Kaye Webb and Puffin books

I have just read So much to tell you which is the biography of Kaye Webb, written by Valerie Grove to celebrate 70 years of Puffin Books. I found it interesting, readable, informative, inspiring, and sad.

Kaye was the influential editor and driving force behind Puffin Books during the "golden age" of children's literature in the UK in the 1960s / 1970s, establishing the Puffin Club, Puffin Post as well as Puffin holidays and events which influenced thousands of children's reading and writing lives, and participation in the children's literature community...

Kaye was married three times, her third husband was artist Ronald Searle (of St Trinian's fame), survivor of Changi... Kaye said that "My business life has worked out beautifully. My private life has been the reverse."

Here are a couple of reviews :
http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=So_Much_To_Tell_by_Valerie_Grove
http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/so-much-to-tell-by-valerie-grove/

Also recently published is Puffin by Design - 70 Years of Imagination (1940 - 2010)

Here is a synopsis from the Penguin website, including a short video about shooting the cover
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141326146,00.html

and here is Kate De Goldi talking about it with Kim Hill :

sat-20100814-1145-Childrens_Books_with_Kate_De_Goldi_Puffins-048.mp3

The book which Kate refers to is The child that books built by Francis Spufford.