The Wonderful World of Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups (Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)

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From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris - a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. The point about the original illustrations, he says, is that they were by artists who were at the very top of their game, and working in an idiom that was modern at the time.

If you are interested in computers, their function and operation, but are discouraged by their complexity, you should read this book,” said the introduction. Their success could only create a wash of good feeling across the publishing and bookselling industry, which largely have them, and their spin-offs, to thank for bumper Christmas sales. Illustrations in this series were by Harry Wingfield, John Berry, Martin Aitchison, Frank Hampson and Charles Tunnicliffe. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ladybird's Key Words Reading Scheme was used by many British primary schools to help children learn to read.

As Brexit reaches its final stretch, find a way to laugh through the pain and or celebrate the end with Ladybird's hilarious and essential guide, The Story of Brexit. Seller had listed the kettles size wrong and had asked to cancel but without waiting to hear from me he sent it anyway and I’d by then bought another. They are baby-sitters, weather forecasters, mother’s helpers, sweet collectors, child-minders, knitwear suppliers, au-pairs, curators of G-Plan furniture and providers of day-care for the under twelves. The Ladybird offices and printing factory in Loughborough closed the same year, and much of the company's archive of historic artwork was transferred to public collections.

They are co-creators of spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner (awards pending) and the bestselling but still-waiting-to-be-award-winning offbeat travel guides Bollocks to Alton Towers and Far from the Sodding Crowd.

The issue of damage to a brand that Penguin Random House was prepared to go to law to protect raises questions about what that brand is today. The contradictions are most evident in the Climate Change book, which aimed to draw attention to an urgent 21st-century issue, while nodding back to the aesthetics of the 50s and 60s - with the curious result that it appears to endorse the Prince of Wales’s reactionary views on architecture, and, by extension, society. It takes her forty five minutes to pack the bag with the change mat, nappies, wipes, nappy bags Sudocrem, milk, muslins, teething powders, rice cakes, bibs, Calpol, spare clothes, dummy, first aid kit, Mr Bun-Bun and hand gel. The Ladybird Book of the Sickie – a nugget of wisdom from bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris.