Wishing all PAN Fans a Happy New Year and successful book hunting.
This weeks random author is Carol Beach York, (21/01/1928 to 26/04/2013) an American of 36 juvenile novels. She came from Chicago, Illinois and is best known for novels in the mystery/suspense genre, and for the Butterfield Square Series. If you know of any more than the five titles I have that were published by Piccolo please let me know. The covers are all by Nancy Petley-Jones, daughter of the Canadian artist Llewellyn Petley-Jones. Nancy was born in 1953 and grew up in Richmond and graduated from Kingston University in 1976 with a degree in Graphic Design, specialising in illustration.
While sort out books I found I had two copies of ‘Heroes & Monsters’ by James Reeves with a cover by Sandy Nightingale. I wondered why two copies and then realised one was a Piccolo and the other a Piper, both children’s imprints from PAN. There are only two years between edition but the price has gone up from £2.50 to £3.50! Sandy is one half of Night & Day along with Gary Day-Ellison who was one time art director at PAN and has been mentioned in previous blogs especially regarding his involvement with Picador.