Ladybird Children’s Classics, The Three Musketeers, 1981

Ladybird Children’s Classics, The Three Musketeers, 1981

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.

The Three Musketeers, 1981 (Alexandre Dumas) was retold by Joan Cameron and illustrated by Frank Humphris

This copy.

This matt copy is in excellent condition. Not much wear and nice, clean pages.