Starting the day with a reflective reading from my personal holiest book of wisdom. #LadybirdBooks
December 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Starting the day with a reflective reading from my personal holiest book of wisdom. #LadybirdBooks
Memories of a time before kids got a Playstaion for Christmas!
#ladybirdbooks
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#ladybirdbooks
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Making a Transistor Radio : G. C. Dobbs : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A Ladybird book, the only one in the 724 series, detailing how to make a transistor radio. Illustrated by B. H. Robinson, with ISBN 0721403247.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Memories of a time before kids got a Playstaion for Christmas!
#ladybirdbooks
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#ladybirdbooks
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I would really like to live in vintage Ladybird book land. 🐞
#books #LadybirdBooks #children #childhood #winter #christmas #countryside #England
I still have some of mine.😍
#books #LadybirdBooks #children #childhood #winter #christmas #countryside #England
I still have some of mine.😍
December 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I would really like to live in vintage Ladybird book land. 🐞
#books #LadybirdBooks #children #childhood #winter #christmas #countryside #England
I still have some of mine.😍
#books #LadybirdBooks #children #childhood #winter #christmas #countryside #England
I still have some of mine.😍
My perfect world. ❄️☃️🏘️
I'd have something in the slow cooker too. 🍲🍷🎄
#LadybirdBooks #vintage #books #children #art #Christmas 🐞
I'd have something in the slow cooker too. 🍲🍷🎄
#LadybirdBooks #vintage #books #children #art #Christmas 🐞
Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 4
‘Winter Village’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Winter Village’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
December 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
My perfect world. ❄️☃️🏘️
I'd have something in the slow cooker too. 🍲🍷🎄
#LadybirdBooks #vintage #books #children #art #Christmas 🐞
I'd have something in the slow cooker too. 🍲🍷🎄
#LadybirdBooks #vintage #books #children #art #Christmas 🐞
Check out these awesome vintage Lady Bird books which have been donated for our Christmas Fayre this Saturday… these bring back some memories!
#vintage #ladybirdbooks
#vintage #ladybirdbooks
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Check out these awesome vintage Lady Bird books which have been donated for our Christmas Fayre this Saturday… these bring back some memories!
#vintage #ladybirdbooks
#vintage #ladybirdbooks
Tootles the Taxi is the greatest book of all time. This is why I created Co-Co the Caravan in Hama beads. #LadybirdBooks #childhood 🐞❤️
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Tootles the Taxi is the greatest book of all time. This is why I created Co-Co the Caravan in Hama beads. #LadybirdBooks #childhood 🐞❤️
“‘I will give you three days,’ said he, ‘and if within that time you discover my name you shall keep the child’” ~ 'Rumpelstiltskin' from Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812), The Grimm Brothers.
#BookWormSat #LadybirdBooks
#BookWormSat #LadybirdBooks
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“‘I will give you three days,’ said he, ‘and if within that time you discover my name you shall keep the child’” ~ 'Rumpelstiltskin' from Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812), The Grimm Brothers.
#BookWormSat #LadybirdBooks
#BookWormSat #LadybirdBooks
a day late but can't resist the combination of Ladybird & bats.
just found out most bats have better eyesight than most rats, btw!
#bats #rodents #art #LadybirdBooks #nature
just found out most bats have better eyesight than most rats, btw!
#bats #rodents #art #LadybirdBooks #nature
The day to show some love to these beautiful bats
#Halloween
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Sea and Air Mammals, 1972
#Halloween
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton
Sea and Air Mammals, 1972
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
a day late but can't resist the combination of Ladybird & bats.
just found out most bats have better eyesight than most rats, btw!
#bats #rodents #art #LadybirdBooks #nature
just found out most bats have better eyesight than most rats, btw!
#bats #rodents #art #LadybirdBooks #nature
October 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Found this while clearing out the loft at mum's.
Christmas is coming you lucky people.
#ladybirdbooks 🐞
Christmas is coming you lucky people.
#ladybirdbooks 🐞
October 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Found this while clearing out the loft at mum's.
Christmas is coming you lucky people.
#ladybirdbooks 🐞
Christmas is coming you lucky people.
#ladybirdbooks 🐞
October 2, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Out now for 7+ readers, fabulous nonfiction read Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World by Molly Oldfield has the answer to a child’s question for every day of the year.
#LadybirdBooks @antswilkinson.bsky.social
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
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#LadybirdBooks @antswilkinson.bsky.social
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
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Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World: by Molly Oldfield
Cover illustration © Ladybird Books Ltd, 2025 Like many others, I love a nonfiction title – the older I get, the more I realise I don’t actually know a lot about a wealth of subjects an…
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September 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Out now for 7+ readers, fabulous nonfiction read Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World by Molly Oldfield has the answer to a child’s question for every day of the year.
