A Puffin Book
- stories that last a lifetime Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo A Puffin Book There are 20 titles to collect in the series listed below all with exciting new covers & fun-filled endnotes THE CAY is a tense & compulsive survival story by Theodore Taylor of a young boy & an old man adrift on the ocean then marooned on a tiny deserted island It is also a fascinating study of the relationship between Phillip white American & influenced by his mother's prejudices & the black man upon whom Phillip's life depends Theodore Taylor was born in 1921 in North Carolina USA The idea for THE CAY his first novel for children came when he was researching an adult bookabout German submarine attacks in the Second World War THE CAY was first published in 1969 & has won many literary awards Theodore Taylor died in 2006 Also available in A Puffin Book CHARLOTTE'S WEB & BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian CHARLOTTE'S WEB STUART LITTLE & THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E B White THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D Taylor A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden MRS FRISBY & THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O' Brien A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L' Engle THE CAY by Theodore Taylor TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams SMITH by Leon Garfield THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende ANNIE by Thomas Meehan THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett