But the book that most defined those months and years was Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams. Jamison’s essay collection ...

In addition to the Bible-story books, Ladybird published prayer books, including the Ladybird Book of Prayers Through the Year, in 1964, with illustrations and prayers for each month. In the late ...

Arlene Foster has taken part in a These Times podcast with journalist Tom McTague and Professor Helen Thompson. Naturally it's a self-serving performance about her time crowing on top of the DUP ...

Moïra Fowley is the author of three critically acclaimed young adult (YA) novels, and a part-time witch. She is half-Irish, half-French, and lives in Dublin. Eyes Guts Throat Bones, her debut ...

The King has co-written a Ladybird book about climate change to give children the “basic facts and figures” about the environmental threat facing the planet.

The King is a life-long champion of the environment and the new children’s book is a re-writing of his 2017 climate change book aimed at adults.

It turned out that behind the scenes, Penguin had been working on their own series of adult Ladybird books, which have since become ubiquitous stocking filler fodder (and now, can often be seen sold ...

Erika Dreifus is the author of two books for adults (Quiet Americans: Stories and Birthright: Poems). She is currently seeking a home for her first picture-book manuscript. A fellow in the Sami ...

The book triggers the question of how important it actually is to try and explain Brexit to children. For Lawman, his book is “the answer to [his] dilemma” and his view is shared by 89% of those ...

Britain’s colonial past should have been discussed during the Brexit referendum. If we, as a nation, were a bit more honest and critical about our own history might we might have avoided landing ...

Artwork by illustrators from the classic Ladybird Books is to be explored in an exhibition. The books, which started life in Loughborough about 100 years ago, have enthralled generations of ...

By F.R. LADYBIRD BOOKS are something of a British institution. The slim volumes—11.5cm x 18cm and 56 pages—were designed so that they could be printed from a single sheet of paper known as a ...