Noel Carrington is particularly admired for his editorship of the Puffin Picture Books launched in 1940 by Allen Lane of Penguin Books. The non-fiction titles were inspired by the brightly coloured, mass-produced lithographed children's books being published at the time in the Soviet Union. The free exhibition "Noel Carrington: Nothing Need Be Ugly" at The Higgins Bedford (until September) brings together all 120 titles for the first time.