Puffin away
When your younger sibling does something impressive it can provoke not just pride but also jealousy. So it is for us with Puffin, for the brand new Puffin website launched yesterday and it's typically precocious. All shiny-shiny and oh-so-cute with mini-games and author interviews and a newsletter and a brand new blog – everything you could want from the publisher of some of the best kids' books, old and new, there have ever been.
So we will watch carefully and with familial pride as they grow and develop, wishing them all the best and singing their praises to all who'll listen. And with just enough jealousy to want to dig out embarrassing pictures to remind them they weren't always so darn adorable.
Alan
Copywriter
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Thank you kindly Copywriter Penguin, we are feeling rather proud here at Puffin HQ today. And not only do we have a shiny dazzling new site, we celebrated with cake. Of course.
Posted by: Copywriter Puffin | February 28, 2008 at 05:02 PM
You think that looks bad, you should see what our intranet used to look like... (actually, hold on, it wasn't that different)
Intranet Editor
Posted by: Alice B | February 28, 2008 at 05:03 PM
I suppose in the metaphor, the Intranet is the monstrous child we keep locked up in the basement for fear it will get out and terrify the local populace (even though we love it dearly).
Posted by: Alan | February 28, 2008 at 05:41 PM
Speaking as an ex-Penguin employee, I'd just like to say that I have nothing but fond memories of Magnet - so have to protest at your ' monstrous child locked in the basement' image. At the risk of really labouring the metaphor, I would say that to me Magnet is more of a much-loved relative that I don't get to see anymore since moving abroad.
Posted by: Ex-Penguin | February 28, 2008 at 06:13 PM
I couldn't agree more. Our lovely Intranet is like a beloved infant, playful sibling and benevolent auntie all rolled into one (this metaphor has SO much mileage!)
Posted by: Old Girl | February 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM
YAY! Congrats everyone! I remember when this project was started. You all have done a real bang up job. Really captured everything that you set out to. Absolutely the friendliest site out there.
Posted by: Ex-Puffin | February 29, 2008 at 02:51 PM
I am reading Dick King-Smith's "The Ghost at Codlin Castle and Other Stories".
My niece collected it from the Nigeria LNG School Library in the Nigeria LNG Residential Estate on Bonny Island, in the Niger Delta of Nigeria.
I have noted a sentence on page 18 of the PUFFIN edition.
"Then why are you holding your head?" said Biffy.
I would have used "asked" and not "said", because it was a question.
"Then why are you holding your head?" asked Biffy.
What do you think?
Posted by: Orikinla Osinachi | March 03, 2008 at 05:02 PM