商品簡介
Blue Peter, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in October this year, means something to children of every generation from the 1960s onwards - whether it''s the theme tune, the pets, the sticky-back plastic, or the legendary mishaps.But one little known aspect of the programme is the extraordinary correspondence it generated almost from the day that John Noakes, Valerie Singleton and co. first went on air. By the late 1980s, Blue Peter was receiving an average of 7,000 letters per week.In this wonderfully entertaining book, Biddy Baxter - the programme''s founding editor, and the woman who invented the Blue Peter badge to encourage children to write in with ideas, pictures and stories - introduces some of the very best letters received. Original, engrossing, funny - and sometimes remarkably rude - they provide a unique snapshot of life in the second half of the 20th century, of people
