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A self-portrait watercolour by Harry Wingfield in his early 30s. John Henry "Harry" Wingfield (4 December 1910 – 5 March 2002) was an English illustrator, best known for his drawings that illustrated the Ladybird Books Key Words Reading Scheme (also known as Peter and Jane) in the 1960s through to the 1980s, which sold over 80 million copies worldwide.
Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. [1] The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books . It is an imprint of Penguin Random House , a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann .
As well as his book illustrations, Leigh-Pemberton carried out advertising work and decorated a number of ships. [4] He also did work for the Shell Guides series. However perhaps his best-known work was carried out for the Ladybird series of books for children, where he wrote and illustrated many of the series dealing with natural history subjects.
The Key Words Reading Scheme, taking his ideas, was first published in 1964, with Peter and Jane, and went on to sell over 80 million copies of the books in the series. [ 4 ] Peter and Jane were based on the real-life children (Jill Ashurst and Christopher Edwards) [ 5 ] of a neighbour of the books' illustrator Harry Wingfield .
The Garden Gang is a series of books for children written by Jayne Fisher.They were published by Ladybird Books during the late 1970s and early 1980s as Series 413 and later re-issued as Series 793. [1]
The Puddle Lane children's books were published by Ladybird Books during the second half of the 1980s. The stories were followed by a TV programme of the same name . Sheila K McCullagh , who wrote the stories for the TV programme, also wrote the books.
Eric Winter (15 May 1905 – 1981) was a children's illustrator, most notable for his contributions to Ladybird books. [1] Before his work for Ladybird Books, he worked on commission, producing work for Eagle , Swift and Girl magazines.
Lee and Virginia Graver Arboretum, a Muhlenberg College-owned arboretum in Bath, Pennsylvania. The Lee and Virginia Graver Arboretum (63 acres) is an arboretum owned by Muhlenberg College and located at 1581 Bushkill Center Road in Bath, Pennsylvania.