Ladybird Children’s Classics, The Wind in the Willows, 1983

Ladybird Children’s Classics, The Wind in the Willows, 1983

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 Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) was retold by Joan Collins and illustrated by Martin Aitchison

This copy.

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