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MelT
9/11/2014 03:01:07
Australian education was state based, a real,pain for army brats moving interstate every year, different curriculum. However, the Happy Venture Readers featured in my education! Charming to find your site!
Liz
10/31/2014 19:09:52
Lovely website, which has helped me re-discover books from my childhood. Wonderful!
Greg Mulheran
3/8/2015 04:22:39
Hello,
Julie
3/16/2015 23:12:30
The best place to try would be the Advanced Book Exchange website. - Julie
I am interested in the Good Reader's Book (3) We had them as children and they ended up being destroyed in a flood. :(.
Julie
3/16/2015 23:11:49
Hello, I'm afraid I'm not a buyer, you can get lots of these titles on the Advanced Book Exchange website though - Julie
Samantha
7/14/2015 08:21:08
Old school pirate books were enjoyable
Rachel Gibbon
7/23/2015 02:47:55
Looking for comprehension books used in Primary schools in the late 70s , easy to follow
Lesley
9/10/2015 22:57:36
Read, write and remember ?
Joy Buchanan
8/12/2015 09:43:14
Hello my name is Joy and I have been given a pile of nippers book. I really want to find a list of the reading levels for them. I also have Kangaroo Creek starters books and some very old PMs. I have retired from teaching and am now tutoring students who have reading problems. I love these old books as do my students....Joy 9/1/2015 11:34:06
This is a smashing website. Thank you so much for all the work you have put into it. Very helpful in tracking down some of the good old favourites which work just as well or better than some of the newer commercial enterprises.
piper
10/30/2015 22:52:40
do you know the name of the reading scheme from late 70s early 80s, it came in a large box, with colour coding, you picked out a card such as tan, brown, gold and it had a short story then you answered questions on the back?
Tonette
9/10/2016 02:46:24
Wasn't that the STA reading program. I believe I used that when I was in school.
Tonette
9/10/2016 02:49:12
Sorry SRA reading
Paulette Bourgoin
12/17/2015 04:08:04
I remember the name of two stories in this book, They were "Half Chick" and The Magic Broom" I believe the book may have been called Old and New Stories, but not positive. I have been looking for this book for a long time, if you can send me any information I would appreciate it
Louise
3/31/2016 07:37:24
Lovely looking through these but noticed "the history of the motor car", which i used to have, is made up of collecting cards from boxes of tea. We collected several of these books with different themes
Peter
6/20/2016 21:07:32
I wondered if you know of a book from the 1970s called My World or My home focusing on different things such as birds, festivals such as bonfire night basically about life around you
Sheila Chamberlain-Hyett
7/29/2016 23:13:00
I love your website. I am running a Young Archaeologist and Curators Club at the Black Country Living Museum. This summer we are looking at children's books. The members will be interviewing visitors about their reading schemes and favourite books. Have found your site very useful.
Tonette
9/10/2016 02:45:12
I am looking for a story that had bunny bear and turtle tom in it. Turtle tom was looking for bunny bear that was hiding. I've had no luck in all the research I have done. Please help
debra
9/21/2016 14:30:31
I am trying to find a book I read at school sometime in the 1960's. I cant remember anything other than the outside was light in colour and it had two (or possibly 3) black mice on the front cover! I think it was a reading book with a few drawings inside too.
Siddhartha
12/24/2016 09:03:08
Very nice and beautiful site and the thought behind it. Whether you go back to the earlier periods also?
Dawn
1/15/2017 03:05:43
Looking for the book that had a cheetah on the cover walking through a field with a blue sky. It would have been a book read by a middle school student. I have no idea what the title was. Any help ?
Charlotte Holwell
8/21/2017 15:04:46
So many lovely memories...have been looking for the hardback Through The Rainbow books for years...do you have images of the insides...I remember a story about a cat, and the 12 dancing princesses amongst others. I must have been about 6.
Robert
9/9/2017 01:08:28
In 1955-56 I was in grade school in Long Beach, California, 4th and 5th grades. We had a reader which was centered around the adventures of a family traveling by auto around the U.S. One of the brothers was [as I recall] named "Kissme Sam" from being born in Kissimmee, Florida. All the children in the family were named after places they had been born. I recall that one of the chapters/stories was about Natchez, Mississippi and involved the "under-the-hill" part of town on the river bank. I'd love to find out what that reader was and be able to look for a copy. Any ideas ??
Manisha Vyas
11/30/2017 08:11:36
It would have been good if content of the books was available.
