Celebrate 70 spectacular years of Puffin and its books! This year Puffin is 70 - sounds ancient, doesn't it? But Puffin has never been so lively and this year is packed full of fantastic events, books, a major exhibition and much more! Watch this space for all our birthday news and ways for you to let your imagination run wild and join in all the fun.

And remember - it's National Puffin Share A Story Day on 8th May, save the date in your diaries and we'll keep you up-to-date with all the exciting plans!

WIN book tokens and delicious Divine chocolate by entering the eighth annual Divine Poetry competition. Last year it was judged by our very own Anne Fine!
Find out all about the competition and how to enter here.

STOP PRESS! Fresh from the US of A: the brand-new cover and title for the fourth fiction book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has just been revealed to fans all over the world.

And you'd better get your hat on, because it's a scorcher!

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days will be released in hardback by Puffin on 13 October, 2009.

Think adventure, glamour and a Caribbean island or two. Think Bond — Young Bond!

Ian Fleming, who wrote the original James Bond books, did a lot of his writing in Jamaica in his home called Goldeneye.

Now, to celebrate Young Bond: By Royal Command by Charlie Higson being published in paperback on May 28, we've teamed up with Absolute Radio and Beaches Luxury Included© Resorts to give away an incredible family holiday in Jamaica. With everything included! Listen live on to Absolute at 105.8FM or online from 10am on Saturday 30 May for your chance to win!! At Beaches, Mums and Dads can relax whilst the kids can have the time of their lives! For all the Young Bonds out there, your adventure is just beginning: speed down the rides at the water park or get gaming at the Xbox© Game Garage. There's also a Scratch DJ Academy and nightclub for teens and tweens!

Don't miss the laugh-a-minute comedy show with one of Puffin's most hilarious authors, Jeremy Strong.

The Big Jam Explosion Tour is going across the country this May half term so check out the Puffin events page to find out when and where!

Packed with hilarious anecdotes from Jeremy's accident-prone childhood, the inspirations for some of his characters and why food from Christmas puddings to killer tomatoes play an important part in Jeremy's stories, this brilliant family event will have everyone from seven to seventy laughing their socks off!

In the week that Rick Riordan is over here in the UK promoting his brilliant Percy Jackson series, the cast for Fox's Percy Jackson film has been announced!

Logan Lerman and Brandon T. Jackson have landed the leading roles in Fox 2000's Percy Jackson. Chris Columbus will helm the adventure/fantasy about the schoolboy (Lerman) whose world is turned upside-down when he discovers that his father is actually the Greek god Poseidon. The story kicks off with Percy becoming the prime suspect when Zeus' master lightning bolt is stolen. The boy has just 10 days to find and return the stolen property to bring peace to the warring gods . . .

Jackson will play Percy's best friend Grover, a satyr. Fox 2000 is looking to place a number of big-name actors in the smaller roles of the gods.

Imagine the biggest celebration of books and reading in the UK and Ireland. Then match that with the world's greatest half-boy, half-god. What do you get? Only a brilliant Percy Jackson mini adventure plus Horrible Histories Groovy Greeks - a winning combo for World Book Day on 5th March!

Available for only £1 with your World Book Day voucher, in Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades, the goddess Persephone (pronounced Pur-seff-on-ee by the way) has summoned Percy to the underworld in order to retrieve Hades' powerful sword before it falls into the wrong hands. Cue many evil ghosts and demons - just a walk in the park then for Percy . . .

Taking part in Readathon encourages children to get the reading habit and to help other children who are seriously ill. Every year hundreds of schools and thousands of children raise well over £1 million for The Roald Dahl Foundation and CLIC Sargent (Caring for Children with Cancer) by reading tens of thousands of books between them. Come on. You can make a difference too.

To find out how you can join in go to readathon.org and register today!

And as if that wasn't exciting enough, you can get money off your books with Penguin group!

ORDERING INFORMATION:

You can order books up to the amount of money your school has raised for Readathon and purchase these at half price.

To select your books go to:
penguin.co.uk
puffin.co.uk
dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk
ladybird.co.uk

Example:
Raise £100, order up to £100 worth of books and get them at half price.
Raise £300, order up to £300 worth of books and get them at half price.

For sales queries please contact Lara Dowden on 0207 010 3244 or via email.

To celebrate the new look Spot books published in January we are launching a competition to find the best Spot dancer. So if you love having a boogie-woogie and spend hours bopping around with your friends this is the competition for you! To be in with a chance of winning a Spot tea party at your home, simply ask your parents to video your moves and upload the footage on to funwithspot.com Don't forget to ask all your friends and family to cast their votes online!

Livi, Abby and Ellie interviewed top teen author Cathy Cassidy at the Bath Festival of Children's Literature.

Click here to hear her talking about ideas, daydreaming and breaking the school uniform rules!