Ladybird books Well Loved Tales

Jaygon2009

Anybody remember the old Ladybird books 'Well Loved Tales' with accompanying audio tapes. We used to do them at school and I had loads at home,all gone now. They seem to be easily found online but no sign of any of the tapes. Anybody keep any of this old stuff, I'm surpriesed that somebody hasn't copied them to mp3 somewhere online!

Jaygon2009

Anyone?

Ann22

I too remember these well. Great memories...I love the old illustrations. Have a look at these..

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=586

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=923

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=924

Jaygon2009

The audio cassettes are almost impossible to find! A terrible shame.

Ann22

Sorry Jaygon, never see them about. It'd be cool alright to hear the originals...'who's that trip trapping over my bridge?!':) That was my favourite.

Jaygon2009

I'm sure there must be a collector out there who has them. It would then just be a case of digitalising!

Thomas828

The Three Billy Goats Gruff, the Little Red Hen, the Gingerbread Man... I had at least a dozen of those books in the 70s. I never had any cassettes to go with them, though.

we'llallhavetea_old

anyone remember "the porridge pot"? it was my favourite, still have it, it's fairly battered now though.

Paddy the Greek

I have around ten of these at home....I've just uploaded an audio rip of 'Hansel & Gretel' to youtube...The tape is from 1982 so its not the best quality but here ya go....More to follow if theres demand.... Enjoy!

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA66tk9_6I
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Ab0ZUQkT8

minister poxbottle

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Anybody remember the old Ladybird books 'Well Loved Tales' with accompanying audio tapes. We used to do them at school and I had loads at home,all gone now. They seem to be easily found online but no sign of any of the tapes. Anybody keep any of this old stuff, I'm surpriesed that somebody hasn't copied them to mp3 somewhere online!

tis all we had as nippers:( try ebay

Paddy the Greek

minister poxbottle wrote: »

tis all we had as nippers:( try ebay

Well you could try ebay if you like....but try checking out my contribution before u go spending money. I've just uploaded one for now, I can upload more.............. but ill only put the effort in if its wanted..,it makes no odds to me

Ive got Elves and the shoemaker, Jack and the beanstalk, tom Thumb, Snow White...and then more contemporary stuff like Masters of the universe and The A Team....and more

lylo39

I'd say the audio tapes are very hard to get I still have alot of the books. I did see in the shop of the National Gallery that you can now get the book covers on Greeting Cards and notebooks and wrapping paper. My favourite was always Beauty and the Beast.

Jaygon2009

Hi Paddy!
Your contribution is VERY much wanted. Most of this stuff isn't even on e-bay anymore.
I would be very very grateful for any kids audio material you have from the 1970s/80's or early 90's (Hansel and Gretel was the exact one I was looking for!)

Thanks again

Paddy the Greek

This may be of use....http://www.vintageladybird.com/

stovelid

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

anyone remember "the porridge pot"? it was my favourite, still have it, it's fairly battered now though.

The magic porridge pot was my favourite too.

I remember the picture on the front being this old lady in a shawl screaming as the pot overflowed?

Edit: found it:

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/lowres/65/main/2/214993.jpg

we'llallhavetea_old

stovelid wrote: »

The magic porridge pot was my favourite too.

I remember the picture on the front being this old lady in a shawl screaming as the pot overflowed?

Edit: found it:

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/lowres/65/main/2/214993.jpg

ah yes! i think my book is covered in marker

i loved the picture of the whole town overflowing with porridge, yum!

WindSock

stovelid wrote: »

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/lowres/65/main/2/214993.jpg

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

ah yes! i think my book is covered in marker

i loved the picture of the whole town overflowing with porridge, yum!

That's the one I remember the most too. I used to get hungry reading that book when I was young. I was not too far off licking the pages! Anyway, more pics here. Memory lane ahoy!

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/search.php?page=1&numperpage=8&idx=0&keywords=magic+porridge+pot

stovelid

I recognize the covers of so many of those books as I had them at home or in school.

Some of the characters iin the books always scared me as a kid. The wolf in the Three Little Pigs and the guy in Beauty and the Beast.

