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Have you read Ladybird books?

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RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 19 Jan 2015 01:08

I think you will find that Ladybird got started in Loughboro' about 100 years ago.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 19 Jan 2015 10:22

I bought our eldest some of the reading scheme books when she started being taught at school. They might have been Peter and Pat or something like that.

The delight on her face when she realised she could read them was priceless :-D

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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 23 Jan 2015 15:54

Interesting article about Ladybird books in the DM:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2922746/Penknives-airguns-Ladybird-books-joyous-age-elf-n-safety-forgot.html

I used to try their experiments :-D

How many others did - and do you still have your eyebrows? :-0

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 23 Jan 2015 16:13

Maggie, I so agree with you about should've, should have and not should of. What is worse you even see this in newspapers and magazines. ugh!!

I taught my daughter to read before she went to school with Ladybird. (about 1964 I also taught, or tried to teach, my son in about 1971. He wasn't having any. Yet it was interesting that by the age of seven, they had both reached the same standard of reading. :-)

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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 23 Jan 2015 16:38

Ann,
I taught myself to read, before going to school, using the Beano and Dandy!!!
We moved around a lot and mum always threw out books - apart from an Enid Blyton - which I hated - hence the comics :-D
By the time I was 6, and we were living in Scotland, I could read 'The Broons' and 'Oor Wullie' annuals - they're written in a Scottish dialect

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Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

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