thats a good question to ask,i dont really remember what we got,the tufty club comes to mind and most of the ladybird books oh and beatrics potter,winnie the pooh so many,shame kids prefer games consoles these days,both my kids were good readers at school but sadly not so much now, ah to be young and out clubbing, i do remember the history teachers made us read the whole of winston churchill and loads of serious books as they do, dorothy

I learned to read with Janet and John too. My favourite reading was the Little Grey Rabbit stories by Alison Uttley.

I didn't get into Beatrix Potter until about 10 yrs ago when I acquired a rabbit called Benjamin!!! I've since had rabbits caleed Peter and Flopsy.......

Ah yes, Janet and John! Remember it well , well when I say well perhaps not that well! I always enjoyed reading though. My kids had the Roger Red Hat books, thought they were excellent too!

Lyn x

My love of reading started even before school. My Mother tells me I was a very quiet child and she could leave me in a chair reading for hours from a very young age. Poor Mum, my Sister arrived when I was seven and all hell let loose. She never sat still and hated reading.

When I started at school it was Janet and John. Then I read and re-read Enid Blyton's Famous Five and so many books I cannot remember them now. There was one book I read which has haunted me for many years and I cannot remember the name of it. I must have read it dozens of times. It was about a little girl set maybe in the early 1900's. She was playing one day on a swing with her Sisters and fell off and became paralysed. She was confined to her bed and could hear her siblings outside playing and that is all I really remember It struck such a chord with me. I wish I could remember the title. I often think about this book.

My passion for reading continues today.

Jackie
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Yes, I used to read Enid Blyton too, Brer Rabbit was a favourite. My daughter reminded me of Billy Blue hat too, that she used to read. Found this on Amazon and quite cheap, so may get it for her birthday. During our discussion at work, we also got onto comics we read. I read Mandy and Dandy, whilst my sister read Jackie. My work colleague said she used to get one called Princess, but I had not heard of that. Lovely memories.
Candy

Doesn't it show our age that so many of us were brought up on" Here is Janet, Here is John!" I thought I was so clever when I read first read "aeroplane",it seemed such a big word! I followed this with the Wide Range readers.
As a infant teacher I seem to have followed through with the reading schemes most of my life. On one of my teaching practises I was in a school that used the Initial teaching alphabet, where everything is spelt out as it sounds, very trendy at the time but obviously did not last. I have used Peter and Jane in the Ladybird series, Roger Red Hat and more recently the Oxford reading tree. My own daughters read Ginn.
I also loved Enid Blyton, I can even remember the first one that I read myself, the Island of Adventure. I read it every night in bed to my younger sister, so proud of myself! She recently found a copy of it, so we reread it, not nearly as exciting as I remembered it.
Jackie I think that the book you are remembering is What Katy Did, followed by What Katy did Next by Susan Coolidge. I looked it up and it was published in 1872 which is in keeping with what you remember. I loved it too, I also remember with fondness the Secret Garden and loads more.
Zena x.