Dudess

Used to get them from the mobile library. The illustrations were just beautiful.

I had a lot of the 1980s editions of these books, read them cover-to-cover many times back then. I'm sure my parents still have them, when I was cleaning out a room there a few months ago I found my old copy of Snow White and Rose Red.

anewme

We had a load of ladybird books.

I remember Chicken Licken, The enormous turnip and Ned,the Lonely Donkey!

anewme

anewme wrote: »

We had a load of ladybird books.

I remember Chicken Licken, The enormous turnip and Ned,the Lonely Donkey!

I remember Chicken Licken too, don't think I had it myself though.

Eviledna

Town Mouse and Country mouse was my favourite, the pictures of cakes and riches always made me drool. I remember being terrified by snow white and rose red, and the little evil elf who had his beard caught in a log!!

Jaygon2009

Wow- these old audio cassettes are prooving much more difficult to find than I thought. Turns out that the ones on e-bay/amazon etc. are 'Favourite Tales', Ladybird's later series 1994-2000. The original 'Well Loved Tales' (1979-1990) audio seems nowhere to be found :-(

Jaygon2009

Just thought I'd bump this on the offchance there is anyone who has these tapes and will do me a copy/rip.

the_syco

Jaygon2009 wrote: »

Just thought I'd bump this on the offchance there is anyone who has these tapes and will do me a copy/rip.

PM sent...

/edit
Actually, no PM sent. Seems my sub expired, so inbox seems to be full. Will get back to you once I get it sorted.

Jaygon2009

you can get me on jaygonlarkin@gmail.com

Cheers

darkdubh

Ann22 wrote: »

I too remember these well. Great memories...I love the old illustrations. Have a look at these..

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=586

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=923

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=924

I had the three little pig's one when i was a kid.seeing the illustrations has brought it all back.

Jaygon2009

I wonder if I could put a request/appeal onto Fix it Friday??

tk123

We had loads of the books but I don't remember having any of the tapes. Some of the books had words at the bottom of the page I think? The illustrations were great - when my pup swims in the river and gets to the deeper water with his nose in the air I always think of the illustraions with the gingerbread man on the foxes head, then his back, then his nose then nnom nnom gone!

Hey I just remembered another one we had - Aesops fabels - while the cats away the mice will play, one with a crow dropping stones in something to get a drink and the one where the fox tricks the crow and takes it's cheese! :pac:

Jaygon2009

Have managed to find a few of the tapes but still on the lookout if anybody has any!!!!

bonerm

Ann22 wrote: »

I too remember these well. Great memories...I love the old illustrations. Have a look at these..

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=586

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=923

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/collection.php?collid=924

That's a great resource.

I had this one as a kid.

http://www.ladybirdprints.com/category.php?catid=6081&page=1&numperpage=24

I got it when I was about 3 or 4 y/o and had to go to the hospital for an operation. I think my parents idea was to familiarise me the working body. I'm guessing it just freaked me out more with all the human skeletons and skinless bodies playing cricket. :rolleyes:

Run_to_da_hills

Little Red Hen and Three little pigs were favorites with us and this was long before audio cassette tapes were invented.

Rainbow_brite

Does anyone remember a series of ladybird books called "The Garden Gang" ? At the beginning of the book there used to be a description of the author, she was only 9 at the time when she wrote them, I thought that she was very cool back then. http://www.easyontheeye.net/ladybird/70s/garden/793.htm

Jaygon2009

I have one of 'The Garden Gang' audio cassettes

which brings me back to my intended question;

Has anybody come across any more or the Pickwick/Ladybird accompanying cassettes?

Ditch

Ladybird books? I guess kids, today, feel they know it all already. But, I learned a lot from these slim, simple to digest and understand volumes:

:rolleyes: Oh sh!t. Do I get banned now?

jupiterjack

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

anyone remember "the porridge pot"? it was my favourite, still have it, it's fairly battered now though.

loved the porridge pot, flooded the whole village..

flanders1979

I had Dick Whittington and his cat on tape. I think it had a Peter and the Wolf soundtrack.
I remember weetabix tokens being collected for the books years ago