Look hard enough at any bookshelf in Britain and you’ll probably find a Ladybird book. Rooting around my family home, I find The Postman and the Postal Service, Rumpelstiltskin and How It Works: The ...

The idyllic - but pretty outdated - scenes in the Ladybird books were updated in the 70s and 80s to reflect Britain's changing society - but can you spot the difference? Fans of the Ladybird Books are ...

Those books that you don’t sell on at the end of your university career. Ladybird books covered a huge range of topics. So you might find it a little unexpected then that our subject here is a ...

“It’s basically a Ladybird book,” said local tour guide Ian Jelf, during our lunchtime ramble around what is, by some ...

but generations of children that grew up reading Ladybird books are likely to agree that the publisher’s red and black beetle symbol really does belong in that category. The imprint, which is now part ...

It came courtesy of a children’s book, one of the Ladybird series that will be familiar to British people of a Certain Age: [George Dobbs, G3RJV]’s Making A Transistor Radio. This book built ...

Gavin Francis’s meditative travelogue takes in history as well as geography, exploring how bridges can also be barriers ...

"In my time the retail of second-hand and vintage books has changed beyond recognition," says Ms Lee, who has been working for Oxfam for two decades. "Things like Ladybird books, lovely old ...

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience and ...

By Catherine Hong The Coming of the ‘Messiah’: How Handel’s Masterpiece Was Born John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political ...

It is inspired by the Ladybird Book series "People at Work" which was released 60 years ago by the then Loughborough-based publisher. The piece is divided into six sections and looks at uniformed ...

which is on hold as he gets Ladybird up and running and works on opening a second Britesmith location on Niagara Street in March. BestCellar Book Bar, a hybrid bookstore and bar, is opening Nov ...