A vixen with her family of small cubs in the shelter of a hollow by a large tree. She stands protectively with ears alert as if she has just heard a sound.

Other work of the Ladybird artists.
Fox and Cubs
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Quarrymen's cottages National Slate Museum Amgueddfa Cymru Llanberis

Fron Haul

Breaking: JD Vance just arrived in the Cotswolds, UK, on holiday.

Apparently having this meme on his phone got one tourist banned from entering the US.

So here it is on a huge billboard near where JD's holidaying 👍

📍Cheltenham, Cotswolds, UK

A boy walks along the beach, wearing a long sleeved shirt and shorts and carrying a towel under his arm. He is wearing socks and Start-rite sandals. and is looking straight at the viewer.

Styling out the socks-with-sandals look

(Words for Numbers, 1968)
Artist: Kenneth Inns

Usk town clock flowers buildings

Usk

A mother and two children are out picking blackberries on the slopes above a small cove on a sunny day

Picking blackberries
(Brambling)

Artist: A Buchanan, 1969

Tunnicliffe, wheat harvest, with a what is likely a D-4 caterpillar pulling an older reaper binder, transitional late 1940s/50s technology. Still stooking sheaths by hand. A horse could have pulled a binder like that on that farm a decade earlier. Elm survived 1930s epidemic, but probably not 1960s

This illustration was for a calendar sponsored by the brewery Whitbread. The focus of the calendar is on hedgerows but here the plants are clustered around a stone wall

Other work of the Ladybird artists
‘August’
Whitbread calendar, 1971
Artist: SR Badmin

A flock of sparrows are enjoying the wheat which is golden and ready to harvest. The field is fringed with wild flowers including poppy

“When the corn is ripe, flocks of sparrows raid the heavy-grain ears.”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Stylised aerial view looking down at an area divided in two by a sort of conceptual diagonal with a small quaint village in the bottom right segment and a modern motorway system on the left

The modern world in old Ladybird books.
"Our roads are being improved in every way" (1966)

Artist: Ronald Lampitt
(Our Land in the Making)

Front Page of the Day:

He will not be deterred.

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

Exactly. Fascism doesn’t creep in politely — it pushes until we either give way or push back harder.
The fight now isn’t just about resisting, it’s about winning. Here’s how we do it:
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The walnut tree is in the foreground of this illustration, which focuses on the thick trunk and gnarly bark. The dogwood is in the background in a meadow behind a five bar gate leading to distant hills

Ladybird Book of Trees, 1963
Walnut and Dogwood
Artist: SR Badmin

To the other countries of the world…begin lobbying your leaders…NOW….to skip the 2028 Olympics in the United States.

You just gotta LOVE MAD MAGAZINE!!!

Some gold detailing above the Oval Office entrance.

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

Some gold detailing at the Hôtel de la Marine

the lack of crispness in the detailing of this is so funny to me. truly Temu level shit

Pic 1: Oval Office
Pics 2, 3, and 4: Hôtel de la Marine

Sheep are grazing on the open fields of uplands at sunset. The sunset is the star of the show with pinks and purples that look much more luminous in the book than my photo

‘Hill farm at Dusk’
The Farmer, 1963
Artist: John Berry

Colourful houses, Llandeilo - steep street with trees

Thanks to everyone for the likes and shares Diolch yn fawr iawn

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Life in the Corn’ (Shell Guide, 1956)
Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

The front covers in a grid of 16 books from the ‘hobbies’ Ladybird series

Ladybird cover stories.
‘Things to Make and Do’
(1963 - 1978)

8/5/2025- The Resignation Letter www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/au...

Illustration of a small boy in a red and white striped T-shirt holding a buttercup under the chin of a little girl who obligingly tips her head back

Buttercups - the way to find out if your friend likes butter.

(Treasure Magazine, 1963)
Artist: Clive Uptton

A column of men with receding headlines and sharp partings stand sorting mail into pigeon holes. They are standing in a long thin chamber: a railway carriage adapted for mail. The men are all wearing sandy coloured coats to protect their clothes.

The modern world in old Ladybird books.
The mail train, 1965

Artist: John Berry
(The Postman)

Two children playing with a toy farm. The girl, wearing jeans, is pointing to a cow as if giving instructions to the boy, holding a red tractor, to relocate it

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things
Toy farm (1972)
Artist: Harry Wingfield

Llys Llywelyn

Llys Llywelyn

Illustration showing a young boy, neatly dressed in red jumper and grey shorts, and a little girl wearing a blue apron, helping their mother to apply polish to a wooden table

‘Chores’
Helping at Home, (1960)
Artist: Harry Wingfield

An aerial view looking down over what would be John Major’s idea of quintessentially English summer day, with a small village, meandering stream and cricket match in progress

Other work of the Ladybird artists
‘Sunday Afternoon’
(The design for a jigsaw)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt