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Collecting Ladybird books is a very rewarding hobby and can be scaled up or down, according to your interests, space available and budget. You might want to start collecting Ladybird books that you remember from your childhood and see where it leads you. Vintage Ladybird books were published in numbered series and often there are clues on any given book as to how many other books were published in the same series. This can encourage you to ‘complete the series’. You might find then that you are attracted to the work of a particular writer or illustrator and decide you would like to find the books by that individual. Some people decide early on that they want to collect every Ladybird book published between specific dates. Personally, I am mainly interested in collecting the Ladybird books published between 1940 and 1972 (when the company was sold) – and many other collectors come to a similar decision.
A huge number of vintage Ladybird books can still be picked up from very little money. If you decide you want the very earliest books and earliest editions, you will need to spend more. If your pockets are well-lined, then you can turn your attention to buying the original Ladybird book artwork.
Martin Aitchison has released some more pieces of original Ladybird Book artwork for sale. Take a look at his gallery here. There are some lovely pieces here. I think my favourite is ‘Liang Painted a Storm’ from the Read it…
Read moreI received this message last week: “I am trying to find a book to buy written in ITA. I learned ITA at school from 1965 to about 1968. I think it must have been pretty new then because when I…
Read moreI don’t know if more people are interested in old Ladybird Books, but more people seem to be interested in them as money making collectables. Although I’ve been getting fewer enquiries about buying books recently, I have had many more…
Read moreThe BBC are making a series of 4 programmes, hosted by Kirsty Young I think, exploring aspects of social change through children’s books – or something like that. Anyway, I was contacted by one of the programme team who had…
Read moreFritz, originally uploaded by helendawntreader. Fritz, the gentleman mentioned in the post below, is an actor – principally an ‘extra’ – or whatever the correct term is. With his wild beard, matching scraggy pony-tail and nose ring he gets very…
Read moreUploaded – 0222009-2 . Now here’s a sight to warm my heart. I was contacted by a very interesting sounding man who said he had a few box loads of Ladybird Books that he had been about to take to…
Read moreFor quite a while now I’ve been working on a new Ladybird Book gallery, featuring lots of pictures and some commentry, slideshows etc. The old gallery is looking extremely dated and isn’t interactive. But this all takes time and so…
Read moreI am pleased to say that the company offering the Ladybird Prints has agreed with my comment below about the fact that the artists should be credited on the website. They got in touch to acknowledge the point (as did…
Read moreI couldn’t put it off any longer. Cinderella. If you’re male, skip this posting. You won’t get it. It’s a girl thing. This is the most popular Ladybird Book of all time, by miles, according to the long-standing poll on…
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On this page you’ll find information about Ladybird books produced in different versions or with different covers. If, for example, you want to collect all the original 606d books, it helps to know which books belong to this series and…
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