{"id":17923,"date":"2025-12-29T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=17923"},"modified":"2025-12-29T07:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:45:01","slug":"happy-new-year-carol-beach-york-and-heroes-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2025\/12\/29\/happy-new-year-carol-beach-york-and-heroes-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year, Carol Beach York and &#8216;Heroes &#038; Monsters&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"371\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026.jpg 371w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2026-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wishing all PAN Fans a Happy New Year and successful book hunting.<\/span><\/h5>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This weeks random author is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Piccolo\/York.htm\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Carol Beach York<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, (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\u00a0 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.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While sort out books I found I had two copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2025\/December\/Heroes.htm\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Heroes &amp; Monsters&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> 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&#8217;s imprints from PAN. There are only two years between edition but the price has gone up from \u00a32.50 to \u00a33.50! Sandy is one half of <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nightandday.ink\/sandy-nightingale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Night &amp; Day<\/a><\/span><\/strong> 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.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}