Ladybird love

I love ladybird books, I used to read them when I was a child. I still remember them in the small school library at my primary school. I remember the Peter and Jane books that taught me to read. Of course it's all different nowadays with jolly phonics.

I love the illustrations so nostalgic. My favourite is 'Shopping with mother'

I started collecting them when I had my son 3 years ago. I thought I would collect him the well loved tales for story time, then the addiction kicked in. I would see them in the charity shops or the bootsale and quickly grab them. I found hundreds in an antique shop in north Norfolk while we were on holiday it was like I hit the jackpot. I must have bought 30 books. So what started as a small collection has now turned into 300+ books and an obsession.

There must be hundreds I don't have... But my bookcases are full. I do love books. So when I knew fee at chipper nelly could make blocks from the books I knew I had to have some. These are the ones she made for my little boy.

He loves them. There are diggers, cranes, trains, cars all of his favourite things.

Do pop over to her blog as she is having a fantastic giveaway.

x x x