Ladybird Books: What to look for in...

[oxycera]

Just wondered if anyone remembers or owns the Ladybird Series "What to look for in Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (4 vols.) I recently acquired them and can vaguely recall them from my junior school days (in the late 50s/early 60s).
The text is very good and the facing illustrations by Tunnicliffe terrific - an instant nostalgia hit! One of the illustrations in the Autumn volume shows a bonfire scene being looked down upon by a Tawny Owl in a pine tree. I can remember that one from 45years back and it still causes a certain frisson.
Does anyone out there knlow these books and have a favourire illustration?

[stripee]

Tunnicliffe was so good..he used to do the Brooke Bond picture cards too. In the attic I have lots of old Ladybird books, some I bought in markets, will have to go and have a look

[aeshna5]

Those along with the I-spy books were my first wildlife books. The plates of those Ladybird books were amazing + really whetted my appetite for wild things as an urban kid who saw hardly any wildlife or at the time knew nobody else who was into wildlife. Certainly one of my early influences.

Next came the Observer books!

[Wild-Woman]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

Next came the Observer books!

I've still got mine!

[coasty]

Yes I remember the ladybird books they were really good. and the Observer series. In a post some weeks ago I mentioned I had found my own observers book of birds from about 40 yrs ago,,, With all my notes and sightings,,

Ahh what memories

Andy

[coasty]

Yes I remember the ladybird books they were really good. and the Observer series. In a post some weeks ago I mentioned I had found my own observers book of birds from about 40 yrs ago,,, With all my notes and sightings,,

Ahh what memories

Andy

[epops]

Originally Posted by oxycera

Just wondered if anyone remembers or owns the Ladybird Series "What to look for in Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (4 vols.) I recently acquired them and can vaguely recall them from my junior school days (in the late 50s/early 60s).
The text is very good and the facing illustrations by Tunnicliffe terrific - an instant nostalgia hit! One of the illustrations in the Autumn volume shows a bonfire scene being looked down upon by a Tawny Owl in a pine tree. I can remember that one from 45years back and it still causes a certain frisson.
Does anyone out there knlow these books and have a favourire illustration?

I was gonna buy some a while back form a brilliant little bookshop in felixstowe but mrs epops was'nt up for it mainley cause she just bought me a new scope and camera bless her

[oxycera]

These books can be expensive, but it pays to shop around a bit - I got mine for £1 each.