Helen perry
1/28/2018 04:40:19
Hi I’m looking for a green geography book that was used in Canadian schools around 1968ish. I believe it was called “Journeys in distance lands” it had coloured illustrated pictures and stories about Bungya from Africa and Nantook from the North. Any info would be helpful. Thank You.
Ann Garrick
2/3/2018 20:37:54
Do you have any idea where I could find copies of the Young Australia Readers series used in the 70's in Australian schools.The first one from memory was a blue book and the second was yellow.
Sue
3/20/2018 11:19:05
Great site how lovely yo be transported back to those days.
CAROLYN ruge
5/30/2018 06:14:58
I'm from SA. I attended primary school from approx. 1955-1961. A periodical was issued to students around the 1960 mark and we kept them in a folder. The title "children's hour" seems familiar but I could be wrong. Each edition contained stories and projects...one i remember is How To Make A Skipping Rope. I'd love to track down some copies if possible
Mary Lilly
7/2/2018 17:33:05
I was in grade school in Hagerstown, Idiana in the early 50's. What memories these little books bring back. I remember the first page of our of our school books (Binny and Ginn) was, "This is Garden Street. Garden Street is beautiful." I wasn't a good reader until second grade, but I loved those books and the beautiful illustrations. These bring back memories long forgotten. Thank you.
Graham
7/27/2018 02:02:48
I'm trying to find/remember a series I read at about 6-7 years old, in the mid-1980s. I definitely read a lot of Sheila McCullagh and these had a similar feel but darker. One was about a greedy king who sent a tax collector to take a gold coin from everyone to pay for a new castle, but he gets double crossed and ends up in exile. The other was about villagers who were locking themselves inside to stop these mist/ghostly things from getting to them. They forget about the keyhole and someone sacrifices himself with his back to the door to stop them getting in! If anyone remembers these...
Julie Munckton
9/20/2018 05:46:04
Hello, I wonder if this was the Hummingbird Series by Sheila ? - JM
Tammy
10/10/2018 21:38:03
I am looking for a story that was in a school reader of my older sister. The name of the story, I believe, was "The Ugly Wrinkled Nix". It would have been in the early 70's when she had the book; either a 1st, 2nd or 3rd grade reader--although Im not sure how current the school readers were kept at that time so the reader could have been from the 60's or possible even the 50's.
Julie
10/15/2018 05:59:37
Hello Tammy, I'm afraid that isn't one I have come across yet, but will keep my eyes peeled for it. - J
Gwenda Meredith
11/25/2018 21:44:39
I am a volunteer teaching English to some asylum seekers in the North West of England. One Kurdish family cannot get to college to do ESOL as they have v disabled youngsters so I am going to their house.As a remedial teacher with the ILEA in a comprehensive in Tooting in the 1970s/80s I remember the great reduced vocabulary series of classics and other stories and plays that teenagers struggling with English, really loved. Longmans were the publishers I remember . Can you help me track some down? Thankyou so much if you can help. 12/9/2018 05:05:55
Hi! I’ve been searching for a particular Christmas story my entire life with no luck, and I’m hoping maybe you can help me. ;)
Gail
1/4/2019 05:40:26
I have a set of the Happy Venture Wall posters. Can you tell me where I would go to sell these and how much _approx_ they are worth, if anything.
Caroline Gilchrist
1/24/2019 10:36:53
I am trying to find a particular book which was part of a reading series we had in early 80s. The books were off-white and the covers had a picture on bottom half of the front cover below the title. I think they were for more advanced readers. The one I am looking for was called something like The Hoviars about some little red or pink men. I don't remember much else except that it was a popular favourite. I know it's a bit of a long shot...
Laura marie Young
8/23/2019 20:23:37
Hi I am trying to get the ginn 360reading books as in cant get many on the Amazon and ebay help please
Peter
10/15/2019 09:48:04
Brilliant little website - well done! I was amazed to see the reading through the rainbow series. It brought back the feeling of pride I had when I progressed to the Hardbacks in Bronze Silver and Gold! Innocent days.....:0) -
Julie
11/7/2019 06:31:27
Hi Peter , take a look under Maths books - just put some pictures on!
Jo
11/25/2019 16:09:34
Trying to find a reading/educational system I used at my primary school in about 1965 which comprised sets of coloured paperback books . For example starting at Orange 1 then 2 etc. and then progressed to another colour and so on. Would love to see these books again. (Aldryington School in Reading).
