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

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In a red card cover with black and white titles to front and red, white and black illustration to front. While I was quite small the Government at the time saw fit to remove all Enid Blyton books from our libraries - thank goodness I had a wonderful supply of those at home! You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The books, it was argued, reinforced the stereotypical roles of boys and girls and mothers and fathers. 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.

Before I was reading for myself, I remember vividly that my brother 10 years older than me would read TV Comic to me; Tom and Jerry and Basil Brush stand out most. I adored my Chinese Laoshi in a purely non-physical way: I just loved his geeky sense of humour and his teaching methods! I think Janet and John should be brought back to re-introduce the idea of how homely, simple and gentle life was back then! I started school in 1973 and here in Australia we learnt to read with "Dick and Jane" and of course their pets Nip and Fluff! Light rubbing to cover edges with stubbing to corners and couple of small marks, including erased pencil marks to front; rusting to staples.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.

What is more, their smart casual clothes and executive haircuts have been swapped for a far less formal look. The series attracted some criticism from those who disapproved of its disregard of phonics in favour of "look and say".I was brought up in Chelsea (the one in London) and they had a wonderful children's library right near the fire station on the King's Road. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. All I can say is that I did learn and loved every minute of it and love of reading is still way high on my list so however they taught us can't have been that bad.

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! Kiddle encyclopedia articles are based on selected content and facts from Wikipedia, edited or rewritten for children. There were seven books in all: Out and About (1949), I Know a Story (1949), I Went Walking (1949), Here We Go (1949), Off to Play (1949), Through the Garden Gate (1951), and Once upon a Time (1951). If we have reason to believe you are operating your account from a sanctioned location, such as any of the places listed above, or are otherwise in violation of any economic sanction or trade restriction, we may suspend or terminate your use of our Services.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. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. i read janet and john at school but my real passion was for enid blyton - i loved everything she wrote! 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. Definately Janet and John but I also remember Peter and Jane, not sure if they were Ladybird books or not.

I started school in 1979 and learnt to read using these books and my Mum still has two copies, which my son (now 8) also read when he started school. Originally published in the UK by James Nisbet and Co in 1949 the Janet and John reading scheme was one of the first to use the “look and say” approach.

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! In the new books, which have been written jointly by a Cambridge University educationalist and a reception class teacher, the naive duo are brought back to tread a cautious path through the many cultural and technological influences that surround twenty-first century infants.