Art

June wrote the 1969 classic book ‘Indoor Gardening’ (series 633 and Learnabout series 634) “Indoor Gardening was the only Ladybird book I wrote.   My mother was instrumental in suggesting some of the ideas as gardening was her hobby. she is…

Bernard Herbert Robinson was born on 28th April 1930 in Broad Green, West Croydon, the only surviving child of Herbert and Lillian Robinson. In 1942 he attended John Ruskin Grammar School where he developed a keen interest in art and…

[Adapted from a biography written his son.  To find out more about Frank Hampson, please see the official website] Frank Hampson was born in a small terraced house in Audenshaw, near Manchester, on 21 December 1918, just after the end of…

John Kenney illustrated some of the best loved Ladybird Books of the 1950s, 60s and 70s John T E Kenney produced a great many of the wonderful Ladybird Book images at the start of what might be called the ‘golden…

Part of the spoken tribute at his funeral, by his daugher – The Ladybird Years It’s not an exaggeration to say that Douglas invented Ladybird books. He didn’t invent the format – that was around since 1941; but the image…

Robert Ayton was one of the main illustrators for Ladybird Books during the ‘golden years’ of the 1960s and 70s. You can read more about Robert here and here  

Robert Lumley was born in Southwark, London, in 1920, the elder of two surviving children. The family moved frequently between London and his father’s native Tyneside, chasing work. Young Robert made the best of an itinerant life, joining the Scouts…