Julie
11/26/2019 06:57:15
Hi Jo, great to hear from you, take a look at https://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/the-gay-way-series.html as it could be these!
David Black
12/14/2019 15:31:28
I am trying to locate a copy of the Grade 7 (Ontario) reading anthology called "High Flight" after the poem by John McGee. It was in common use in the early 1960's
Dolly
1/8/2020 12:16:32
The Radiant Way - Pre-primer to 4th step is available in India. You may kindly check out www.eupheus.in
Julie
1/8/2020 12:27:23
Many thanks for letting us know
Elizabeth
1/14/2020 13:16:31
I am looking for a English school reading book from the early 1950s, I was in junior school, grade 3. The story was of a young man who had to go off on a quest, and at the end of the story he was given help as he had something blue - a cutting of a forgetmenot. Any advice?
Sally Wilton
1/19/2020 21:40:27
What a great site, and I even love the background. I'm trying to find out the title of a book I read in the second half of the 70s in junior school (England). It concerned some children who are staying in a big house in the country, possibly they are evacuated in WW2 but I'm not sure; might have been more contemporary. Whilst in the garden they notice that there are too many windows in one room, compared with the number they see from inside. On investigating, they find a hidden room. Entering this takes them back in time to where a man is hiding - in his time it's the English Civil War, I think. He may have been a priest or a soldier. The children bring him food and ultimately help him escape, all the while time travelling.
Julie
1/20/2020 08:58:20
Hi Sally, many thanks for the comments, it doesn't ring any bells with me , if none of the guests on here can help then it may be worth asking on here http://forums.abebooks.com/discussions/AbeBookscom_BookSleuthreg/abesleuthcom?dbg=6&redirCnt=1
Bernadette Ferreira
3/10/2020 14:49:27
Hi , was wondering could you advise , I have a collection of breakthrough series Longman books I would like to sell , where would be the best place to sell thanks for your time , kind Regards Bernadette
Julie Munckton
3/11/2020 06:30:43
Hi Bernadette, the best place to sell would be on EBay Amazon or ABE . If you aren't after any money for them than Oxfam are great as well. - Julie
William MOBBERLEY
5/4/2020 21:46:33
Wonderful site although I could not find the books I was seeking. All I recall is that they were fairy tale stories and double page spreads were in colour and the blakc and white alternating. At the back there was a list of words and I used to have to go to the head mistress' office to read them to her to confirm I could reaad them. Then i went onto the next book. I reckon this would have been in 1966.
Mark Sanderson
5/19/2020 22:22:41
Do you have any English textbooks that include "Leiningen Versus the Ants"? I'm trying to track down the textbook I used in 8th grade (early 1990s). There are other stories in it that I want to read but I can't remember their titles. One was about a guy who was being chased by a robot and was eventually caught, but the robot didn't kill him because the man had lost weight during the chase and could no longer be correctly identified.
Julie Munckton
5/20/2020 04:49:55
Hi Mark, doesn't ring any bells, I don't think the Wide Range Readers carried it. I'm sure you have already found this but the full text of the story you mentioned is at http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html
Marianne
5/24/2020 10:39:31
Hi! Wonder if you can help me, please? I'm trying to identify a children's book I used to borrow from the library in mid-70s. I think it may have been older then. It was a small hardback, children's *non-fiction* narrative history of the French Revolution. (It's *not* M & G Huisman's 'Stories of the French Revolution', which I have). I remember it had b/w line drawing, and that there was one of Marie Antoinette hammering at a door in Versailles at time of women's march.
Dr Marianne M Gilchrist
11/10/2021 16:59:56
I found it! Arthur Booth's 'True Book of the French Revolution (1960).
Julie Munckton
11/10/2021 18:05:06
Excellent - Julie
Colin wilkinson
7/8/2020 15:37:58
Can anyone tell me of a reading scheme from the 1950s that contained a repetitive tale of a squirrel riding a bike over telegraph or telephone wires? It’s driving me mad!
Julie Munckton
7/9/2020 10:51:57
Hi Colin, doesn't ring a bell with me , but it may be worth an ask on the ABE books forum http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/discussions/AbeBookscouk_BookSleuth/abesleuthuk?dbg=6&redirCnt=1
Brandi Snow
8/22/2020 14:28:01
I’m looking for a reader - I’m not sure if it’s the 1960s or 1970s. I know what it looks like but I can’t remember the title. It’s got a sort of turquoise coloured spine that comes over onto the front page about a third of the way. There is an astronaut on the front wearing an orange-red suit and (I think) you can see earth in the background.
