Books and magazines

Jackie Magazine was a girls' weekly magazine published by D.C. Thomson in the UK between 1964 and 1993. The popularity of the magazine was in no small part due to the somewhat controversial problem page called "Cathy and ...

My Mum and Dad bought me 'Haunted House' and 'Robot' both by Jan Pienkowski, sometime in the late 70s. As pop-up books go, they are works of art. I've never such intricate work in a pop-up book! There wasn't really ...

Anyone remember the Janet and John reading books at primary school (and some shops) in the '50's and 60's? They were softback about the size of the old school exercise books. If I remember correctly the yellow one was the first ...

I loved the Jennings series by Anthony Buckeridge.  hilarious stories set in a boys'  prep school in Sussex, Jennings and his friends were always getting into complicated situations, usually caused by Jennings's impetuosity, and having great difficulty extricating themselves.  There were frequent ...

Written by Ruby Feguson all about Jill and her pony Black Boy and her friend Anne. They were written in the late 50's and were a series as the girls grew up with horses. Sadly and typical of the era ...

Jinty was a weekly comic book and annual for girls from 1974 to 1981, when it merged with Tammy. I seem to remember a story about two tower blocks that lead into parallel worlds. Unlike its rivals, Misty, Jinty focussed ...

Becoming a teenager is never easy, but for anybody hitting adolescence from 1969 onwards there was suddenly an adult who understood!Reading American author Judy Blume’s books was almost a rite of passage for me and my friends at secondary school; ...

This was the original girls annual.An innocent, pre-to-early teen magazine/comic for girls in the mid 1960's. As part of the annual you could join the Red Rose club for a small fee and they sent you an enamelled rose badge. ...

I am not remotely embarrassed to admit that the reason I first started buying Just Seventeen magazine as a young teen was that I had a bit of a crush on the (then) young Phillip Schofield. One day he was ...