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The House in Norham Gardens Book Sites, Penguin Random House, Top Books, Classic Kids, Penguin Books, Children's Literature, First Novel, Book Cover Art, Vintage Children's Books

No.40 Norham Gardens, Oxford, is the home of Clare Mayfield, her two aged aunts and two lodgers. The house is a huge Victorian monstrosity, with rooms all full of old furniture, old papers, old clothes, memorabilia - it is like a living museum. Clare discovers in a junk room the vividly painted shield which her great-grandfather, an eminent anthropologist, had brought back from New Guinea. She becomes obsessed with its past and determined to find out more about its strange tribal origins…

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ART & ARTISTS: Puffin Books - part 2 Nostalgic Books, Ronald Searle, Little Library, Song Book, Penguin Books, Vintage Children's Books, Book Cover Art, Picture Books, Typography Inspiration

Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Sir Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was hatched in 1939 when Noel Carrington, at the time an editor for Country Life books, met him and proposed a series of children's non-fiction picture books, inspired by the brightly coloured lithographed books mass-produced at the time for Soviet children. Lane saw the potential, and the first of the picture book series were published the following year. The name "Puffin" was a natural companion to…

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