Are you sitting on a Ladybird goldmine?

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Look hard enough at any bookshelf in Britain and you’ll probably find a Ladybird book. Rooting around my family home, I find The Postman and the Postal Service, Rumpelstiltskin and How It Works: The Hovercraft – plus some less wholesome titles from a 2015 series of adult spoofs (How It Works: The Husband). Alas, we could only make a few pounds from the…