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Old Ladybird Books updated, part 103. Goldilocks, 1958 and 1971.

Mummy and Daddy Bear get more openly affectionate - and central heating.

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2020-07-27

People who are helping us -
a Ladybird tribute
Part 3. (1985)

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2020-04-12

Meet the real ‘Pat’ - Peter and Jane’s Irish setter in the Ladybird Key Words readers. This photo is one of artist reference pictures, Walsall Museum archive

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2020-01-13

On this day 24th November 1877 the novel Black Beauty was first published.
Anna Sewell said she wrote the novel "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"

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2019-11-24

Just look at this joy of a photo - unearthed from the archive of Walsall museum.
Jane’s shop - a study for an illustration in one of the first books I remember: Peter and Jane 1b (1963)

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2019-11-18

Be warned - today’s requested Ladybird book picture is the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood

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2019-07-21

Old Ladybird Books updated, part 81.
Jane gets camera-conscious
(1964 & 1974)

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2019-07-20

Keeping it simple, here in Ladybird Land.
‘Cooked breakfast’

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2019-04-07

The mastery of
Fruit and Vegetables

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2019-03-27

On this day 27th Jan 1995, Eric Cantona was banned for kicking a fan - but perhaps the damage to Peter had been done

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2019-01-27

Everyday Ladybird things.
Wooden cotton reels, glass milk bottles and pipe-cleaners (1970)

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2018-10-24

Old Ladybird books updated, 1964 and 1975.
I get the riding-hats and clothes - but did even the horse have to turn 1970s-brown?

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2018-05-15

Ladybird things I really, really wanted, part 10.
An Irish Setter, like Pat

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2018-05-02

The mastery of artist part 6.
Things for the baby

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2018-04-30

The mastery of artist part 5.
Animals

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2018-01-30