I learned to read with Dick and Jane and Sally. How about you?

by Fatfreek 38 Replies latest jw friends

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  Fatfreek

  I can hardly believe the prices they're getting for pristine copies of those books they handed out to those of us with scalps populated with lice, hands and fingers encrusted with bits of jelly and dried mud. They're getting between $100 and $200 per copy.

  Thanks to Google Images, I couldn't resist taking another peek between some of those charming colored pages as a reminder to what we were actually exposed to in trying to make us literate.

  Most of these look contemporary to when I went to school -- the 1940's. One of them may go back into the 1930's. Enjoy, Len Miller.

  

  

  

  

  

  
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  nelly136

  sweet
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  jdhf

  they're great! We learned during the 70's from Peter and Jane....(books from England ladybird)I loved them. Would love to get copies of them.
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  nelly136

  http://www.vintageladybird.com/history.html

  was it timmy the dog jd? i remember a red setter in them
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  leec

  My favorite was an old set of "My Bookhouse" books that my parents had. Like this:

  
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  jdhf

  hey nelly...yeah I'm sure it was timmy..don't you think kids tv programmes were better in the 70's too??
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  Fatfreek

  I loved the charm of that old telephone, the one that didn't even have a dial. I've watched old movies where they simply picked up the receiver and tap the cradle switch and tell the operator who they wanted to call. We always had a numbered circular dial and I recall we were on a party line where we shared with some 4 or 8 other customers. Pick up the handset and listen first to see if the line was free. If it wasn't, and mom wasn't watching, listen in to hear some neighborhood secrets.

  Len
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  FreudianSlip

  I recall seeing those growing up, but I don't have any specific memories of using them to learn to read. I was in elementary school in the 80s, not sure if they were in popular use at that time.
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  nelly136

  http://www.ladybirdflyawayhome.com/pages/diff_versions.htm this one shows the different eras as they recycled them

  mayday....oooh leec pagan fertility stuff i think a lot of the books back then had a stunning picture quality considering the technology they had compared to today.
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  Fatfreek

  Whoa, Nelly! What a great link -- those Ladybird books -- to stuff we, in the states, were probably seldom exposed to..