The oldest Ladybird books. ‘Fairy tales’ (Circa 1930) - ThreadSky

lbflyawayhome.bsky.social • 39 days ago

The oldest Ladybird books.

‘Fairy tales’
(Circa 1930)

Love this

That kid is 100% getting kidnapped and replaced with a changeling.

Children this young should not be given LSD. That's my opinion as a parent, anyway.

🩷🩷🩷

Scroll forward 35 years when that same kid is experimenting with LSD.

This is how I wish to be woken up

I don't know. I find them a little intimidating. I can't remember the story with this one, so am holding back on my opinion.

This is just beautiful 😍

Tia also wishes to see them every day

Enough to give a kid nightmares

I love fairy tales, is a reminiscence from my beautiful childhood I grew up surrounded by books.

That child looks decidedly feverish.

Very influenced by both Conan Doyle and Arthur Rackham’s fairies, still got a definite art noveau look about them!

The influence of the time worked on Conan Doyle and Rackham as well

Isn't that just so sweet. Lovely, thank you Helen.

Since seeing labyrinth I can’t see fairies without thinking of them as having fangs and faces like the lost boys (film)

This is so lovely. Any idea who the artist is?

Afraid not

I tried doing a Google reverse image search to no avail. I figure if you don't know, nobody does, but it's a shame, because it's such beautiful work.

It never occurred to me before but I hope those fairies wear fairy knickers

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