Postcards From Penguin: 100 Book Jackets in One Box Novelty Book – Box Calendar, 5 Nov. 2009

Yes its 100 different real postcards. Actual postcards which can be posted through the mail, space on the back for address and message plus a few words about the subject. The quality is really very good, better than some postcards on sale from the racks. A nice sturdy box containing 100 nice sturdy useable postcards.The illustrations are of course book covers from the Penguin range over the decades so there is a great variety. Some well known classic titles and some pretty obscure. Mostly the plain block colour but a proportion illustrated. Good value? I promise you won't use them all ..!

These are excellent. So many great titles and interesting covers. I first saw these in a gift shop and they cost £14.99. I wasn't prepared to pay that price and so came home and looked on Amazon straight away. As usual, they did not let me down. Book Depository was selling them brand new for £5.99! I have since mounted a number of them in large picture frames and they look great!

Postcards from Puffin: 100 Book Covers in One BoxPostcards From Penguin: 100 Book Jackets in One BoxThe joy and delight from these 2 boxes for a voracious reader from childhood is immeasureable. Not only are there a scattergun of memories lurking to spring out and delight you but also a witty answer to every postcard need. Thank you card? Birth of a new child? Moving house? Congratulations? Remember when? Birthday? you will find a card suitable for any occasion - personalised far more intelligently than any computer generated one. Also they are beautiful in themselves; a group of them framed would also look stunning. No more my friends - just buy them and love them.

This is a wonderful box set of postcards of classic bookcovers. The pictures are high quality renditions and there is a great range of classics in here. I bought this as a gift for book lover and it was very popular. They took the decision to frame a number of the postcards and they look great framed up around the house. There are classic covers here from stories we all remember - Wizard of Oz; Treasure Island; Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe; Stig of the Dump; The Secret Garden a veritable treasure trove of classic children's literature. These would be great to send or to keep.

This box of 100 postcards illustrating a range of Penguin Books paperback covers from the late 1930's up to the 1970's (will a further box of more recent covers appear?) is terrific and effectively offers a museum of design for your own home! The high standards of work maintained by the company and the designers it employed throughout are impressive. It is good to see that, for the most part, the individual designers are identified although the person who devised the original characteristic horizontal white and orange division, the first Production Manager, Edward Young, is not credited as far as I can tell. However later designers and illustrators are named, such as Jan Tschichold, Stephen Russ, Germano Facetti, Romek Marber, Denise York, Alan Spain and Alan Aldridge.Highly recommended. But which of these great postcards will you ever want to part with?

I bought it as a birthday gift for my wife, because she is a posrcrosser.She loves every cards so much.She can’t be able to send it yet.I can’t bought this postcard box in Japan anywhere even net shops.So I bought from Amazon UK.

I can't add very much to the other ecstatic reviews for this product. The box (at least at Amazon's discounted price) offers tremendous value for money for 100 postcards, and I really can't put a price tag on quite how much happiness they have brought me.I went through the full set and found cards of all the Puffin books I read as a child, and was absolutely flooded with nostalgia. My favourites are now tacked onto my study wall, and bring me such a glow of joy whenever I see them.This would make a wonderful small present for yourself or for friends, and certainly no bookworm who grew up in the 1970s should be without it. I've also since bought the adult Penguin postcard box (slightly lacking the huge charm of the Puffin illustrations, but still brilliant fun); I'm now longing for some bright spark at the publishing house to bring out Peter and Jane and Enid Blyton versions.

Brands recycling old artwork as posters, greetings cards and the like is nothing new, but there is something very fitting about being able to write your own words "under" a famous Penguin book cover.In these days of e-mail, facebook and Twitter the mere fact of receiving a physical bit of paper makes a postcard more than mere communication, it's a rare personal touch and these cards add a little bit extra. They come in a nice sturdy box too, making it easy to store them on the edge of the desk.. or even the bookshelf.