alexander	1946
PP59	Our Cattle	Lionel Edwards	1948
PP60	Building a House	Richard Leacroft	1949
PP61	The Arabs	R.B. Serjeant	1947
PP62	Fireworks and Fetes	Alan St. H. Brock	1946
PP63	Living Pictures	John Maddison	1950
PP64	The Clothes We Wear	Jack Townsend	1947
PP65	Mountain and Moorland Birds	R.B. Talbot Kelly	1947
PP66	Insect Life	Arthur Smith	1950
PP67	About Maps	Peter Hood	1950
PP68	Zoo Birds	David Seth Smith	1951
PP69	Postage Stamp	L.N. & M. Williams	1950
PP70	Printer	Harold Curwen	1948
PP71	Pottery and its Making	John Thomas	1950
PP72	A Tea-Time Story (or) The Story of Tea	Anne Skibulits	1948
PP73	Zoo Animals	E.G. Boulenger	1948
PP74	Locomotives	W.J. Bassett-Lowke	1947
PP75	The Theatre at Work	James Cleaver	1947
PP76	English Fashion	Victor Ross	1947
PP77	Spelling Book	Grace Gabler	1948
PP78	Our Ponies	Allen W. Seaby	1949
PP79	The Story of Iron	J.B. Fortune	1948
PP80	Music Time	Prudence Hamelryk	1947
PP81	Wild Flowers	Paxton Chadwick	1949
PP82	Riding for Children	Henry Wynmalen	1948
PP83	Electrical Models from Odds and Ends	D.C. Gohm	1949
PP84	Animals on the Farm	Eileen Mayo	1951
PP85	Mitla and Lupe	Jose Sancha	1948
PP86	Airliners	John Stroud	1949
PP87	Early Man	Dina Dobson	1950
PP88	Sailing Ships	Archie White	1951
PP89	Signs and Symbols	G.E. Pallant Sidaway	1953
PP90	Birds of the Estuary	C.F. Tunnicliffe	1952
PP91	Mary Had a Little Lamb	H.A. Rey	1951
PP92	The Sky and Heavens	Peter Hood	1953
PP93	Pond Life	Paxton Chadwick	1952
PP94	How Planes Fly	Sydney E. Veale	1953
PP95	Sailing	Laurence Sandy	1953
PP96	Better Handwriting	George L. Thomson	1954
PP97	A Book of Armour	Patrick Nicolle	1954
PP98	Farm Crops in Britain	Sir George Stapledon	1955
PP99	A Story of a Thread of Cotton	Harry Ballam	1952
PP100	Everest is Climbed	Wilfrid Noyce	1954
PP101	The Building of Ancient Egypt	Helen Leacroft	1955
PP102	The Human Body	Cyril Bibby	1955
PP103	A Christmas Manger	John Harwood	1954
PP104	Binding Your Own Books	John Woodcock	1956
PP105	Wild Animals in Britain	Paxton Chadwick	1958
PP106	Bird Study in a Garden	E.A.R. Ennion	1958
PP107	The Yuletide Cottage	John Harwood	1955
PP108	Churches and Cathedrals	Helen Leacroft	1957
PP109	How to Play Cricket	Alf Grover	1957
PP110	A Counting Book	Grace Gabler	1957
PP111	Discovery of the Poles	Quintin Riley	1957
PP112	Puppets	Gordon Murray	1958
PP113	About Railways	Herbert Simon	1957
PP114	The Puffin Noah’s Ark	John Miles	1958
PP115	Butterflies	Arthur Smith	1961
PP116	Life Histories	Paxton Chadwick & Shiela Fisher	1996
PP117	The Puffin Book of Lettering	Tom Gourdie	1961
PP118	The Historic Houses of Great Britain	Richard Leacroft	1962
PP119	The Story of Bread	H.J. Deverson	1964
PP120	Seashore Life	Gillian Matthews	1965