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Dear All

Hello

Hope you are okay.


The Ladybird book series was launched in Leicestershire in the 19th Century.

Millions of illustrated books have been sold in the UK, covering everything
from history, science and fairytales to, more recently, e-books and popular brands such as Peppa Pig and Hello Kitty.

Did you read a Ladybird book when you were young or have you read one to a small person?


Take gentle care
With best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

MY SON AND DAUGHTER WERE TAUGHT MY ME
I SHOULD SAY TO READ BEFORE STARTING SCHOOL WITH LADYBIRD BOOKS

always bought Ladybird books for my son late sixties through early seventies - delightful little books, and so many of them

Hello Elizabeth. My son had a full collection and loved his Ladybird books., It was part of our evening routine, me reading to him, and he would explain the pictures..

He is forty-seven now and still loves books , not Ladybird anymore, but they were where he got the reading bug.

I found a ladybird book - 'The Ugly Duckling' today, whilst doing some clearing :-D

Quite often, I use them in adult literacy lessons.

It's a shame more people don't heed the grammar and spelling!

ERROL
I'D RATHER CHILDREN READ THAN WORRY ABOUT
GRAMMAR AND SPELLING,
I KNOW YOU CAN TELL THAT BY ME,
BUT THEN I AM UNIQUE

Grammar and spelling are extremely important in the workplace - that is why many companies insist on qualifications such as English GCSE.
That is not said to knock those who are not so good at grammar and spelling but to highlight the importance of at least striving to teach correct English.
Dizzi, you are indeed unique and nobody would ever wish you to change.

Ooh You Are Awful... But I Like You! Lack of grammar and spelling can indeed lead to who knows what.

BBC had a great program about Ladybird books recently
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mp53s
which can be dug up out if iPlayer if you are good at that sort of thing. If not here is a clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDGgnJypjy0

I never quite jelled with Ladybird preferring lighter reading such as Edgar Allen Poe MR James and for practical matters Meccano Magazine and the Beano.

Failure to get up to speed with Ladybird and Janet & John could have dire consequences .....

"and now without furher ado it's back to ramblyng syd - who will now give his rendition of a popular ye olde englishe sea shanty....take it away syd....

What shall we do with the drunken nurker,
What shall we do with the drunken nurker,
What shall we do with the drunken nurker,
He’s bending his cordwangle.

Hit him in the nadgers with the bosun’s plunger,
Slap him on the grummitt with a wrought iron lunger,
Cuff him in the moolies with the Captain’s grungerrrrr....
Till his bodgers dangle.

(Kenneth Williams, Round the Horn)

Ladybird kept the impressionable youth of the UK away from this sort of thing while father larfed and mother burnt the roast beef.

Indubitably.

I have a bin bag full in the loft
the enormous turnip was my favourite :-D :-D

Your favourite what?

ladybird book :-0 :-0

:-D

Our children had a whole array of Ladybird books. They started on picture books, through Peter and Jane to books about what they were interested in.

We got a Ladybird book on cricket for an American friend of ours who was working with OH and wanted to know its history and rules. :-)

I have over 400 of them, back in the 90's when OH was picking up die cast vehicles from the car boot i decided that I had to have something to go for. So I chose ladybird books. They are all on a shelf specially built to size by OH.

Anne

I still have 'The Wise Robin' bought by my grandmother when I was about age 6. I loved it. You can tell because I looked after it. :-)

I have several tucked away and remember my son enjoying them. I taught him to read from them too when he was quite young. Maybe one day I can do the same for his children

Lizx

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are okay.

I am sorry I am a bit late returning to the post.

Thank you all very much for your replies.

I am very glad you have good memories of these lovely books.

One of the happiest sights is to watch a child learning to read.

Thank you all.


Take gentle care
With best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

If my memory serves me right, the Janet and John books, though horrifyingly sexist 'John flies his kite, see Janet, see how John flies his kite', (you're a girl, what would you want with a kite?) then 'Janet goes home to help mummy with the dinner before daddy gets home', (and John finishes flying his kite) and many of the Ladybird books didn't contract words, or perhaps I should say, did not contract words.

Therefore, those of us forced to read this excruciating stuff (that is Janet and John. Ladybird books were good) at least know should've is should have and not should of (which it sounds like), could've is could have and didn't is did not, not a word - didunt - in it's own right :-D