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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.
The Regional Books, a series of 31 volumes (Editor) (1952 - 1958) The First Ladybird Book of British Birds and their Nests, illus. Allen W. Seaby (1953) The Second Ladybird Book of British Birds and their Nests, illus. Allen W. Seaby (1955) The Third Ladybird Book of British Birds and their Nests (1956) The Ladybird Book of British Wild Flowers ...
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.
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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 book was launched at a reception held at Buckingham Palace on 17 February 2023, and attended by politicians, businesspeople and indigenous leaders from around the world. [1] [2] Charles had previously collaborated with Juniper and Shuckburgh on a book for adults, also titled Climate Change, and published by Ladybird in 2017. The information ...
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.
Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris are a British comedy writing duo. Their work includes a collection of parody Ladybird books, and they have written scripts for many British comedy series and films, including That Mitchell and Webb Look, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and the Paddington films.