In a farmyard on the green hillside there lived a very proud and contented hen.
Characters
and Keywords
Cocky The Lazy Rooster - chickens - farmyard
First
edition
issue points for collectors
56 pages, four of which are catalogue. Hardback book issued with dust wrapper. Original price of 2'6 Net.
There is a colour illustration pasted to the front board. Text on the spine reads from bottom to top. Illustrated endapapers. 'Cocky' is the last title to appear on the back flap of the dust-wrapper.
On the front of the dust-wrapper, at the bottom, appears the words 'A Ladybird Book'.
Reprint history
Second Edition, 1955 (the second edition shows 'Cocky' as the last title listed on the rear flap of the dust-wrapper, so there is no difference between the first edition and second edition dust-wrappers.
The earliest matt edition ( book without a dust-wrapper)
was published in 1964 - this was the first title in the Key
Words Reading Scheme series and was called Play With Us and
was coded 1a.
