Reading ¦ Eating ¦ Helping ¦ The Cat, the Bird and the Tree ¦ Our Baby ¦ Dressing Up ¦ The Loose Tooth ¦ People in Stories ¦ Fire! ¦ Old Houses ¦ The Football Book ¦ Crocodiles are Dangerous

It's good to see Breakthrough books available once again in net editions and at a very reasonable price. Illustrated by such people as Quentin Blake, Posy Simmonds and David McKee, these inviting little books written in 'children's own language' should help beginners to achieve immediate success so that they are able to say - as does the small boy on the first page of Reading - 'I can read.' Despite the lack of any real story in some of the Yellow and Red titles, and a reversal of two captions in Eating (I bet the children will pick this up straightaway), I recommend school bookshops to stock up with plenty of copies.