Better late than never … This year’s Ladybird Books Christmas Quiz is here.Click the white arrow in the green box below. (Below, not the one to the side). Watch the video. Which two featured books are intruders and shouldn’t be…
Read moreTwo more broadsheets have printed full obituaries to Douglas Keen this week. Here are the online versions: The Times The Independent Following The Guardian obit, readers wrote letters for days afterwards saying why Ladybird had been important for them too….
Read moreHere’s the link to the online version of the article on Douglas Keen, which was published in the Daily Mail today.
Read moreOn Saturday, The Guardian – Keen’s favourite newspaper – published an obituary. If you missed it, you’ll find a version of it here. It was written by Cressida Connolly , who I’ve never met but who I think must be…
Read moreDouglas Keen was a remarkable man who lived a remarkable life. He was: visionary; arguably the main reason for the transformation of Ladybird from jobbing printers to publishing phenomenon the man who led Ladybird to enter the market of non-fiction…
Read moreI learnt today from a family friend that Douglas Keen has died. Douglas Keen was Editorial Director of Ladybird over the period of the 1960s and 70s – the publisher’s ‘golden age’ – and was in no small part responsible…
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 moreIf you missed the feature on Martin Aitchison on BBC2’s “See Hear” yesterday, you’ve got a week to catch it on the BBC iPlayer. A great mini-feature on a wonderful man and a very interesting life. BBC iPlayer: See Hear
Read moreThe BBC 2 programme ‘See Hear’ is planning to make a Ladybird feature “along the lines of a montage of illustrations, photos of children through the ages reading Ladybird books”. ‘See Hear’ is a deaf magazine programme presented entirely in…
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