A new Ladybird book-themed exhibition, The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists, is heading to Stapleford Granary.

Many children learned to read with Peter and Jane in the Key Words Reading Scheme books Ladybird Books is celebrating its 100th anniversary. The books delighted children for decades, but what did they ...

LADYBIRD BOOKS are something of a British institution. The slim volumes—11.5cm x 18cm and 56 pages—were designed so that they could be printed from a single sheet of paper known as a “quad crown”; ...

Hilariously, the books still use original artwork – meet the original hipster (Picture: Amazon) Ladybird books have gone a bit dark. The most stressful thing that used to happen in Ladybird books when ...

Navigating modern, adult life can be difficult. The monotonous meetings. The never-ending hangovers. The politics of dating. So thank God for those Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups which have helped guide ...

The much-loved Ladybird series has undergone a reinvention to celebrate its centenary year by releasing a series of books exclusively for grown-ups. The spoof guides, including How it Works: The ...

Ladybird, the iconic publisher of children’s books including the classic Peter and Jane reading scheme, has vowed to remove any “boy” or “girl” labels from its books because it doesn’t want “to be ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over the past six years there has been a surge of interest in collectable Ladybird books thanks to people now ...

They’re part of our national fabric: a throwback to happier, gentler, more innocent times. Their tone was simple but helpful, their illustrations were small-scale works of art, their world was one of ...

Artwork by illustrators from the classic Ladybird Books is to be explored in an exhibition. The books, which started life in Loughborough about 100 years ago, have enthralled generations of children ...

THE books of our childhood occupy a magical place in our memories. For people of a certain age, none are more evocative than the works of Ladybird. The distinctive logo was familiar on bookshelves in ...