It’s amazing how an image can do strange things to you. I’ve just discovered this website (http://www.ladybirdprints.com) which is basically the Ladybird book image archive.  Some of the images are truly beautiful. Here are some of my nostalgic favourites which take me back to being under 8 years old:

A bit camp you might say now!

And this last one strangely brought a tear to my eye!