In this annual:
- Cove of Secrets (same unknown artist as “Concrete Surfer”)
- Make a Shoulder Bag (crafts)
- My Giddy Aunt! (text story)
- The Changing Picture (possibly a reprint of a Strange Story?)
- The Little Helper (poem)
- The Courage of a Coward (Carlos Freixas)
- The Haunted Horse (text story)
- Just Joking!
- Who’ll Buy? Who’ll Buy? (article)
- Dora Dogsbody (Jim Baikie)
- Do-It-Yourself Dot
- Jinty Made It Herself… so can you! (crafts)
- Holidays At Home (feature)
- Minna From Mars
- Her Ugly Duckling (José Casanovas)
- The China Shepherdess (text story credited to Linda O’Byrne)
- Fallow’s End
- The Time of Your Life? (feature)
- Minna From Mars
- Dot’s Do-It-Yourself Dafties
- Desert Island Daisy (artist Robert MacGillivray)
- Good News For The Birthday Girl! (horoscope)
- Captured By Pirates! (text, non-fiction)
- Oddities of Nature (article)
- Gypsy Festival (photos, non-fiction)
- The Great Picture Puzzle! (text story, illustrated by Terry Aspin)
- Desert Island Daisy (artist Robert MacGillivray)
- Fun With Fruit! (recipes, sponsored by McDougalls’s Pastry)
- Bike Hike Through Britain (board game)
- Care Of Your Cat (article)
- Katie Makes a Splash (artist Audrey Fawley)
- Lesson From The Past (text story)
- The Little Demon! (artist Phil Townsend)
- Do-It-Yourself Dot
- What’s It All About? (personality quiz)
- Minna From Mars
- Eggs-travaganza! (article)
- The Black Pearl (possibly a reprint of a Strange Story?)
- By Bike To India (text, non-fiction)
- Whiz-Kid or Stick In The Mud? (personality quiz)
This is a good solid read even now! There are lots of articles and non-fiction items that are still interesting today (for instance Gypsy Festival, about a Romany gathering in Provence), solid text stories, and spooky comics (two short ones that look like they could be Strange Stories reprints, with the Storyteller panels replaced with descriptive text instead, and one longer one with malevolent ghosts and an annoying girl – “Fallow’s End”, very nicely drawn). If you like the short humour strips, the selection is quite good: three “Minna From Mars” reprints, two “Desert Island Daisy” stories that I expect are specific to this annual, and some two page Do-It-Yourself-Dot strips (in the weekly comic she normally only got one page).
In the “Angela’s Angels” post, Mistyfan mentions the story included in this annual: “The Little Demon!”. The story only features two of the group, Sharon and Jo, who travel (with the little tearaway who is nicknamed a little demon, and his mum) to a remote Scottish island. We now know that Phil Townsend worked with original “Angela’s Angels” artist, Leo Davy, on another nursing strip, so it makes sense that he might have taken up the reins in this case too. I’m interested to see some other outings of artists who are not normally associated with the long-running characters they draw here: Jim Baikie making a good fist of doing “Dora Dogsbody” – Ma Siddons looks as mean as ever, though Dora ends up looking more sweet than cheeky – and Audrey Fawley drawing Katie Jinks.
“Her Ugly Duckling” is a different artistic twist – it is a Casanovas strip, but one which I think might be reprinted from an earlier time (the characters are wearing very 60s styles). He has gone for a dreamy, romantic art style and the story is likewise one with a hint at the end that a boyfriend may be in the offing, though the main theme is about rivalries and a ladette-to-lady story.
A personality quiz was a popular item in all sorts of the publications a young girl might read – here you can see if you are a Whiz Kid or a Stick In The Mud, or find out your secret self. These are light-hearted silly items with some undertone of a moral imperative – if your secret self is a mixed-up jumble of all the other types, you are not praised for your moderation but exhorted to choose one type and suppress the less pleasant sides of your personality deliberately.
A Resource on Jinty: Artists, Writers, Stories 
I’ve got a few of those annuals, but because these have mainly short stories, I stopped collecting them. I prefer the longer ones, like the serials in the weekly comics.
What I find interesting, is that the annuals just kept coming, even though the magazines with the same name had disappeared for years. For instance, Misty as a stand alone comic was last published in early 1980, but annuals were published until 1986. Same goes for many of the other comics which merged into another or were simply discontinued.
Another thing is, that these annuals had, until the very end, alsmost always a picture on the cover from the late 60’s or early 70’s. Even the annuals that were published in the 80’s. They look lovely, of course, but I wonder why they didn’t use a more contemporary drawing or painting. Many of the covers were by Purita Campos, who, of course also created many, many wonderful paintings in the ’80’s which could have been chosen to be used for the annuals.
I also prefer the longer stories but I was surprised when I dug out this and other annuals how much solid stuff there was in there.
Some of the Jinty annuals slightly later on have got slightly more updated cover art but yes, all in all they seem to want to cultivate a ‘timeless’ look more than anything!
They do all seem to have at least one long story, which is often the right sort of length to be a reprint from the weekly comic. In this annual the Casanovas story has thrills and adventure as well as rivalry (and hairdressing). It is 18 pages long, which is a bit short as a reprint from a weekly comic, though.
Minna from Mars was originally Vanessa from Venus, a June character.
Many of the early Jinty annuals reprinted serials from June, such as “She Couldn’t Remember!” and “Sheilagh’s Shadow”. “Jill in the Dark” probably was one as well.