Garden Flowers, 1960
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
#bloomscrolling #ladybirdbooks #ladybird thank you to Helen Day
I seem to have conflated 2 or 3 illustrations in my mind. This is one (which is separate indelible memory).
For a beautiful story of this kind I recommend a recent essay from @davidallengreen about a search for a cherished childhood book (https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story-of-a-forty-year-book-quest-and-of-its-remarkable-ending/).
I'm indebted to @Grindrod for his account of modernism in #LadybirdBooks
http://dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-ladybird-book-of-postwar-rebuilding.html?m=1. The comments show I'm not alone in being heavily influenced by them.
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…
Balloons Over Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1990 - PH Topics Postcard on eBid United Kingdom | 220966879
Balloons Over Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1990 - PH Topics Postcard Listing in the Hampshire,England,UK,Topographical,Postcards,Collectables Category on eBid United Kingdom | 220966879
Vast collection of Ladybird classics 'coming home'
Collector Helen Day says the familiar pocket-sized favourites are a "backdrop to my childhood".
New on the website today I have the complete illustrations by renowned Ladybird Book artist Roger Hall for the 1982 book The Loaves and Fishes (link below) where you can see more pictures.
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https://www.booksandinkbookshop.com/page/rogerhallpaintings
Today's front cover, via the excellent
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#LadybirdBooksLadybird Books Gallery 01
I've written a guest post on the world famous Ladybird Books on 'Lynne about Loughborough', the wonderful blog curated by local historian Lynne Dyer. The post tells the unusual history of how a local jobbing printer in an Eastmidlands market town became a global publisher.
https://lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2023/12/ladybird-books-from-jobbing-printers-to.html
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Ladybird Books from jobbing printers to global brand
Ladybird Books began life in 1914 when the jobbing printing firm Wills and Hepworth produced the first of these books from Angel Yard in Market Place.
Ladybird books solutions to winter evenings...
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