Puffin has had a big year for books: 2015 saw the release of the second Girl Online novel, the conclusion of Charlie Higson’s The Enemy series, and a striking black edition of the #1 bestselling The Fault in Our Stars, to name just a few. Even though it’s a difficult task, we’ve put together a selection of eight can’t-miss titles for your reading and gifting pleasure. Stop what you’re doing, these are our must-reads!
This week’s ’52 Puffins’ nomination comes from Natasha, one of our sparkling Marketing Team – and it sounds like Tiny Cooper is more than ready to take centre stage!
What is 52 Puffins? Well, although we love our main characters, in 2013 we think its time to celebrate the supporting cast: the extras with the witty one-liners, the dastardly villains and the best freind every hero would be lost without. Who’s your favourite?
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1. Name: Tiny Cooper (from Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan)
2. Famous Friends?
Both Will
Graysons (but especially Will Grayson). Will didn’t
exactly CHOOSE to be friends with Tiny Cooper, but they ended up thick as
thieves anyway. Will says, “We’ve been friends too long to pick, but if I could
pick, I’d pick you”… which gets taken to another level when he actually, literally has to pick Tiny’s nose for him! Ewww!
3. Hero or villain?
MASSIVE
hero! And a legend in his own lunchtime!
4. Why you love him?
Because Tiny
Cooper is, hilariously, very UN-tiny… in fact, he’s ginormous! Will is constantly impressed that Tiny
manages to defy the laws of physics and squeeze behind one of those titchy
American-style school desks every day – he calls it “the miracle of Tiny Cooper
and the desk”.
Secondly,
unlike Will Grayson, Tiny Cooper is NOT afraid to fall completely, madly,
utterly in love. He’s a total romantic!
Thirdly, he is
an AMAZING football player.
And last but
not least, he gets funding for, writes, produces and directs a school musical
ABOUT HIS OWN LIFE! That’s how awesome
he is! (He even writes Will Grayson into
the musical, in the cunning guise of the fictional character ‘Phil Wrayson’…)
5. What’s his catchphrase?
Hmmm… I’m not
sure he has one! But there is a
catchphrase ABOUT Tiny Cooper, which is (repeat after me!): “I appreciate you, Tiny Cooper!”
It seems we’re not the only ones excited about The Fault in Our Stars by John Green –
you are too!
Last Tuesday we found out that it had won Best Young Adult Fiction in The Goodreads.com Choice Award.
What makes this award so special is that it’s chosen by readers like you guys. Over
90,000 votes were cast and almost 40,000 were for TFIOS.
Everyone in the office was really happy for John
but because he lives in America
we thought we should wait a few hours before we congratulated him (it was about
3AM over in the states). We hadn’t even picked up the phone when there was yet
more good news . . .
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