Adamant is right - books, young children do (still) love books !
Indeed I'm gonna make a visit to Transair at SHM tomorrow for some of those books that he's mentioned - thanks for the tip mate.
Nb. The toy set Adamant mentioned can be viewed at : <A HREF="http://www.transair.co.uk/jepdoubles/playset.htm" TARGET="_blank">http://www.transair.co.uk/jepdoubles/playset.htm</A>
And a front cover view of the 'Albert' books can be seen at: <A HREF="http://www.eprint.co.uk/literacy.htm#albert" TARGET="_blank">http://www.eprint.co.uk/literacy.htm#albert</A>
They seem to comply with both KS1&2 (Key Stage 1 & 2) and aimed at boys and girls of 6-8 years old, i.e an ability level which (and please excuse my cynical outlook w.r.t ‘modern’ educational standards) had many of use old’uns reading out loud from the front of the class whilst we were still at play school - so they’ll be perfect for a four year old with good genes (and I don’t mean Calvin’s or Levi’s) !
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