BOOK TWENTY-SIX Published 1991 (no book published 1990) BP Team: Yvette Fielding, John Leslie and Diane-Louise Jordan (who joined on 25th January 1990). Diane's favourite group is Aswad and her favourite book as a child was The Borrowers. Cover: Cheesy grins from the threesome in unremarkable clobber - what no leotards and climbing boots? John and Honey the puppy are on the back. Features: Blue Peter is all about traditions handed down through the generations, is it not? One modern tradition is that some poor BP presenter has to get up every day at 6am to run round London's inhospitable streets in training for the London Marathon - this year it's John Leslie's turn... Bring and Buy sales help Romanian orphans (and there's a silly side to all this - "At our celebrity Bring and Buy, Phillip Schofield and Gordon the Gopher helped to raise money - but the Gopher wasn't for sale!"... John paints the Forth Road Bridge and Yvette paints a British Airways jumbo (there's not really a 747 out there called 'The Flying Yvette' is there???)... Bonnie has six puppies... the team travels to the Caribbean for a laid back holiday and discover the local flavour, including reggae music; "the driving hypnotic beats of reggae are with you wherever you go..." So how green is the new green Blue Peter? The office uses recycled paper, reuses internal BBC envelopes and saves drinks cans but admits that 45% of staff drive to work by car, with only one person in most of them. Ooooh, John Prescott would have sorted them out... Yvette goes rock-climbing... Young dancer Darcey Bussell comes into the studio, aged 21... Several years before they began Walking on your licence fee, some animatronic dinosaurs drop in as part of a travelling exhibition... John visits the Channel Tunnel as it is being drilled... Dating this book is a feature on the hip and cool game of American football. Wow, this game was going to be so huge at one time... Makes: Make your own puppy - "who would ever dream they started life as a fabric conditioner bottle?" A really cool 'Olympic' style Edd the Duck puppet! Historical Figure's Life Story in Pictures: Hey, it's Mozart once again. And, it says here, "when he died of fever at the age of just 35, he was penniless," correcting the omission made in Book 6! Stories: Long gone it would seem. Notes: Yep, the annual misses another year; there is no annual for 1990. The BBC has changed publisher again and for the last two of the 'original' run the book is produced by World International. The penultimate book of the original run, this is once again extremely hard to track down and could be as much as three pounds despite its recent vintage. Oh and just in case you're thinking of getting a gold Blue Peter badge, take note of the explanation on page 60; "you will only win that one if you do something extraordinary, like saving someone's life (witnesses needed!)..." I can just imagine the number of letters they must have received trying to blag these badges...