This series of 36 small-format hardback books presented stereotyped models of British family life: the innocence of Peter and Jane at play, Mum the housewife, and Dad the breadwinner. Ladybird Books for children offers some of the absolute best books in children’s fiction with phenomenal stories and literature that your child is going to love having on their bookshelf. When I first got interested in Ladybird books, I found it very hard to get the sort of list I wanted – one which struck a balance between simplicity and information.

This book provides a straightforward, chronological overview of British history from Roman times onwards.

I LOVED Dennis the Dragon, Mervyn Town Mouse, Thumbelina, Cinderella, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Princess and the Frog and Rapunzel. A Baby Ladybird Library - Children's 10 Books Collection Set this one has 10 spectacular books, each prefect for children aged 0 to 5. In 1996 Ladybird Books became a subsidiary of the Penguin Books Group and in 1998 Penguin took over the management of the company, closing the iconic Loughborough printing works later that same year. What a shame we are not still in the single market, seamlessly exporting our lamb and whisky so it can be enjoyed in the finest restaurants in Paris.

Written by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland, The Battle for Normandy is an essential introduction to the naval invasion that began the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazis. Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.

Cover has a couple of small marks; light bumping to foot of spine; erased pencil marks visible to blank clock face to pastedown. Good luck with building up your collections and enjoy re-reading your old favourite Ladybird stories and discovering new ones you never knew existed! With most of Europe under Axis control, the Allies battled through the brutal winter of 1945 to overcome German forces and finally defeat Hitler. Nine titles in total are dedicated to these great civilisations: Egypt; Greece; Rome; Crete; The Vikings; The Mycenaeans; Incas; The Aztecs and China.

This set of paperback books and flashcards for children aged 4 to 8 years has everything you could possibly need to give your child a head-start with early learning. Although the Loughborough factory closed in 1999, Ladybird books continue to be published by Penguin Random House. The archive collection comprises approximately 20,000 original artworks, proofs and some documentation from the 1940s to the present day, including examples of the work of notable artists such as C. Some of the famous characters that this series examines are: William the Conqueror; Sir Walter Raleigh; Captain Cook; Charles II; Oliver Cromwell; Alexander the Great; Richard the Lion Heart; Joan of Arc and Sir Francis Drake.I learned to read in the early 1980s, mostly from books in the local library and second hand and jumble sale finds but I did have just a few new Ladybird books and they are the ones which became my very firm favourites. Children all over the world have used Ladybird books to learn to read, discover stories and find out about many subjects. Two more books were published in this series, Series 401, in 1940 and three more, though with a different author, were published the following year.

Each board book adorned in bold, bright colours and simple text covers an important subject like shapes, animal sounds, On the farm, Things that go, colours, At the zoo, numbers, animals, faces and first words; respectively. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Often used in teaching and community sessions, our Ladybird book collection includes many well known titles, such as Peter and Jane stories, ‘What to look for’, ‘How it works’, fairy tales, historical and educational titles, alongside the recent Ladybirds for Grown-Ups series.McNally and Murray (1968) claimed that while the average adult had a speaking vocabulary of about 20,000 words, an extremely large proportion of the language which people produced, and read, was made up of just 250 words. The series of phonic readers and their accompanying activity workbooks have been carefully written to give gradual, structured practice of the synthetic phonics to your child. At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. Small format buff matt boards with blue lettering and decs in pictorial dustwrapper; 52pp; colour ills; pictorial endpapers. Unclipped dustwrapper is rubbed to folds and edges and chipped to corners with pen shading to one of the title letters.