Penguins and Pelicans, the orange and the blue.

Penguin books were founded by Sir Allen Lane in 1935.  In the central white panel the author and title is written in Eric Gill's sans serif type face, with a cartouche in the upperband that simply says "Penguin Books"/ "Pelican Books".
The business was first expanded in 1937 with an educational series- "Pelicans".  G B. Shaw's "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism" was the first published  title.  The Penguins shown here are numbers 16/36/43 and 47 all 1936, and the Pelicans A109/160/161 and 163, 1945 1946 (2) and 1947.

Libraries are threatened with closure!

Books, real books!  They live in libraries for everyone!
Unfortunately, with the threat of the ubiqiutous 'kindle' -(and others similar),  less  reading in schools due to a lack of good  basic education, and too much 'on screen' work,   a too fast moving society that cannot concentrate for more than 10 minutes at a time, cuts to council budgets, falling numbers of people bothering to use and treasure the facilities in their libraries, visitors to libraries have fallen off drastically.
The Conservatives are planning to cut the numbers of libraries,- and  they preach the 'big society'. That doesn't make sense does it?
Where are the great philanthropists of the past? There are plenty of super rich out there with more money than they could ever spend in a lifetime, would it be impossible for them to give some of that money back to the community, where it came from in the first place?
Andrew Carnegie, the son of a handloom weaver, built his  first public library in Dunfermline his hometown in Scotland in 1883. "Let there be light" is the carved motto at the entrance. He believed in giving a chance to those who were most anxious to,  and able to help themselves. The libraries he  was responsible for building in America are still  some of the most imposing structures built in hundreds of American communities too.

Above........... oh the beauty and joy of books!