What to Look For in Every Season (A Ladybird Book) Boxset by Elizabeth Jenner

Illustration, Durley says, is a powerful tool to convey these messages. It’s also about people’s “effect on animals and their integration with them”.Ĭreating a world modern children could relate to Courtesy of Ladybird “Now documentaries end with information about the current situation – in today’s climate, you can’t just celebrate,” she says. Durley, who has always been an animal-lover, says that she remembers watching David Attenborough documentaries when she was younger and how the focus would be about celebrating the animals and transporting viewers. It reflects the changing way we view nature in culture today, she says. “I liked thinking about the traditional texts and putting a modern twist on it,” the Somerset-based illustrator tells Design Week.

Courtesy of LadybirdĪccording to the books’ illustrator Natasha Durley, that modernising element was one of the most enjoyable aspects of the creative process. Urbanisation and climate change has shifted the natural landscape, and the population itself looks very different. But in those intervening years, plenty has changed in the UK. The series has now been revived for the first time in 60 years by Ladybird, Penguin’s design-led children’s imprint. Picture books provided entertainment and education they also became a design classic. Grant Watson and illustrated by painter Charles Tunnicliffe – aimed to show children the changing events across the four seasons in the UK. In the 1950s, Ladybird’s What to Look for series launched with a playful, illustrative look at spring and autumn.

What to Look For in Every Season (A Ladybird Book) Boxset by Elizabeth Jenner