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The comic book thread has led me to start this thread.

Everyone seems to have started in primary with the Janet and John books. We started with the Dick and Dora books. I was telling someone at work and he said "for god sake don't google Dick and Dora - god knows what'll come up". But it's true. It was Dick and Dora, and Nip the dog and Fluff the cat. Was it only us who had those books? Surely not?
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14-10-2014, 06:56 PM
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I can't remember having any special reading books at school .... definitely not Janet and John or the others mentioned
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14-10-2014, 07:04 PM
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I can't remember having any special reading books at school .... definitely not Janet and John or the others mentioned
Mags I started primary school in 1962. Don't know if that makes any difference
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14-10-2014, 07:05 PM
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I remember Peter and Jane Books , were they for myself or my Children i m not sure now ,
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14-10-2014, 07:07 PM
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Mags I started primary school in 1962. Don't know if that makes any difference
Definitely does!
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14-10-2014, 07:08 PM
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The only one that I can remember is Aesop's Fables.
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14-10-2014, 07:08 PM
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Was Janet and John for me but my husband remembers Dick and Dora books. So may just be different schools using different books. He started school in 1965 in Farnham and I started in 1966 in Woking.
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14-10-2014, 07:11 PM
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I don't remember Janet and John books either, not sure what we had...
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14-10-2014, 09:49 PM
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I faintly remember a book called Henny Penny and the Seven Little Chicks, of course the chicks in those days were the ones that hatched out of eggs. Henny got into all sorts of situations with her chicks, but she always managed to get them all home safely into the henhouse at the end of the day, great the way everything ended up safe and happy, pity we all had to go out into the real world and spoil it all.
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14-10-2014, 10:19 PM
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I faintly remember a book called Henny Penny and the Seven Little Chicks, of course the chicks in those days were the ones that hatched out of eggs. Henny got into all sorts of situations with her chicks, but she always managed to get them all home safely into the henhouse at the end of the day, great the way everything ended up safe and happy, pity we all had to go out into the real world and spoil it all.
Jem, that reminds me of the Ladybird books I used to read to my children when they were small ...... Henny Penny, Turkey Lurkey, Goosey Loosey ...... there were quite a few and I think I must have bought the whole set, they were well illustrated in bright colours and my children never tired of listening to the same stories over and over again.
 
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