The economic sanctions and trade restrictions that apply to your use of the Services are subject to change, so members should check sanctions resources regularly. Light rubbing to cover edges with stubbing to corners and couple of small marks, including erased pencil marks to front; rusting to staples. The books are high up on my shelves right now so I’ll have to wait until someone can reach them down for me! 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.

I found an old book my sister or brother had had in school, but I don't think there were any characters in it. Hi I'm Melina, a mother of 3 teenage children and with a particular interest in all things health related. 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. Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand.The series attracted some criticism from those who disapproved of its disregard of phonics in favour of "look and say". 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. Janet and John 's presentation of a middle-class nuclear family fell out of favour, and the series was discontinued in 1976. The books, it was argued, reinforced the stereotypical roles of boys and girls and mothers and fathers. Thankfully the do have a big selection of books, so the children usually find something to suit them.

Children these days have much more fun learning to read with real books, of which there are hundreds of fantastic, well loved picture books with wonderful illustrations and amusing texts, which capture pupils imagination and give them a thirst for more! Crumbs that's asking a lot, an awful lot of water has gone under the bridge since I started school in 1952! Additional volumes soon followed: Through the Garden Gate (1950), [5] Off to Play (1950), [6] I Know a Story (1950), [7] Here We Go (1951), [8] and Once Upon a Time (1952).The last in the sequence before we went onto free readers was pink, and had drawings of mice on the front. The publisher claims to have jettisoned the strictures of the early stories, while hanging on to the simple basics of tales which often turned on revelatory passages such as: 'Come. In a red card cover with black and white titles to front and red, white and black illustration to front. The two clean-cut stars of the original reading books are still there, but they have been updated for today's world.