In 2013 my good friend, blog supporter and space toy enthusiast Arto gave me a Finnish book about pet animals called Eläinystäväni.
It was published by Gerry Anderson's books arm Century 21 Publishing Ltd no less.
For the last four years I have been searching for the British version of this book from which the Finnish book was translated.
As usual whilst not really looking for that particular Century 21 book I find it!
It was called Animals As Pets and was one of a series of four hardback books by Century 21 Publishing about animals, the others being
Animals of the Countryside
and Animals of the Farm.
The fourth one's title remains unknown to me.
Animals of the Countryside
and Animals of the Farm.
The fourth one's title remains unknown to me.
I found a picture of them on the brilliant Bear Alley blog https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2016/05/ as part of a long series of articles by the late Roger Perry of Century 21 Publishing.
I cannot find any other reference to these books online.
If anyone has any I would be grateful of any pictures and further info for the blog.
Once again, you have cracked it Woodsy! The title in Finnish translates as My Animal Friends, and searches by that name came up with no results. I believe this is the only title of the existing four that was published here, in 1969 iirc.
ReplyDeleteCheers Arto, its always fun when we stumble across answers to mysteries isn't it. The articles by Roger Perry on Bear Alley and well worth a read especially the stuff about Century 21 Publishing.
DeleteThere's still one of the four animal books not known. Only three are named and pictured in Roger's Bear Alley article.
The search goes on for number four.
Thanks for the lovely book in the first place!