please empty your brain below |
Now it all makes sense.... I think I started with 5a and hence missed out on the key character development of the earlier books... |
*admits to still having almost a full set* |
First book I ever read. A seminal influence. |
I never knew I was a guinea pig for these books. I started school in 1964, and they already seemed old hat then. |
If I recall, the series continues until it gets (relatively) sophisticated. I'm sure I had one that focussed on Peter and Jane's older cousins who were starting a youth club in some mountains somewhere. Cue fun with painting murals. Personally, I preferred Roger Red Hat and his pals. |
I got quite emotional looking at those sites. I had Mick The Disobedient Puppy, Tiptoes The Mischievous Kitten, and Beaky The Greedy Duck! I want to curl up on a sofa with a mug of hot milk and read them. |
What is happening to Peter and Jane inside the teepee? Is Peter... being a naughty boy? |
There are Jungian undertones throughout the genre. Female archetypes inform the narrative which is constructed around prevailing social norms. There is inherent tension not only in the simple tale-as-allegory but in the very binding that holds it all together. Were it not for the invention of Sellotape in 1937 we might, indeed, be a lost generation - in the literary sense. *scratches gonads* |
It is scary how many Peter and Jane images I recall from the linked sites. My favourite Ladybird book has to be the 'poetry' featured in Tootles The Taxi and friends. |
I was brought up on Janet and John books, which were Anglicised editions of American's Alice and Jerry books. Book one - Here We Go. See the kitten. Come and see. See the kitten Janet. One little kitten.
The illustrations were vividly colourful, reflecting the texture of a prosperous American middle-class reality, at odds with my grey, West London suburban origins. Did Peter and Jane replace Janet and John? |
Fourth bulleted link is broken
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Given the link's over 18 years old, I'm not surprised.
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