Kaye Webb was a British

United Kingdom

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 journalist and publisher. She was editor of Puffin Books

Puffin Books

Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world.-Early history:...

 between 1961 and 1979, and in 1967 founded the Puffin Club, which she ran until 1981. As a journalist she worked on publications including Picture Post

Picture Post

Picture Post was a prominent photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months...

, Lilliput

Lilliput (magazine)

Lilliput was a small-format British monthly magazine of humour, short stories, photographs and the arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist Stefan Lorant. The first issue came out in July and it was sold shortly after to Edward Hulton, when editorship was taken over by Tom Hopkinson in 1940....

and the News Chronicle

News Chronicle

The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper. It ceased publication on 17 October 1960, being absorbed into the Daily Mail. Its offices were in Bouverie Street, off Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8DP, England.-Daily Chronicle:...

, and later edited the Young Elizabethan. She was married three times, her third marriage (1948–67) being to Ronald Searle

Ronald Searle

Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, is a British artist and cartoonist, best known as the creator of St Trinian's School. He is also the co-author of the Molesworth series....

.

Kaye Webb's archive and working library can be found in the Seven Stories

Seven Stories

Seven Stories the national centre for children's Books in the United Kingdom is based in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, close to the city's newly regenerated quayside...

 centre for children's books collection, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, and can be searched online.http://collection.sevenstories.org.uk/Dserve/Dserve.exe?dsqIni=dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo='kw').

Further reading

• Valerie Grove
  Valerie Grove
  Valerie Grove is a British journalist and writer, for many years a feature writer, interviewer and columnist for The Times newspaper....
  
   (2010), So much more to tell. London: Viking. ISBN 9781846142000 (Biography)

External links

• Julia Eccleshare Obituary: Kaye Webb, The Independent
  The Independent
  The Independent is a British national morning newspaper published in London by Independent Print Limited, owned by Alexander Lebedev since 2010. It is nicknamed the Indy, while the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, is the Sindy. Launched in 1986, it is one of the youngest UK national daily...
  
  , 18 January 1996.
• Helen Brown, Kaye Webb's Puffin Adventure, Daily Telegraph, 30 April 2010.
• Kathleen (Kaye) Webb, Seven Stories
  Seven Stories
  Seven Stories the national centre for children's Books in the United Kingdom is based in the Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, close to the city's newly regenerated quayside...
  
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