ladybird book

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Ladybird Book

My etsy store, Stupid Gorgeous has my Vintage Ladybird book notebooks available to buy now. There is a link on the left too to jump right there. New notebooks and handmade-by-me products added soon :)

It's the Ladybird Book of Motorcars from 1963, and as you would imagine it's full of rubbish really. Just endless boring grey shapes, until you get to page 40, where you find the Maserati 3500 GT. Now this for me, when I was little, .

this lazyladybird didn t know how to fly. At the end, she hoped onto an elephants trunk then the elephant sneezed, and the poor old ladybird had to fly at last. I like reading this book because it is funny and very interesting, .

Relive your childhood with this gorgeously packaged retro box set of six Ladybird books, priced £12.99. A selection of some of the most popular books from the Ladybird archive, dating back to the 1950s, have been reproduced following .

This is so important right now, as Amy has just caught on, and is reading Roald Dahl's "Magic Finger" and a Little Red Riding Hood Ladybird Book. We discovered we have seven Little Red Riding Hood stories at home, eight if you cound .

. will look great with my denim skirt that I will be making anytime soon..a soft snuggly cot blankey, some lovely vintage bias binding (packets to yum to ever use) & a ladybird book about alexander the great.my purse £7 lighter .

I also found a copy of a Ladybird childrens book called "Learn to Crochet", printed in the 70's. I bought this as a present for thereyougothen, confidently expecting her to fall about laughing at it given that she's amazingly good at .

Boys and Girls: A Ladybird Book of Childhood (Gift Book) Average Customer Review: Buy new: £20.00 £9.99 30 used & new from £9.97 Daily Express, 18 June 2007 "Boys and Girls is a warm and affectionate look at a collection of books that, .

A mate of mine pointed this out the other day, an auction for a kids Ladybird book on ebay that had been altered to put a slightly different spin on policing. Apparently it was;. Cheekily left in the sale box of a local library. .

For a split second (if I ignored the i-pod plugged into her ears) we looked like an illustration from a Ladybird book. You know the sort of thing. Jane and Peter are playing in the kitchen whilst Mummy cooks and Daddy is cleaning the .

Ladybird Book of Motorcars from 1963 and, as you would imagine, it's full of rubbish really. Just endless boring grey shapes, until you get to page 40, where you find the Maserati 3500 GT. Now this for me, when I was .

I found this sweet little LadyBird book a few months (?) back, and fell in love with it straight away. It's called The LadyBird Book of Bedtime Rhymes and is written by Geoffrey Lapage, and is illustrated by George Brook. .

I was the same when I lived 'on the bank' - ever since reading a ladybird book as a child about fire, I've half expected my home to be burned to a cinder when I got home. Narrowboats and fire - don't even go there. .

Published in 1970 it is full of wonderful illustrations of brave men doing dangerous things like defusing bombs. Wouldn't be allowed now of course.

A book you loved in elementary school: Those cute Ladybird books of the Peter and Jane variety! A book you loved in middle/junior high school: Ah this was the Enid Blyton phase…can I just leave it at that? .