Try these sites if you’re interested in Ladybird books or similar children’s fiction.
- Website dedicated to Martin Aitchison, probably the most prolific and popular of Ladybird artists who illustrated nearly 100 books for Ladybird between 1963 and 1990.
- Website dedicated to Frank Hampson, Creator of the comic character ‘Dan Dare’, Frank went on to work for Ladybird for a number of years and illustrated some of the best remembered Ladybird Books including the Nursery Rhymes, Kings and Queens and the ‘Through the Ages’ series.
- Click here to visit the official Ladybird site.
- The oldest of them all. Click here to visit the wonderful Easy on the Eye site.
- A large, book collectors’ site, located in Australia, with lots of links to many areas of interest, including Ladybird, is to be found here: Collecting Books and Magazines
- When it is complete, this site should provide a fairly comprehensive list of standard Ladybird books from 1940-1985. But for a far more complete picture.
- Nicole’s websites can be an excellent resource for the keen collector, providing lists including photographs of all standard sized books including those published by Penguin Random House up to the modern era. You’ll find them here here
- You can buy some fun Ladybird-themed greetings cards and notebooks here.