Janet and John: Book One (Janet & John Series)

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In the UK there were three Kathy and Mark Little Book collections, each of four volumes: Green 1-4 (1973), Orange 1-4 (1973), and Turquoise 1-4 (1974). Light rubbing to cover edges with stubbing to corners and couple of small marks, including erased pencil marks to front; rusting to staples. Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand. The books became a familiar aid for teaching schoolchildren throughout the 1950s and 1960s, being used in 81% of British primary schools in 1968. Etsy reserves the right to request that sellers provide additional information, disclose an item's country of origin in a listing, or take other steps to meet compliance obligations.

Janet and John were portrayed as average English children, living a typical middle-class life, and the books consisted of stories that progressively incorporated key words needed in the development of reading skills.They were one of the first popular "look-and-say" or "whole word" reading schemes, the approach being to repeat words sufficiently frequently that children memorised them – in contrast with the phonics method in which children were encouraged to decode groups of letters. I thought Biff was an awesome name and raved about Floppy the dog's antics, though I always thought Kipper would have been a name better suited to a dog than a little boy! The last in the sequence before we went onto free readers was pink, and had drawings of mice on the front.

To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.My first readers were all about Mary, Mike and Jeff, their dog was named Bolo or something along those lines and their cat was Velvet.

In the UK there were three Kathy and Mark Little Book collections, each of four volumes: Green 1-4 (1973), [13] Orange 1-4 (1973), [14] and Turquoise 1-4 (1974). I think Janet and John should be brought back to re-introduce the idea of how homely, simple and gentle life was back then! S. of the following products of Russian origin: fish, seafood, non-industrial diamonds, gold, and any other product as may be determined from time to time by the U.In a red card cover with black and white titles to front and red, white and black illustration to front. This method of learning to read contrasts with the phonics method where children are encouraged to decode groups of letters, which is the method employed in most schools today.