Julie
8/22/2020 14:35:16
Hi Brandi, I can't think of anything that has that coloured spine that overlaps on the front. It doesn't sound like anything I have seen. If you go to the children's forum on this link and ask, hopefully someone should recognise it http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/discussions/AbeBookscouk_BookSleuth/abesleuthuk?dbg=6&redirCnt=2&mobile=y
Maria
9/17/2020 13:50:34
Hi. I've been trying to track a UK school reading book from the 60's. What stood out was that the reader made choices which way to go. I vaguely remember it was hardback and may have had a monkey character on a ship? It wasnt so much the story that was memorable but choosing what happened next. I'd love to find it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Help me solve one of lifes mysteries. :)
Julie Munckton
9/21/2020 13:44:31
Hi Maria, what sprung to mind straight away were these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure , but these were the 1980's not the 60's. Although it could be worth an ask on the ABE forum as well http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/discussions/AbeBookscouk_BookSleuth/abesleuthuk?dbg=6&redirCnt=2&mobile=y
Wayne
9/26/2020 06:05:13
Hello: I’ve been looking for a favourite story of mine from when I was 6 years old. It was in my school reader in 1975. Your site has given me the best lead so far. The title of the story was Andy’s Hideout and from what I learned from your site, I believe it was in a Ginn Reader.
Julie Munckton
9/26/2020 07:27:03
Hi Wayne, I will load up the rest of the scans from this story onto the website for you later today! Glad to be of help !
Wayne
9/27/2020 04:27:37
Thank you so much Julie for posting images of all the pages of Andy’s Hideout! Over the years, I have tried to locate this favourite story from my childhood and always hit a dead end.
Julie Munckton
9/27/2020 06:47:00
Thank you for your kind words, my pleasure, so glad you were able to be reunited with this!
Kieran
10/1/2020 15:06:45
Julie, it's people like you that make the internet a worthwhile place!
Julie Munckton
10/1/2020 15:17:50
Hi Kieran, thank you so much for your kind words, if you pop back to the Piccolo Explorer page you might notice a very familiar barrel shaped body on the page for you!
Kieran
10/17/2020 15:05:30
Julie - you are an absolute gem!!! I've been searching for years. Thank you SO much - you've made my 2020!
Julie Munckton
10/17/2020 15:27:56
No problems at all, my pleasure!
Debbie Nance
11/9/2020 20:57:02
Yes, these readers were used in California - Anaheim Union School District is the 1960s. I remember On Cherry Street from 1966-67. I was looking for an image of Susan and found your wonderful site. THANK YOU! Floods of memories.
Julie Munckton
11/10/2020 10:15:16
So glad you are enjoying the site Debbie!
Missy Kirkland
11/19/2020 04:36:34
I'm looking for a story, it was in a book we used to learn to read. I didnt think it was Dick and Jane, but it may have been. The family went to help harvest maple sugar. I loved it, I read it and it made you feel like you were there in the snow and helping them to make maple syrup. I just can't remember what book it was. I was 7 in 73, but our readers were older. Late 60s early 70s. _
Julie Munckton
11/19/2020 07:41:45
Hi Missy,
Julie Munckton
11/19/2020 07:49:19
I wonder if any of these look familiar https://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/ginn-basic-readers.html as it could have been this series
Dr Marianne M Gilchrist
11/10/2021 17:02:28
I recall a scene like this in one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder 'Little House Books' – I think possibly 'Little House in the Big Woods'? They drop the syrup on snow to set it and make it into a kind of toffee.
Nicholas
11/27/2020 07:28:45
This is a wonderful website! Brings back lots of memories. I am looking for a series of books (Book 1, book 2 and book 3) called I can tell a story (or I can write a story) They are really old and a fantastic resource. Each book was a different colour. So Red, yellow and green. I would love to find these again.
Julie Munckton
11/27/2020 09:22:36
Hi Nicholas , thank you for your kind words. Other than the Mollie Clarke I Can Read A Story featured on the website, I can't find any other series with that title. Ronald Ridout did something similar titled (https://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/a-book-for-me-to-read--write---ronald-ridout.html ) but the only other thing I can suggest is to ask on the ABE forums and see if anyone there has heard of it http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/discussions/AbeBookscouk_BookSleuth/abesleuthuk?dbg=6&redirCnt=2&mobile=y
Adam Waddington
1/10/2021 20:43:59
There was a book about a dog, a caravan and a clown/ circus I think, I can’t remember what it was called, an6 ideas please?
