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Just look at this joy of a photo.
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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On #InternationalDogDay, meet the real ‘Pat’ - Peter and Jane’s Irish setter in the Ladybird Key Words readers. This photo is one of artist #HarryWingfield’s reference pictures
The best thing about a picnic in Ladybird Land is the absence of wasps or dirt
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Once upon a time, circa 1963, Ladybird embarked on a grand new project: the ‘Peter and Jane’ reading scheme.
Artist #HarryWingfield illustrated the first books.
Amazingly, the girl who posed for those first books has got in touch .
Here she is: meet Jackie Stanley (aka Jane)
Keeping it simple, here in Ladybird Land.
‘Cooked breakfast’
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Ladybird villains.
The Wolf from Red Riding Hood
#HarryWingfield (1958) #EricWinter (1972)
Everyday Ladybird things.
Cotton reels, milk bottles and pipe-cleaners (1970)
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Once you realised just how many Green Shield stamps it would take to get anything decent, you had to find alternative uses for the catalogue
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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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Ladybird book pictures on request.
The Ladybird shed, 1961
#HarryWingfield @unclewilco
The hidden poetry of Ladybird, part 2.
“We will make another one,”
Says Jane.
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How do you do that with paint?
The mastery of artist #HarryWingfield, part 1.
‘Fruit’
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, many children learned to read with ITA. Did you?
(If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s a link)
https://t.co/LGsUYB4wiT
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Remind me again when the next English Bank Holiday is?
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Ladybird Man must accept early on that he will rarely be fully in the picture.
#RobertAyton #HarryWingfield