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These books help stimulate the development of your child’s senses whilst also encouraging interaction and play between the parent and child. The series follows a trend of other spoof Ladybird books including We Go to the Gallery by Miriam Elia who had previously been threatened with legal action by Penguin. The first book in the line, Bunnikin's Picnic Party: a story in verse for children with illustrations in colour, was produced in 1940.Monopoly, for example (apropos of Sir Walter Raleigh’s woollen cloth export), is rendered: ‘In those days men were rewarded by being given the right to sell something which no one else was allowed to offer. 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.

Small format buff matt boards, missing dustwrapper; 52pp; colour ills; blue open-winged ladybirds to endpapers. Children of the late 1980s might have developed their reading instead with the Puddle Lane Reading Programme, another very popular reading scheme published by Ladybird. Since then, the collection has benefited from additions and acquisitions by both Ladybird Books and the University of Reading, and also includes a reference library of editions. e. Bunnikin’s Picnic Party being the first book published in 1940 begins Series 401; the first Tasseltip story, A Little Silk Apron, was published in 1947 and so begins Series 474.For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Du Garde Peach, the same illustrator - John Kenney, and they were all originally published with dustwrappers. With fifty titles in the series all told, Adventures From History is the biggest series that Ladybird produced between 1940 and 1981. At the beginning of the Second World War, paper rationing forced the company to develop the optimum and most economical design for printing the Ladybird books.

If you want more detailed information about how to identify 1st editions, you’ll find those lists here. The books were launched in 1964 and introduced a whole generation of children to Peter and Jane and their family, Mother, Father and their dog, Pat. There is plenty to discuss and also plenty to look further into by other means, eg Google, if wanted. The one-size-fits-all format enabled books to be produced efficiently and cheaply, which became vital to their success. Ships, submarines and aircraft fought a bitter war that saw the deaths of over 100,000 servicemen and civilians.

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