Ladybird books

nlgbbbblth

http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/ladybird/ladybird_series_606d.php

Halfway down the page is a list of titles. Some of the covers bring back long-buried memories.

- The Magic Porridge Pot
- The Wolf And The Seven Little Kids
- The Sly Fox And The Little Red Hen
- The Little Red Hen And The Grains Of Wheat

Will you read them to your children?

steveone

absolutely.....
i can't stand this rash of modern so called childrens books and tv.. with feckin pontypines and ninkynoos:mad: that rugrats ****e where the kids can't speak properly.., dora the explorer --more like the headwrecker... ..no cartoons of worth at all --the kids will need all the help the can get...thank god for box sets..and bosco...

Miss Fluff

Ah bless you OP! Read through the list and we read them all as kids! I remember being particularly taken with The Enormous Turnip and The Magic Porridge Pot and of course Rumpelstilskin (albeit a bit sinister when you're 5!). Loving seeing the covers too - bless!!:) Will definitley read them to my kids, attribute reading stories like that to my wild imagination now.


Cinderella
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Sleeping Beauty
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Three Little Pigs
Dick Whittington and his Cat
The Gingerbread Boy
The Little Red Hen and the grains of wheat
The Princess and the Pea
Puss in Boots
Rumpelstiltskin
Beauty and the Beast
The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen
Rapunzel
The Three Billy-goats Gruff
The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
Snow-White and Rose-Red
Chicken Licken
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Enormous Turnip
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Magic Porridge Pot
The Big Pancake
Little Red Riding Hood
The Old Woman and her Pig
The Princess and the Frog
The Musicians of Bremen

Miss Fluff

Sweet baby Jesus have you seen the price of them? 48 quid sterling for Goldilocks (Miss Fluff shall have to go and visit her parents and go looking for those bad boys!!):eek:

rainbowtrout

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/


Better start printing them off then, £48 is a bit steep for a book!


The Musicians of Bremen was my favourite.

WindSock

Gasps! Memory lane ahoy! I loved the porridge pot so much, I wanted to eat the porridge from the book. I'm sure I licked the page on more than one occasion

rainbowtrout

I've just read the goose - girl there, fairly gruesome for a children's story!

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/066.txt

stovelid

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

The Magic Porridge Pot

The thought of drowning in all that porridge really scared me as a kid

Great find OP!. It's mad seeing some of those covers again.

undecided

loved lacybird read them all! Do you all remember peter and jane books hated them!

TheDriver

I have boxes of them in the garage, all the facts ones, which are great stuff! Never realised they were so valuable though!!

bullets

Ahh I remember as a Kid getting 2 Ladybird books with Audio tapes
for a friends birthday they were 4 pounds each.

I got the Mummy and Dracula.
The Friends mother ended up complaining that the presents
scared the ****e out of the friend cos of the audio cassette tapes sounds.

Around the same time there was those Aunty Poppy tell me a story magazines
and tapes out and also Planet of the Apes comics with flexi-disc records.


~B

Weidii

Got loads of those at home, but they are all scribbled on

Run_to_da_hills

Jack and the beanstalk, the little red hen and the nursery rhymes were my favorite.

IvyTheTerrible

Ahh, I loved all of these. My mum had them kept, for us to use for our future kids....they were accidently thrown on a skip when they had an extension done, along with the complete collection of Noddy books, and all Roald dahl's books..Grrr!:rolleyes:

dazberry

I still have The First Book of Aesops Fables...


Its has "Happy Birthday from Simon" on the inside as it was given to me for my 7th birthday - that was 1978 :eek:!!! Every time I see my neighbour (he's in his 70s) and the sun is beating down and he has a shirt, cardigan, jacket and coat on - I think of the sun and wind trying to get the guy to take his jacket off.

This is the series that I would remember most...
http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/ladybird/ladybird_series_606d.php

... and of course the Magic Porridge Pot

A little girl and her mother are so poor they have nothing left to eat. The little girl goes to the woods to play but is so hungry she start crying. Soon an old woman comes by and asks the girl why she is crying. The little girl tells the old woman that she is sad because she is so hungry.

The old woman, taking pity, gives her a small cooking pot and tells the girl that when ever she is hungry then all she has to do is say "Cook, little pot, cook!" and it will cook some lovely porridge - she continues by telling the girl that when she wants the pot to stop cooking she must say "Stop, little pot, stop!"

The girl and her mother were so happy that they would never go hungry again - the little girl tells her mother how to make the pot cook the porridge and how to make it stop again.

One day, when the little girl goes for a walk, her mother decides she wants some porridge to eat, so she takes the pot and says, "Cook, little pot, cook", and the pot started to cook some lovely porridge. After a while the pot starts to overflow but the woman could not remember the special words to make the porridge pot stop cooking. Eventually the prridge spills onto the kitchen floor, out the door and down the streets filling the village with porridge. The people in the village think that the whole world would soon be filled with porridge if they could not stop the pot from cooking.

Just as the porridge reached the last house in the village the little girl returned from her walk to find her mother in distress because she couldn't stop the porridge pot from cooking. The little girl then says "Stop, little pot, stop!" and at last the porridge pot stops cooking.

Anyone who wants to go into that town now, will have to eat their way through a lot of porridge!

D.

yummymummy97

I was brought up reading those books...that's all our parents gave us! So glad we have alot more choice now for our own children!

Emmi

Oh my God, what a trip down memory lane:D I used to love these books. My Mum used to buy me one every week, used to love the dresses in them!! Totally agree about all the stuff out for kids now, what a load of rubbish, no imagination!! Long live Ladybird!!!

Dudess

The dresses in Cinderella were just to die for - the Sex & The City of its day really