Sunny Stories
This page is in support of investigating the adverts on the side of the newsagents shown on the left of this photo of Towngate. Of the 9 posters on the wall the bottom right one is for Sunny Stories and mentions Josie, Click and Bun. Read more about the photo here
This children's magazine started off called Sunny Stories for Little Folk in July 1926: published by George Newnes with Enid Blyton as the editor and writer of all the content. It ran for 250 fortnightly issues to November 1936 though not one of the issues had a date on it. [1]
From January 1937 the magazine was called Enid Blytons's Sunny Stories and was published weekly for 272 issues until April 1942, issue 273, when it became fortnightly. With issue 278, in June 1942, it's name was changed to Sunny Stories by Enid Blyton.[2]
The publisher, Newnes, would only allow adverts within Sunny Stories for their own books but Enid Blyton wanted to advertise her books, jigsaws and games. As a result, at issue 553 in February 1953, Enid Blyton left and launched Enid Blyton's Magazine with Evans Brothers which ran from March 1954 until Enid's failing health resulted in its closure in 1959.[3]
In 1954 Malcolm Saville took over as editor of the Sunny Stories magazine with its simplified title.[4]
Welcome, Josie, Click and Bun!
Josie, Click and Bun can be read on the Sunny Stories poster in the Towngate photo. These were the names of a doll, clockwork mouse and bunny rabbit created by Enid Blyton. They appeared in each issue of Sunny Stories under the title Welcome, Josie, Click and Bun! from issue 480 on April 14, 1950, through to issue 524 on January 11, 1952, and were illustrated by Dorothy M. Wheeler.[2]