#LadybirdBooks @antswilkinson.bsky.social
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
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#LadybirdBooks @antswilkinson.bsky.social
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
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Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield looks like just my kind of nonfiction read, with a curious question for every day of the year. Out 04/09 for 7+ readers, huge thanks go to @antswilkinson.bsky.social #ladybirdbooks 🌞
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
September 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Everything Under the Sun by Molly Oldfield looks like just my kind of nonfiction read, with a curious question for every day of the year. Out 04/09 for 7+ readers, huge thanks go to @antswilkinson.bsky.social #ladybirdbooks 🌞
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
#KidlitUK #UKKidlit
OTD in 1422 King Henry V dies in France.
‘Henry was only 35 when he died, and he had been King for less than 10 years. During this short time he had created … a pride in being English.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #31August #HenryV
‘Henry was only 35 when he died, and he had been King for less than 10 years. During this short time he had created … a pride in being English.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #31August #HenryV
August 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
OTD in 1422 King Henry V dies in France.
‘Henry was only 35 when he died, and he had been King for less than 10 years. During this short time he had created … a pride in being English.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #31August #HenryV
‘Henry was only 35 when he died, and he had been King for less than 10 years. During this short time he had created … a pride in being English.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #31August #HenryV
OTD in 1716 Lancelot “Capability” Brown is born.
‘He designed the parks with carefully arranged trees and sometimes a building such as a grotto or a temple.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #30August #CapabilityBrown
‘He designed the parks with carefully arranged trees and sometimes a building such as a grotto or a temple.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #30August #CapabilityBrown
August 30, 2025 at 3:52 AM
OTD in 1716 Lancelot “Capability” Brown is born.
‘He designed the parks with carefully arranged trees and sometimes a building such as a grotto or a temple.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #30August #CapabilityBrown
‘He designed the parks with carefully arranged trees and sometimes a building such as a grotto or a temple.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #30August #CapabilityBrown
OTD in 1831 Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
‘With simple apparatus, consisting of a magnet, a copper disc, and wire, he made, or induced an electric current.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #29August #Faraday
‘With simple apparatus, consisting of a magnet, a copper disc, and wire, he made, or induced an electric current.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #29August #Faraday
August 29, 2025 at 4:54 AM
OTD in 1831 Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
‘With simple apparatus, consisting of a magnet, a copper disc, and wire, he made, or induced an electric current.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #29August #Faraday
‘With simple apparatus, consisting of a magnet, a copper disc, and wire, he made, or induced an electric current.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #29August #Faraday
OTD in 1921 Babe Ruth starts a streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games.
‘Baseball … as important to Americans as Test Cricket … to Englishmen.’
Words: David Scott Daniell
Artist: Jack Matthew
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #28August #Baseball
‘Baseball … as important to Americans as Test Cricket … to Englishmen.’
Words: David Scott Daniell
Artist: Jack Matthew
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #28August #Baseball
August 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
OTD in 1921 Babe Ruth starts a streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games.
‘Baseball … as important to Americans as Test Cricket … to Englishmen.’
Words: David Scott Daniell
Artist: Jack Matthew
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #28August #Baseball
‘Baseball … as important to Americans as Test Cricket … to Englishmen.’
Words: David Scott Daniell
Artist: Jack Matthew
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #28August #Baseball
OTD in 1883 the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa reaches its peak.
‘This did more damage than the hydrogen bomb. Thirty thousand people were killed and it blew the island off the earth.’
Words: Allen White BSc
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #27August #Krakatoa
‘This did more damage than the hydrogen bomb. Thirty thousand people were killed and it blew the island off the earth.’
Words: Allen White BSc
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #27August #Krakatoa
August 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
OTD in 1883 the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa reaches its peak.
‘This did more damage than the hydrogen bomb. Thirty thousand people were killed and it blew the island off the earth.’
Words: Allen White BSc
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #27August #Krakatoa
‘This did more damage than the hydrogen bomb. Thirty thousand people were killed and it blew the island off the earth.’
Words: Allen White BSc
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #27August #Krakatoa
OTD in 1346 the French lose the Battle of Crecy.
‘About 6000 English and Welsh longbowmen defeated an army of French crossbowmen and armoured cavalry greatly superior in numbers.’
Words: Edmund Hunter
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #26Aug #Crecy #Longbow
‘About 6000 English and Welsh longbowmen defeated an army of French crossbowmen and armoured cavalry greatly superior in numbers.’
