Well-Loved Tales: Cinderella

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Although in later editions it was issued with fewer poems and plates, this book remained a favourite and made it through the DJ era and into the matt-boards era although printing seems to have stopped sometime before decimilisation. Then in 1977 an entirely different collection of poems was published as ‘Bedtime Rhymes’– this time an anthology by different writers, edited by Audrey Daly. Although quite a modern title, this one is already remembered with affection by parents who read the verses to their now grown up children. Judging by the number of people who enquire after this book, by far and away the most popular rhyme is “When Daddy Fell into the Pond”. Here’s another title originally from the wonderful 563 series which found it’s way, years later, into a different version: If you are interested in old Ladybird Fairy Tales, take care to sort out your 413s from your 606ds! And for more on 606ds, see below. Nursery Rhymes Garden Flowers was revised in a similar way – with the beautiful Leigh-Pemberton illustrations of the original replaced by photos and description by Harry Stanton. This book, however, remained in series 536. Prayers and Hymns

Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. The story of Peter and the Wolf was written as a musical composition for children by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. Since it was first performed in 1936, Peter and the Wolf has been used to teach millions of children about the way music can be used to tell a story. As you can see here, the whole ‘How it Works’ series 654 underwent a complete cover makeover when they were updated at the end of the 70s. Some books (such as ‘The Motor Car’) had already been revised by then. Two other books: Railways and Flight were re-issued with different covers, and slightly revised contents to encompass recent development.Cinderella is a Level 1 Read it yourself title, suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words. Read more Details On the top row, the original format. 27 titles were published like this between 1964 and 1974. They are all written by Vera Southgate and wonderfully illustrated by Eric Winter and Robert Lumley (and one – Princess and the Frog – by Capaldi). The format always had the text on the left and the pictures on the right. The prize for the most identity-confused series must go to the 727 Conservation series. As you will see below, sometimes titles from this series were issued with 2 very different covers but the same contents within them. However, the following two titles were originally published in series 536 (Natural History) and were completely re-written and re-illustrated before they turned up in the 727 series. In the case of ‘Wild Flowers’ the later version was illustrated with photographs (sigh). In the case of Butterflies and Moths, Leigh-Pemberton, who had originally only illustrated the 536 version (only!) was now given free reign. He wrote and illustrated the later version, and a very nice book it is too.

Most of the books in this series were issued in only one version. However, Exploring Space was revised for obvious reasons. Here, as an example, you can see that the bunny and baby piglet have been ‘borrowed’ from this MacGregor illustration to help compose the cover picture shown above. But in the early 70s a further 6 of the original titles were reissued again; This time the cover changed for the last time to the full pictorial covers produced in the 70s and 80s. The Runaway Bunny’s First Birthday Bob Bushtail’s Adventure Mr Badger to the Rescue The First Day of the Holidays The Bunney-Fluff’s Moving Day I couldn’t put it off any longer. Cinderella. If you’re male, skip this posting. You won’t get it. It’s a girl thing. Another series that has been updated is the ‘Famous People’ series. At least, Diana and the Queen Mum had this honour – one revision when they were alive, and one after their death.A number of very different Ladybird books share the same title – just to confuse people: Tootles the Taxi The topic for your Ladybird Books thesis is “Why did they bother?” What, in 1980, was deemed unacceptable about the 1960s version that led Ladybird to go to the expense of completely re-commisioning 6 of their best selling titles? Anyway, this picture shows the 3 incarnations of ‘Nelson’ and ”Kings and Queens books 1 and 2 – the first 2 in each row are basically the same books (by L du Garde Peach) with different style cover; the last is the re-written version – Nelson by Frank Humphris, Kings and Queens by Brenda Ralph-Lewis. Bible stories: 606a Of course the ‘Recognition’ series (584) was demanding in terms of revision. I have 6 different versions of ‘Motor Cars’ on my shelf. Here you can see the 3 versions of ‘Aircraft’ Ladybird Tales are based on the original Ladybird retellings by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best - full of richness and detail. Children have always loved, and will always remember, these classic fairy tales and sharing them together is an experience to treasure. Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. Read more Details Based on the classic fairy tale. Cinderella's dream of going to the prince's ball comes true when her fairy godmother appears. But she'd better be home by midnight...

Look how far Ladybird had come between the 1940s and the 1980s! The Daddy of the Noel Barr stories would never had done anything so undignified – and the water might have put out his pipe. The final version of Bedtime Rhymes dates from 1995 and again seems to be an anthology of rhymes and lullabies – rather more traditional ones this time – such as Twinkle Twinkle.Another title from the 413 series gets confused with later versions. Nursery Rhymes first appeared in the ‘Auntie Muriel’ collection of books, series 413, in 1941, illustrated by Robert Knight. In 1965, just after the DJ era, a set of three volumes of Nursery Rhymes were produced to replace the original version, this time illustrated with the slightly surreal eye of Frank Hampson. I can remember being intrigued and frightened by some of these picture in about equal measure as a child. There followed book 2 and book 3 – also illustrated by Frank Hampson The Snowman