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Helen Day
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Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
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November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Thanks Joel. I’m glad you get it
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
‘The Porter’ (1972)
This was the first piece of Ladybird artwork I ever bought. It drew me in.

Artist: John Berry
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Mallards over the Marshes
Artist: Roland Green
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
True
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Me too
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
On this day 24th November 1877 the novel Black Beauty was first published.
Anna Sewell said she wrote the novel "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"
Artist: Harry Wingfield
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘Evening party at the big house’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt (1958)
November 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“Across this cloud-dappled sky skeins of wild geese are flying”
(What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Elf-made shoes
‘The Elves and the Shoemaker’, 1965
Artist: Robert Lumley
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The story of music
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
On this day 22nd November 1859 Cecil Sharp, founder of the English folk-song revival was born. (Here he’s pictured overhearing a gardener singing)
Artist: Martin Aitchison
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Such a good series
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
It would have been artist Martin Aitchison’s birthday this week (b.1919 - d. 2016)
Here are some of his books for Ladybird
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Happy Friday

(Five Little Kittens, 1955)
Artist: A Macgregor
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
❤️
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
How do you do that with paint?
The mastery of artist Harry Wingfield.
‘Cherries’
Picture Book (1973)
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Definitely. But I don’t think it’s by Kenney.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Something cheerful for a chilly November day.
This wonderful 1950s Austin car brochure was printed by Wills & Hepworth, the firm behind the 'Ladybird' brand.
(Artist uncredited)
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Oompus the omnibus,
from Tootles the Taxi (1956)
Artist: John Kenney
November 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
“The shepherd is looking up at a large skein of whooper swans which has come from colder climes. Like geese, they fly in V-formation”

(What to look for in Autumn, 1960)
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL Grant Watson
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Ladybird things I really, really wanted, part 25.
A dress with a sticky-out skirt

Artist: Kenneth Inns
November 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Shell Guide, 1955:
“Between the mild days, November frosts strip the coloured leaves of the shrubs and climbers of the hedgerow so that all the fruits of early winter show more vigourously against a paler sky”
Artists: Edith & Rowland Hilder
Writer: Geoffrey Grigson
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM