Penguin Books - A Project
This project is all about Penguin book covers.
Nana and Grandpa Grundy have a large collection of Penguin books – Nana Grundy calls them orange Penguins because they all have an orange spine. I’m a bit obsessed with them. Not that I’ve actually read any of them; although I probably should and I probably will when I get around to it.
What fascinates me about them are their covers. The designs are really eye-catching. Nana told me that this was deliberate – the first orange Penguin was published in 1935 and they made the covers bright to get more people to buy them.
I’m organising the books by the decade in which they were published. I think that the earlier covers are better than the later ones but that’s just me. Have a scroll down the page and decide which you like the best. Clicking on each book will take you to a larger picture of the cover.
Nana and Grandpa are still collecting Penguin books; that’s one of the reasons Nana spends so much of her time haunting the town’s charity shops (‘Everyone needs a hobby, Emmabella,’ she said), so I’ll be adding to this project when I get the chance.
Nana and Grandpa Grundy have a large collection of Penguin books – Nana Grundy calls them orange Penguins because they all have an orange spine. I’m a bit obsessed with them. Not that I’ve actually read any of them; although I probably should and I probably will when I get around to it.
What fascinates me about them are their covers. The designs are really eye-catching. Nana told me that this was deliberate – the first orange Penguin was published in 1935 and they made the covers bright to get more people to buy them.
I’m organising the books by the decade in which they were published. I think that the earlier covers are better than the later ones but that’s just me. Have a scroll down the page and decide which you like the best. Clicking on each book will take you to a larger picture of the cover.
Nana and Grandpa are still collecting Penguin books; that’s one of the reasons Nana spends so much of her time haunting the town’s charity shops (‘Everyone needs a hobby, Emmabella,’ she said), so I’ll be adding to this project when I get the chance.
By the way, Nana and Grandpa keep their Penguin books in their downstairs loo. Grandpa Grundy built special book shelves for them. I’m not entirely convinced that this is the most hygienic place to store books but it’s their house so I suppose they can do what they like.
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Other Penguin Books (also belonging to Nana and Grandpa Grundy)
The Penguin Poets
