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March 07, 2008

AHAAARRRRGH me hearties.  I can’t help it - every time I see/hear/think about a pirate I have to say it.  Yesterday, though, I was in the company of more than just a pirate - it was Long John Silver! Even better still - he was with Oliver Twist, Alice (from Wonderland) AND the Wicked Witch of the West? Why?  Because yesterday was World Book Day and the day we launched the fabulous new Puffin Classics. 

It wasn’t just any old book launch with snooty posh people who drink sherry and think they’ve read all the greats of literature; it was a journey to places of magic and wonderment.  We took a swashbuckling journey with a peg-leg pirate, riddled with a Mad Hatter at a very strange tea party, dodged crooks and thieves in the backstreets of Victorian London and met a lion, a tinman and a scarecrow all on the same page. 

I have to admit, I never thought classics had so much going for them - I mean, weren’t they all written hundreds of years ago by people who had no idea about real life and who sat around all day in dusty rooms?  Essentially, yes.  But, my theory is that because they weren’t distracted by modern technology like I-pods, mobile phones, the internet and TV, they properly lost themselves in other worlds, writing some of the most imaginative stories around.  Cheers to Charlie Dickens, Robbie Louis Stevenson, Lou Lou May Alcott and the rest! 

Reetu Kabra
Press Officer

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