We need a Ladybird book of climate change deniers | Patrick Barkham
by Patrick Barkham from Environment | The Guardian on (#293P7)
Prince Charles has been signed up by the publishers to write an expert's book. But maybe readers nowadays prefer spoofs
My twins are "studying" Jack and the Beanstalk, and I've just packed them off to school with my battered copy of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales.
I've collected a few old Ladybirds from car boot sales because they are beautiful and nostalgic, hailing from a time when truths were simpler and there was faith in the future. My favourite is The Story of Newspapers, a Ladybird Achievements Book that is testimony to the speed of terrifying technical obsolescence - and welcome progress. A drawing of a newsroom where all 14 journalists are men shows the past wasn't always lovely.
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