Words: Edmund Hunter
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #26Aug #Crecy #Longbow
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
OTD in 1346 the French lose the Battle of Crecy.
‘About 6000 English and Welsh longbowmen defeated an army of French crossbowmen and armoured cavalry greatly superior in numbers.’
Words: Edmund Hunter
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #26Aug #Crecy #Longbow
‘About 6000 English and Welsh longbowmen defeated an army of French crossbowmen and armoured cavalry greatly superior in numbers.’
Words: Edmund Hunter
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #26Aug #Crecy #Longbow
OTD in 1609 Galileo demonstrated one of his early telescopes to Venetian lawmakers.
‘He learned to grind and polish glass to make lenses … which magnified eight times.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #25August #Galileo #Telescope
‘He learned to grind and polish glass to make lenses … which magnified eight times.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #25August #Galileo #Telescope
August 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
OTD in 1609 Galileo demonstrated one of his early telescopes to Venetian lawmakers.
‘He learned to grind and polish glass to make lenses … which magnified eight times.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #25August #Galileo #Telescope
‘He learned to grind and polish glass to make lenses … which magnified eight times.’
Words: Richard Bowood
Artist: Robert Ayton
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #25August #Galileo #Telescope
August 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
OTD in 79AD Pliny the Younger witnesses the devastation of Pompeii & Herculaneum.
‘It was from his uncle’s villa near Naples that Pliny, as a young man, watched the eruption of Vesuvius.’
Words: Clarence Greig BA MA
Artist: Jorge Nunez
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #24Aug #Vesuvius
‘It was from his uncle’s villa near Naples that Pliny, as a young man, watched the eruption of Vesuvius.’
Words: Clarence Greig BA MA
Artist: Jorge Nunez
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #24Aug #Vesuvius
August 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
OTD in 79AD Pliny the Younger witnesses the devastation of Pompeii & Herculaneum.
‘It was from his uncle’s villa near Naples that Pliny, as a young man, watched the eruption of Vesuvius.’
Words: Clarence Greig BA MA
Artist: Jorge Nunez
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #24Aug #Vesuvius
‘It was from his uncle’s villa near Naples that Pliny, as a young man, watched the eruption of Vesuvius.’
Words: Clarence Greig BA MA
Artist: Jorge Nunez
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #24Aug #Vesuvius
OTD in 55 BC Julius Caesar lands near to Ebbsfleet with a force of 12,000 soldiers.
‘The Standard Bearer of the X Legion leapt into the water and called on the soldiers to follow him.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #23August #Caesar #Roman
‘The Standard Bearer of the X Legion leapt into the water and called on the soldiers to follow him.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #23August #Caesar #Roman
August 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
OTD in 55 BC Julius Caesar lands near to Ebbsfleet with a force of 12,000 soldiers.
‘The Standard Bearer of the X Legion leapt into the water and called on the soldiers to follow him.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #23August #Caesar #Roman
‘The Standard Bearer of the X Legion leapt into the water and called on the soldiers to follow him.’
Artist: John Kenney
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #23August #Caesar #Roman
OTD in 1485 the Tudor era begins.
‘The claim of King Henry VII to the throne … was strengthened by his victory at Bosworth, on the battlefield of which he was immediately crowned.’
Artist: Frank Hampson
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #22August #HenryVII #Bosworth #Tudor
‘The claim of King Henry VII to the throne … was strengthened by his victory at Bosworth, on the battlefield of which he was immediately crowned.’
Artist: Frank Hampson
(c) Wills & Hepworth Ltd.
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #22August #HenryVII #Bosworth #Tudor
August 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
OTD in 1911 da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre and not recovered for over 2 years.
‘We are told that Leonardo engaged musicians and jesters to keep her amused as he painted.’
Words: Dorothy Aitchison
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(c)Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #21Aug #MonaLisa
‘We are told that Leonardo engaged musicians and jesters to keep her amused as he painted.’
Words: Dorothy Aitchison
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(c)Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #21Aug #MonaLisa
August 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
OTD in 1911 da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre and not recovered for over 2 years.
‘We are told that Leonardo engaged musicians and jesters to keep her amused as he painted.’
Words: Dorothy Aitchison
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(c)Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #21Aug #MonaLisa
‘We are told that Leonardo engaged musicians and jesters to keep her amused as he painted.’
Words: Dorothy Aitchison
Artist: Martin Aitchison
(c)Wills & Hepworth Ltd
#LadybirdBooks #OTD #21Aug #MonaLisa