Ladybird Histories: British History

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Highlights from the collection now feature in the Ladybird Gallery at The Museum of English Rural Life, which opened in 2016, generously funded by Ladybird Books Ltd.It is packed with information about topics children will learn at school, including the Romans, the Tudors, and Victorian Britain. joint venture with Leonine Holding, The Walt Disney Company, Bauer Media Group and Hubert Burda Media. Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history. Written by the celebrated geologist, academic and popular science presenter Iain Stewart, Plate Tectonics explores the Earth as a planetary machine and investigates the people and ideas that changed the way we look at the world. He is fascinated by how many times The British Isles has been invaded and quite horrified by how people in the past had to live (or die).

Ladybird Books are a fond childhood memory for many people who grew up during their heyday from the 1940s to the 1980s. From 1945 onwards the Ladybird offering really started to grow, first with the introduction of their non-fiction Uncle Mac titles – the first one, In Green Pastures, published in 1945 – and with more books added to series 401 and 413 and then series 474 (Tasseltip tales) from 1947 and series 497 (Animal tales) from 1949. In fact, there must be very few people in their 30s, 40s, 50s and even 60s who don’t remember a Ladybird book. The publisher added: "Out of literally hundreds of titles currently in print, we actually only have six titles with this kind of titling".You'll discover the common origins of dogs and Brussels sprouts, how it is we're all mutants, where wings, ears and tails came from, why sex is good for you, how some dinosaurs evolved and survived, and why human evolution may finally have stopped.

This relates to the number of Ladybird books in publication at a particular time and this figure was often mentioned on the last few pages, rear dust jacket flap and then on the rear board of the book as well. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. You'll learn about the make up of the Earth in the past and the present, from monsoon-like currents in our planet's radioactive interior to magnetic force lines and what the planet would look like without water. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The dust-jacket remains unclipped and is in good clean condition, except for a small white scuff mark to the middle of . In 1996 Ladybird Books became a subsidiary of the Penguin Books Group and in 1998 Penguin took over the management of the company, closing the iconic Loughborough printing works later that same year. It is a "general" book but has facts in it and also gives an idea of how ordinary people lived, worked, dressed, and thought.

Children of the late 1980s might have developed their reading instead with the Puddle Lane Reading Programme, another very popular reading scheme published by Ladybird.

Often used in teaching and community sessions, our Ladybird book collection includes many well known titles, such as Peter and Jane stories, ‘What to look for’, ‘How it works’, fairy tales, historical and educational titles, alongside the recent Ladybirds for Grown-Ups series.