Dick Whittington and his cat - a great favourite as you can see from its condition! Story retold by Vera Southgate and illustrated by Eric Winter. They were also responsible for the next book -another well-loved tale - Puss in Boots.
Big Animals - lots of information for children to enjoy.
Written and illustrated by John Leigh-Pemberton.
Road Sense - love the pictures in this - so dated (1977) now, but great to look at. Written by R Collingridge and illustrated by B H Robinson.
The Vikings - such a fabulous book just full of fascinating pictures and information. Written by Stephanie Bardon and illustrated by Richard Hook and Jon Davis.
Loved these book as a child. My children loved them and I still love them. They really can't be beaten for fabulous writing and illustrations.
These are my Five on Friday - come and have a look at some fabulous blogs.
Love, Liz
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33 comments:
I remember Puss in Boots from my childhood :) Have a lovely weekend!
Hi there. I just stumbled by your blog after looking at some of the 5 on Friday. I love this post. Ladybird books are some of my favourite things. I loved them as a child and remembered the pictures vividly. Unfortunately my mum had a clear out when I was in my teens and they got passed on to relatives! She's never heard the last of it:). Thank you for indulging me in a bit of nostalgia.
Amanda x
How wonderful to have a collection of Ladybird books. They are so well illustrated. The one on the Vikings looks fascinating:)
A beautiful collection, a definite blast from the past. I used to have a wonderful collection as a child of Ladybird books. Have a lovely weekend.
I used to love Ladybird books. I don't think I ever read any of these though.
I've heard of these but had never seen them before. They're the kind of book I like to track down. Thanks for the post.
I love the really old fairy story Ladybird books. I think I had the Puss in Boots book when I was little. The pictures look so familiar.
Sooo, is that a Ferrari the policeman is so carefully holding up or a Porsche ? How amusing!
Ladybird Books were entertaining and informative. The company employed some talented illustrators and you could buy these books for a modest price. I remember the Road Sense one well and many others that we had on our classroom reading shelf. I still have Big Animals in my small collection, although many children's books have been given away over the years.
I love the old Ladybird books, I used to own lots of them when I was young and still have a few. The wonderful illustrations are very dated now but iconic with the time in which they were published. xx
Gosh these bring back memories I think I read every ladybird book I could lay my hands on to my kids when they were small we loved them too. Have a great weekend. :)
Great looking books, I love vintage children's books.
OMG! I had both Dick Whittington & Puss in Boots...I remember the covers so well.
I love Children's books and especially the illustrations. I have a few favorites around here, too. Have a great weekend.
What a fun collection of old books. I have just a few from my childhood and still enjoy paging through them and reading the stories. Happy Weekend.
They are so well done aren't they. Bright and colourful and inviting. :-)
These books are just wonderful and brings a feeling of nostalgia looking at them. I remember them as a child and have a few around the house that i look at from time to time, especially the ones on garden birds and wild flowers ones as they are still useful today.
Have a good weekend Liz
Gill xx
Good morning from Vancouver Island. I'm here via Five on Friday and your comment on my post. I love your blog name!
I remember some of those books,as they were readily available over here too. Just looking at the post took me back!
I remember many of those books- we used to listen to Dick Whittington being read on the radio - fun memories.
I LOVE Ladybird books, especially the Well-Loved Tales. I had that edition of Dick Whittington when I was a child...and it's still on my bookshelf. Such gorgeous pictures. Thank you for this lovely post. x
Oh, I love those old books. I can smell them from here! The font, the style of pictures...they're so familiar. Thanks for the memories!
What a great selection of Ladybird books! We had a few of these when I was a kid too.
Wendy
Nothing brings back happy memories so much as a book we knew as a child. I still bring out my Grimm's and Andersen's Fairy Tales once in awhile.
I remember those first two as I had them too, along with so many others. My favourite was Rose Red and Snow White (or were they the other way around?). I now can't go past roses without wanting to put the white and red ones together. I love Ladybird books and want to start another collection to reminisce. Have a wonderful Sunday x
Ladybird books make me smile, what a lovely collection and full of colour.
So nice to have these books for a bit of nostalgic feeling!
Love from Mirjam.
What a lovely old books. My older daughter who's five and a half has been given by my in-laws a few well-used Ladybird books and she loves to use them to practice her reading. I think these books are fantastic.
Last autumn in Loughborough there were benches installed to celebrate Ladybird books. They are amazing to see in real life.
http://www.wildinart.co.uk/bringing-the-art-of-ladybird-books-to-the-streets-of-loughborough/3794
What a great collection . . .
Amazing how one gets caught up in collecting something and before long it takes on a life of its own.
I am not familiar with these books . . . they look interesting, love the illustrations.
I have saved and collected many children books from my teaching days
Plus a few from my personal childhood days . . .
Happy Match Days . . .
They were such beautiful books. I loved the Princess and the pea, and the Princess & the Frog. The latter giving me a love of gold cutlery. I remember one picture of the frog scoffing something from a gold fork and I always loved that picture and wanted a gold fork one day. Got my wish last year, when we bought new gold (coloured, not solid!) cutlery.
Funny how such small things really stick far back in the mind.
I saw some new ladybird books just before Christmas. comedy ones. How it works - The Husband and the same about 'the wife'. I had a look through, giggled here and there, but no, didn't buy them. Just didn't have the same appeal! :O)
I definitely had those first two when I was little, don't remember the Vikings one but it would be handy as my youngest has been doing them at school and we've had a ton of homework!
Gosh, Puss in boots I haven't heard that forever. I love seeing old books. Happy weekend with love Janice
I still have some Ladybird books from when I was little. We used to be given religious ones at Sunday school as prizes. I still pick up the odd one, but they seem to be getting harder to find and more expensive too. Are you finding this? Ruth.
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