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‘A’ isn’t always for ‘apple’. The question is, was ‘A’ ever for ‘Armoured Train’ ? (Bear with me; this IS leading somewhere). There were lots of different Alphabet books produced by Ladybird over the years and there’s a story that…
Read moreBookplates Is your name Lynn Brailey? WAS your name Lynn Brailey? Then perhaps you are being sought. Not for anything bad – this is Ladybird Land, for goodness sake. Let’s go back a stage. Lots of old Ladybird Books have…
Read moreJust this week everywhere I look online I seem to see reference to Ladybird Books – and the trumpeting that they are ” to drop gender branding from its books after almost 100 years”.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30143662 If you search Twitter at…
Read moreA few weeks ago, I was searching through my Ladybird Books, looking for a suitable picture to use for the commemoration of the D-Day Landings. It proved very hard to find anything – and reminded me how very few pictures…
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Superficially similar to Miriam Elia’s work (but actually very different) is this work of artist Jon Bentley: “Peter and Jane – The Lost Episodes”. What I like about this piece is that, once you get your head around it, you…
Read moreRecently it has been raining. You may have noticed.Raining a lot. Of course, it never rains in Ladybird Land. Ladybird Land is a place of eternal spring flowers and sunny picnics and games with boats down by the friendly river….
Read moreThanks to Jenny for the tip-off. Here’s the cover of Private-Eye mentioned in the comments of my last post.
Read moreI have just come across the following wonderful poem here – and it seems so appropriate for this blog. From “from The State of Poetry by Roger McGough” Children’s Writer John in the garden Playing goodies and baddies Janet in…
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 moreStrangely enough, this week I’ve had two separate questions emailed to me about the Key Word Reader series in Gaelic. The first writer concerned reading schemes in general and asked:“Janet and John were very English children; theyspoke very proper English,…
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