"Shopping With Mother", a Ladybird book, depicts a day of shopping at various places. The family goes to the fish shop, greengrocer's, ironmonger's shop (What?? I had to look this up - it basically means hardware store, in Britain.) , the chemist's shop, the baker, the flower shop, the draper's shop, the butcher, and the toy shop. Wow! Not like nowadays when we just go to Walmart and be done with it, haha! "Let's Go Shopping", a Wonder Book published in 1958, tells the tale of Sally Snappit (what a great name!) as she asks her mother about all the different foods in the supermarket and where they came from. Love her cute little outfit.
"Shopping With Mother", a Ladybird book, depicts a day of shopping at various places. The family goes to the fish shop, greengrocer's, ironmonger's shop (What?? I had to look this up - it basically means hardware store, in Britain.) , the chemist's shop, the baker, the flower shop, the draper's shop, the butcher, and the toy shop. Wow! Not like nowadays when we just go to Walmart and be done with it, haha! "Let's Go Shopping", a Wonder Book published in 1958, tells the tale of Sally Snappit (what a great name!) as she asks her mother about all the different foods in the supermarket and where they came from. Love her cute little outfit.
I LOVE these! Let's bring back dressing up to go to the store! This makes me want to frequent flower shops for fresh bouquets more often.
ReplyDeleteLOL I love it that we are commenting on each other's blogs at the exact same time.
DeleteI looked up more info on Ladybird books out of curiosity. This one originally came out in '58?
DeleteHahaha! That's funny.
DeleteYep both these books came out in 58 actually!
DeleteAwesome books! I love the pictures! I wonder if I could still get my hands on them somewhere.
ReplyDeleteIf you are looking for a specific vintage book you can often find them on Etsy or Ebay.... you should also check out http://www.vintageladybird.com/
DeleteOk thanks :D
DeleteWOW! hello 1950's- this book embodies that time period to a T! I'm super glad we don't dress up to go shopping... that sounds hard! (I don't dress up much ever...)
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be funny to dress up like these women from the 50's to go to Walmart one day?
Deleteso where do you find all your divine books? Do you own them? Or are they library finds?
ReplyDeleteSo far all the books I have posted about I own. My plan is to blog about all the books in my collection and then if I eventually run out then I will find some library books to blog about. Well actually with one exception - I just took a whole pile of Dr. Seuss books out from the library for Keira's Dr. Seuss birthday party so since I have them out I will take some pics and blog about them soon. But I don't think I will ever totally run out of books in my collection to blog about because I am always buying more! I find almost all of my books at used book sales - I go to ones in my town as well as neighbouring cities and towns. Used book sales are always awesomely cheap but certain ones charge craaaaazy cheap prices for vintage books- like "Let's Go Shopping" that you can see on the cover only cost 10 cents! Once in a while I will also go to a used book store- their prices are a bit more than at a used book sale but you can often find stuff that is worth the extra couple dollars.
DeleteThe illustrations are beautiful! Such a lovely glimpse of 50s fashion.
ReplyDeleteShopping with mother is one of my favourite Ladybird books, it's amazing how long they have been around. The other one is new to me so thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThese are great vintage finds. I don't remember seeing these books when I was little, but I can actually remember when shopping was just like this - white gloves and all :-)
ReplyDeleteWow - it's so much work to take kids grocery shopping as it is - I can't imagine having to dress up to do it as well! :)
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