Reading 'PEEPO!' as a WW2 material culture specialist: a thread. 1/12
Like me, PEEPO! first appeared in 1981, and is much loved by generations of tiny readers. It's a gentle story of a baby and the things he sees in and around his family home in wartime London. 2/12
The details of 1940s domestic life in Janet Ahlberg's illustrations are stunning: she used 'The Army and Navy Stores Catalogue, 1939-1940' as a reference for her richly populated interior scenes. 3/12