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Hi Stig! Hello Worzel! Greetings Mrs Frisby! Lifelong bookaholic Lucy Mangan rediscovers her childhood - in Puffin's giant archiveThe other day I mentioned to my sister that I was planning to visit Penshurst Place in Kent for the first time. 'Oh yes,' she said. 'Dad and I went there once.' Without me! Can you believe the favouritism? 'And where was I,' I asked, on learning that their jaunts were weekly.'Where do you think you were?' she said. 'You were at home. Reading. We told you we were going every time and you never broke eye contact with Enid Blyton. Sometimes you'd wave goodbye as you turned a page.'I have racked my brains but I still do not remember them going. And now here, neatly stored on miles of shelving in the Penguin archive, are the reasons. Puffins. Not the excitable avian inhabitants of the Hebrides, but the books. Penguin invited me to spend the day here after an article I wrote hinted that it would be my Xanadu. These books are my memories. My entire childhood is on

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