Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Ladybird Books green plaque, Angel Yard, Loughborough. 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.
He joined Ladybird Books in 1963, and joined Harry Wingfield in illustrating many titles in its new Key Words Reading Scheme books, also known as Peter and Jane, which were used to teach so many British children to read. The consistency, naturalistic style and attention to detail of the artist made him a favourite with the prolific British ...
The Key Words Reading Scheme is a series of 36 English language early readers children's books, published by the British publishing company, Ladybird Books.The series are also often referred to as Peter and Jane, the names of the main characters.
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]
Penguin Books revived the Ladybird Books brand, which had achieved iconic status publishing 646 classic pocket-sized mini-hardback children's books between the 1940s and the 1980s, in 2015 with a series of spoof books called Ladybird for Grown Ups which paired classic illustrations with new text written by TV comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris to great commercial success.
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.
Well Loved Tales was a series of illustrated re-tellings of fairy tales and other traditional stories published by Ladybird between 1964 and the early 1990s. The books were labelled as "easy reading" and were graded depending on such aspects as their length, complexity and vocabulary.
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.