The Best of Girl
Carlton, 2006. As a companion to the famous Eagle comic, Girl is lovingly remembered as a bastion of British 1950s comic publishing. This compilation provides a glimpse through time into a word that has surely gone forever. Imagine if you will pin up features where Humphrey Littleton and Princess Margaret are the stars.

Thrill to the heady excitement of the comic strips “Susan of St. Brides: Nurse of the Year”, “Claudia of the Circus”. This 'Best of' is a facsimile reproduced from the original comic pages and would make a wonderful nostalgic gift for upstanding young ladies of all ages. 160 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 10" x 13" (260mm x 335mm) ISBN: 1853756113 and ISBN-13: 9781853756115
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Charm School: Advice for the Thoroughly Modern Girl
Prion, September 2007. Throughout the 1950s Girl Comic featured picture strips on guidance for young girls. Strict footcare regimes, daily manicures, sensible shoe shopping and good grooming were all firmly instilled into Girl readers.

The comic also ran a series "I want to be", that would advise on such suitable jobs as becoming a nanny, typist, air hostess or riding teacher. This book gathers together the best of these strips for a complete tutorial in making the most of a young girls skills and assets. 128 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 10" x 7" (254mm x 178mm) (ISBN-13: 9781853756245)

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Mother Tells You How: Essential Life Skills for Modern Young Women - "Girl" 1951-1960
Lorna Russell (Editor). Prion Books, 2007. "Mother Tells You How" was one of "Girls" most popular and longest-running strips. Each week Mother would teach her exemplary-in-every-way daughter, Judy, one of life's essential skills, such as how to decorate biscuits, how to prepare a grapefruit or how to do the washing up.

Where "Girls" more famous companion comic for boys, "Eagle", featured new inventions and clever conjuring tricks, "Girl" had Mother telling Judy how to make a shelf-tidy. "Eagle" subscribers read about shark fishing off the coast of Australia, while their sisters would turn to "Mother Tells You How" for wise words on how to care for goldfish.

"Girl" readers weren't to have their little heads filled with science they didn't understand, conjuring tricks for show-offs and tales of danger on the high seas. They were kept busy sorting out their small odds and ends into a shelf-tidy, and experimenting with unusual sandwiches.

"Mother Tells You How" appears to be an over-the-top 50s spoof, but is in fact a wholly genuine period piece, and it's its authenticity that provides such high comedy in our very different times. 128 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10½" x 7" (266mm x 178mm) (ISBN-13: 9781853756177)

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