Puffin penguin series#
3.30pm-4.30pm: 'Meet and greet' session with panelists and other contributors, including a chance to examine specific series and buy books from the Puffin Bookstall.2.30pm-3.30pm: General panel discussion on the making of a Puffin book and how it has changed over 70 years.Academics and other Puffin 'experts' will be on hand during this time to answer questions and talk about Puffin, including Puffin Picture Books (Joe Pearson), Porpoise Books (Steve Hare), Peacock Books (Ika Willis), Puffin Story Books (Steve Hare).11.00am-11.30am: Noel Carrington and Puffin in the 1940s.10.30am-11.00am: Welcome and introduction.After lunch (which is provided), there will also be a panel discussion on the process of making a Puffin book and how this has changed over its 70-year history.
Puffin penguin archive#
Stephen Harper, the Conservative leader at the time, apologized for what he considered a “tasteless” and “inappropriate” ad.A day of presentations and lectures on Puffin Booksįollowing last year’s Penguin Readers’ Day, the Penguin Archive Project have collaborated with the Penguin Collectors’ Society to organise this year’s Puffin Study Day.Ĭelebrating 70 years of Puffin books in 2010, the Puffin Study Day is hosted by Phil Baines – Professor of Typography at Central Saint Martins, London, and author of ‘Penguin by Design’ (2005) and the recently published ‘Puffin by Design’ (2010) – and will include a number of presentations from authors, designers, academics and editors covering the history of the UK’s best loved children’s publisher. The Conservatives tried to capitalize on the comments in a short-lived campaign ad early in the 2008 election campaign: an Internet ad that showed a puffin pooping on the shoulder of then-Liberal leader Stephane Dion. “This seems to me a symbol for what our party should be.” They hide their excrement.… They flap their wings very hard and they work like hell,” Ignatieff said at the time. John’s that year, suggested aloud that it become the party’s official symbol.
In 2007, deputy Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, who apparently became enamoured of the “noble” puffin during a caucus retreat in St. It’s not the first time the federal Liberals have run afoul of the industrious little creature. “It was someone in her office who obviously needs to renew her glasses prescription,” said Marie-Pascale Desrosiers. “Oops! Let’s try this again,” read the tweet.Ī spokeswoman in McKenna’s office blamed the mixup on a squinty-eyed staffer. Within about half an hour of the post, McKenna — or someone in her office — caught the error and sent a new tweet, this time with a short video of actual penguins attached. Penguins, on the other hand, live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with the exception of the Galapagos penguin and those held captive in zoos. Puffins, with their red and black beaks and orange feet and legs, are found primarily in the north, notably Newfoundland and Labrador. “You know puffins aren’t penguins, right?” came one response. Problem is, those weren’t penguins in the video, but puffins — the squat, distinctive-looking seabirds that make their homes on islands and coastlines in the north Pacific and Atlantic oceans. OTTAWA — What, some Canadians are wondering, has the Liberal government’s environment minister been puffin?Ĭatherine McKenna was trying to mark World Penguin Day with a simple tweet accompanied by a cute video of penguins frolicking in the wild.
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