Bear's Birthday ¦ Make a Face ¦ Big Bad Pig ¦ So Can I ¦ Push the Dog ¦ Shirley's Shops ¦ Tell Us a Story ¦ One, Two, Flea!
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The illustration on our cover is by Ruth Brown and is taken from her latest book Ladybird, Ladybird published by Andersen Press (0 86264 200 0, £5.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for help in using this.
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Bear's Birthday
One, Two, Flea!
Make a Face
Big Bad Pig
So Can I
Push the Dog
Shirley's Shops
Tell Us a Story
I am always wary of books labelled 'readers' and specially contrived reading series but I have to admit that this particular series has a lot of young fans. The books aren't really stories but they do make something of a game of reading. All have jokey, appealing illustrations and bubble talk; the Red titles use single words and phrases, the Yellow titles labels and sentences, and the Blue use rhyme. My favourite is One, Two, Flea! which contains two much loved playground chants: variations on 'One two three, mother caught a flea' and 'Tiny Tim' which may well be known text to many young readers. Certainly these are a good bet for school bookshops and very good value at 99p.
