Ladybird Children’s Classics, A Christmas Carol, 1982

Ladybird Children’s Classics, A Christmas Carol, 1982

The Ladybird Children’s Classics series caused a bit of a stir when it first came out in the late-1970s, but it proved to be a long-running series and was presumably popular.  I believe many commentators of the time were very much against the ‘dumbing down’ of these books, which took classics of children’s literature and wrote them in simplified form and Ladybird format.  The counter-argument is, of course, that the series worked as an introduction to books and writers that children might otherwise not come across, at a period when TV was rapidly replacing books as a child’s staple of entertainment.

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) was Retold by Joan Collins and illustrated by Chris Russell

This copy.

This matt copy is in fair condition.  The boards have got damp at some point and the paper is a little creased/rippled. Inside the book is in good condition but for a small cut on the side of the first 6 pages.  This doesn’t really interfere with the book’s use as a good reading-copy.