Flood, Alison (20 November 2014). "Ladybird drops branding books 'for boys' or 'for girls' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 November 2014.

Spoof artist takes her revenge | The Times". The Times. 15 September 2014 . Retrieved 30 December 2015. However, I can safely say that I positively love his artwork in one little group of books which I haven’t mentioned till now: the Do You Know books. These 3 titles were part of the group of books to support the Key Word reading scheme books, a set which also included Danger Men, Record Breakers and Some Great Men and Women.In November 2014, Ladybird signed up to the Let Books Be Books campaign and announced that it was "committed" to avoiding labelling books as "for girls" or "for boys" and would be removing such gender labelling in reprinted copies. The publisher added: "Out of literally hundreds of titles currently in print, we actually only have six titles with this kind of titling". Its parent company, Penguin Random House Children's division, would also be following suit. [6] [7] Ladybird drops gender-specific children's book titles". BBC News. 21 November 2014 . Retrieved 24 November 2014. The exhibition is based on my own collection of artwork and artefacts – and the only Humphris artwork I own is this visual recount of Mutiny on the Bounty from a 1970s edition of Look and Learn magazine. I put it on display when the exhibition opened in Canterbury but since then I have had to cut down the number of artists included and, without the original Ladybird artwork, he didn’t make the cut. Original artwork for Look and Learn Magazine – Mutiny on the Bounty In short, in terms of children’s book publishing at this time, Wills & Hepworth were making things up as they went along. And that’s no small part of the charm for me.

By the 1950s, the success of book publication began to eclipse the other aspects of the compay’s output and the approach to production became ever more standardised – although they retained a rather quirky ‘ kitchen-table‘ flavour throughout the life-span of the company. Johnson, L. and B. Alderson (2014). The Ladybird Story: Children’s Books for Everyone . The British Library, pp. 1-66.Before 1965 Ladybird books were published with dust-wrappers. After 1965 the books were produced with a matt-finish pictorial board. In the 1980s the books began to have gloss-finish boards. And even when an edition is stated, it really isn’t clear what that means. Sometimes a book from an earlier and a later edition are identical in every detail while books in the same edition can be different in quite striking ways. The last time I met him was shortly before he died. Sadly, he had lost nearly all his sight, and needed to be helped around by his wife. My mother became very friendly with her after his death. She was a lovely Irish lady, who had met him when he was a young art student. She had been his life model at the time. Wills & Hepworth began publishing Ladybird books in 1914. Their range of children’s books evolved into Ladybird books the 1940s. Ladybird books today In the 1960s, Ladybird produced the Learnabout series of non-fiction (informational) books, some of which were used by adults as well as children.