Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War. Registered address: Unit 31, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom. DS struggled with starting to learn to read so I'm trying to help him as much as I can so he keeps pace with the class. This change was considered so important that even Murray’s text (so carefully worded and so rarely tampered with) was adapted in the revised books. It’s as if, from the 1970s the cosy Peter and Jane family was no longer felt to be relevant, comfortable territory.

The second column shows the first revision books produced in the early 70s and the last column shows the late 70s books, when the remaining artwork was given a makeover and the layout of the covers was changed to give the framed picure on the front. Fair-haired and blue-eyed, every one in the children’s world looks exactly like them, apart from Pat the dog.It worried me terribly at the time because, although I knew dads sometimes daringly donned cravats for a cheese and wine party, I hadn’t seen any at a picnic. This is not intended to be a full statement of all your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations.

I wonder if the original target audience were aware of the nostalgic, retrospective feel to the Peter and Jane books when they first came out? Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. The books make use of the whole word or "look and say" technique which is generally considered outmoded as a method of reading education when not used in conjunction with phonics.With the help of Peter and Jane, key words are introduced, practised and developed through the levels. The very famous reading scheme featured two children, Peter and Jane, and all the books are so beautifully illustrated. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. Daddy was expected to play more of a ro le in Peter and Jane’s affairs, w hereas in the 1960s version he might watch with detached indulgence the scenes involving Mummy and the children. If he is enjoying them and making good progress, then it's absolutely fine to use them at home, regardless of what school does.

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Now that we have grandchildren I bought the set again and my daughter is getting her children to read from them. I knew that Peter and Jane were highly traditional but my Mum recommended them as she had used them to get her own three children reading 30-40 years before. The ‘culture’ represented is not Scottish, Welsh or English – but some 1950s concept of what was considered ‘proper’. Peter and Jane are Look and Say books and really don't fit in with how reading is (should be ) taught in the English national curriculum.If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation. Perhaps there was an awareness even then that these idylic domestic tableaux were unreal and presented a world that had never existed. They were very much from 'the world has been shaped by these really key important British adventurers and explorers and kings and queens and prime ministers etc', and it's fair to say that if you only learnt your history through Ladybird books you had a very British view of the world that pretty much said that Britain had shaped it.

Yes, I was part of that early audience, but at the age of 5, I don’t think my powers of analysis were up to the job).Of course there are n o mobile phones, designer trainers or computer games – but the children have scruffy hair, wear jeans and T-shirt s and don’t tidy up after themselves. The books were revised and updated in 1970, and again in the late 1970s, to reflect changes in fashions and in social attitudes. The good news is, if you want to acquire a set of these books to help a child to read, it doesn’t matter which version you get – just go for the cheapest.