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Kate Greenaway Prize Winners 1956 - 2010

is awarded by  for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.

 
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Gillian James Books Specialising in Children's Antique,
Vintage, Modern and Contemporary Books and Prints


 

 

 

 

Action & Super Hero

Antique pre-1910

Beano, Dandy, Topper et al

Blackie and Picture Plate

Bunty, Judy, Mandy et al

Eagle, Victor, Warlord et al

 

Annuals were first published in the late 19th Century. Bound editions of the Chatterbox and Boys Own Paper for instance became popular. Collecting began quite early on.

Today most enthusiasts collect annuals that they read as a child. Perhaps the most popular being  Beano, Dandy and Rupert annuals
You can chart a childhood through annuals for instance: Robin, Eagle, Victor to Shoot or Twinkle, Bunty, Jackie to Blue Jeans.

The 1950s to 1970s was probably the golden age of annuals. With the increasing number of television  related annuals such as Star Trek, Doctor Who, Blue Peter, Play Hour and Joe 90 adding to the comic and magazine generated output.

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Film, Radio & TV related

Football, Sport & Leisure

Jackie & Teen

Music Rupert Tiny Tots
 
 
 

Children's Poetry

Nursery Rhyme

& Song

     
To hear many of your favourite poets read a poem go to the  The Children's Poetry Archive.
 
 
 

Children's Vintage Storybooks

 
 

     
Fables

Fairy Tales

& Legends

     
British Fairy Tales 
     
 

The Kings of Fairy Tales

 

Charles Perrault 1628 - 1703     Books 

Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella; The Little Glass Slipper, The Fairy, Riquet with the Tuft, Blue Beard, Little thumb, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, The Ridiculous Wishes, The Master Cat: or Puss in Boots & Donkey Skin.

 

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm 1785 - 1863   1786 - 59     Books 

Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Rose Red, King Thrushbeard, The Bremen Town Musicians, Little Snow White, The Golden Goose, Rapunzel, The Wolf & the Seven Little Kids, Rumpelstiltskin,    More

 

 Hans Christian Andersen 1805 - 1875     Books 

The Emperor's New Clothes, The Princess and the Pea, The Ice Maiden,     The Snow Queen, The Little Match Girl, The Tinder Box, The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Nightingale     More

 
 
 
 
 
  Keen: he had a great thirst for knowledge...   Ladybird Books The man behind Ladybird Books as we know them was Douglas Keen who joined the company in 1936. After service in WWII he set about making the books profitable as until then they had only been a side-line operation for the company of Wills & Hepworth. After much research into the emerging modern schools with their new teaching methods he launched series after series of the books we know so well including Key Words, History, Nature, Well-Loved Tales and the Story of. His policy was to commission writers with a passion for their subject who could make what they wrote interesting and understandable for children. He balanced this excellence of content by employing some of the best illustrators of the day to produce the familiar and much loved illustrations. In 1957 he became editorial director. By 1971 Ladybird were selling some 20 million copies. But perhaps his greatest success is that the books are bought now not only out of affection for what we read as children but because the content has lasted the test of time and has not been bettered. 

 

 
 
 
Ladybird Series List (up 876 Topsy & Tim) click number for books for sale in the series.


 

 
 


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