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  • The meeting has been called by Carl Rosenstein, the Puffin's Director.

    Roslyn Bernstein: Bye Bye BID? SoHo Fights Back Roslyn Bernstein 2011

  • If Puffin's marketing department had tried to invent the ideal author profile to appeal to the difficult early-teenage-boy demographic, they couldn't have improved on Alex Scarrow.

    'TimeRiders' Author Alex Scarrow Wants Books To Be 'Absolute Cocaine' For Kids 2010

  • If Puffin's marketing department had tried to invent the ideal author profile to appeal to the difficult early-teenage-boy demographic, they couldn't have improved on Alex Scarrow.

    'TimeRiders' Author Alex Scarrow Wants Books To Be 'Absolute Cocaine' For Kids 2010

  • New titles are always "eagerly anticipated", with Fowl's inclusion in Puffin's 70th birthday celebrations showing "a big upturn in sales in the last couple of months as new readers discover the series".

    Eoin Colfer to bid farewell to Artemis Fowl 2010

  • The Pick of the Week is Puffin's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula by Gary Reed and Becky Cloonan, in a kid-friendly manga-sized black & white volume.

    Archive 2006-03-01 David S. Carter 2006

  • The Pick of the Week is Puffin's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula by Gary Reed and Becky Cloonan, in a kid-friendly manga-sized black & white volume.

    New This Week: March 15, 2006 David S. Carter 2006

  • It was followed almost immediately afterwards by the _Puffin's_ flying jib-boom.

    Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

  • But it was too late, for a moment afterwards the _Puffin's_ flying jib-boom slid neatly through the very centre of the matting sail on the junk's mizzen mast.

    Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

  • No wonder the _Puffin's_ were not pleased at their future prospects, for the milk of human kindness evidently did not enter into the composition of their new commanding officer.

    Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

  • In fact, the _Puffin's_ bones would have been there to this day if she had not been steaming at her leisurely, economical speed of 7 1/2 knots, and it was only by sheer good luck, and with the assistance of salvage tugs and appliances from Hong-Kong, that she was ever got off at all.

    Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

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