Story complete but revision section at the back has been cut out as has a section of the back cover. but I do remember being bitterly disappointed that I couldn't read after my first day at school, as I wanted to be able to read my Jack and Jill comic! Funilly enough my son learned to read recently and it seamed to just "happen", he seamed to be oblivious to the process and just put all the letters together effortlessly. im heady, my father was heady, he was a russian literature professor, and INVITATION TO A BEHEADING was first book read and actually I was playing three insturments by age 6, esperanto by 8, not bad for a scouser innit. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.

Using limited vocabulary, the books were based around the daily lives of a brother and sister with words frequently repeated, the idea was that children would memorise them and therefore read. For example, Etsy prohibits members from using their accounts while in certain geographic locations. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. What is more, their smart casual clothes and executive haircuts have been swapped for a far less formal look.

Definately Janet and John but I also remember Peter and Jane, not sure if they were Ladybird books or not.

In a red card cover with black and white titles to front and red, white and black illustration to front.

These had a new Anglicised text by Rona Munro, wife of John Mackenzie Wood who ran Nesbit and Co; she was originally a teacher from New Zealand. I remember of Janet and Jim (I think it was like that) and now I would like to get a copy of some to teach my students, with them. There is very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and some foxing and marking to the front, there is some foxing to the title page and occasional minor marks elsewhere, there is also one . Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. By the mid-1970s the Janet and John books were looking increasingly outdated with their representation of a middle-class nuclear family.

The dog was Spot, who was a black and white cocker spaniel; the cat was Puff, who was an orange marmelade, apparently all-American domestic shorthair (formerly known as an alley cat). Ding Li and A-li - our wonderful teacher (a chinese citizen) had picked up on what we students thought of them and used to refer to them as ('nerdy swots' hahahahaha! both my dds started on the billy blue hat books (only 4 years ago)They were just dreadful and very tatty (one of them dd1 had was printed in 1983! So I became my own reading group, and took out books from the school library to read while the other kids got the "Jack And Janet" series.Pink hard cover, Good-, rubbing along edges and spine hinges, rubbing at spine ends, light pencil words to top of upper bd, some fading and age-marking, school stamp to ffep, contents nice and tight, very occas. In 2007, as part of a trend in publishing nostalgic facsimiles of old favourites, Summersdale Publishers reissued two of the original Janet and John books, Here We Go and Off to Play. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.