Come to France

Hi everyone,
Today, I'd like to share with you some beautiful artworks by a famous Ladybird Books artist, John Berry (9 June 1920 - 10 December 2009). This book appeared at the end of the golden age of Ladybird books which started in 1940's.

I hope you will enjoy this trip - in time -  which will let you see how France looked like  , 50 years ago. 

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Let me add these two pictures

Thank you for these lovely pictures of days gone by, Youcef, although I'm not a big fan of retouched photos. I know that publishers used to do so with black and white photographs back then because color pictures were too expensive to print.

My favorite picture is the one showing the traffic officers and the 1940s cars (I love old cars ). On the cover, though, the cars are from the late 1950s/early 1960s, which means the publisher used a stock of old photos that were not up to date. Tsk-tsk.

Moi aussi j'aime ces images, ce sont celles de la France d'avant, celles de mon enfance et qui m'ont fait rêver...