Julie Munckton
1/11/2021 08:11:45
Hello Adam, the one that immediately springs to mind is Three Boys And A Circus https://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book-details.php?id=306
Adam Waddington
1/13/2021 18:37:59
Hi Julie, no it wasn’t Enid Blyton. After a lot of guessing & internet searching I found the series of books, they were called ‘Jacko and Delilah’ by Maureen Coates. I can’t find any for sale anywhere though.
Adam Waddington
1/13/2021 18:57:20
Sorry, the author is Doreen Coates, not Maureen.
Julie Munckton
1/14/2021 08:49:38
Hello Adam, glad you managed to track it down, there are a few copies for sale but it is quite a rare book https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl&st=sl&ref=bf_s2_a1_t1_1&qi=fW0C0pdHZYEAguPIfEZi3oosqAI_1497963026_1:1:1&bq=author%3Ddoreen%2520coates%26title%3Djacko%2520and%2520delilah%2520methuen%2527s%2520resources%2520for%2520reading
Charlotte Goddard
1/28/2021 08:43:18
What a lovely website. It helped me remember the name of the reading scheme we used at infant school, the Through The Rainbow series. Those bronze, silver and gold hardbacks were just magical, kept in a cupboard I remember as not many progressed onto them! I have been trying to find the particular book or books in that scheme which have a/ the story of Pegasus and b/ the story of the Months of the Year (girl given impossible tasks to find strawberries in the snow etc) - at the moment I am slowly buying copies of individual titles but that may be a long and expensive way of finding those stories so if anyone has pictures of the content pages of any of those books (apart from the one on this web site) I would love to find out!
Julie Munckton
1/28/2021 13:31:43
Hi Charlotte , thank you for your kind words. It may be worth asking on the ABE books forums as well to see if anyone there knows. http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/discussions/AbeBookscouk_BookSleuth/abesleuthuk?dbg=6&redirCnt=2&mobile=y
Catrin
1/30/2021 12:52:21
Hi, I love your site! Have been trying to discover what the non-fiction school reading books we had aged 9/10 were. Thanks to your site, I think now they were the hardback versions of Wide Range Readers (blue and green series). One had a chapter on hoopoe birds - don't suppose you know which book it might have been.... Thanks
Julie Munckton
2/1/2021 11:21:22
Hi Catrin,Thank you for your kind words . I've had a look through the copies I've got here so I can tell you it's not in Blue Book 1 , 4 ,6 or Green Book 2 , 3 and 5 or Red Book 6 , 8 or Wide Range Interests 2 , 3, or 4 . It may be worth asking on the ABE forum to see if anyone there is able to help http://forums.abebooks.co.uk/discussions/AbeBookscouk_BookSleuth/abesleuthuk?dbg=6&redirCnt=2&mobile=y
Catrin
2/3/2021 12:32:05
Thank you so much for looking. I will have a look at the forum. Best wishes
Julie Munckton
2/4/2021 11:50:59
Good luck in your search!
Sundar Narayan
4/5/2021 21:47:03
Yours is a fantastic website. I have been looking for a website such as yours dedicated to these old children's books whose artwork I still admire. I grew up reading some of these books. Great work!
Julie
4/6/2021 11:28:40
Thank you Sundar , for your kind words!
Emily Wood
5/20/2021 15:53:14
lovely website! Now my own children are learning to read, I've been remembering the great books we had which had a mixture of fictional stories, abridged versions of classic books, and true stories. I learned so much from them, and they inspired me to go on and read a lot of the classics in later years but couldn't remember what they were called. Now I have found them - the Wide Range Readers! It's a shame they don't still exist, perhaps in an updated form, as I think they were great.
Julie Munckton
5/20/2021 15:57:31
Hi Emily, thank you for your kind words. The Wide Range Readers were excellent books , we do really need something similar these days. - Julie
Rosalind
6/27/2021 12:05:52
Hi there. I notice in your collection listed you do not show (therefore I assume you do not have):- (23) Macdonald Junior Reference Library Flowers of The Garden
Julie
6/27/2021 16:11:45
Hi Rosalind, many thanks for your kind offer, I have actually got that one recently , but thank you very much for letting me know.
imi maufe
7/28/2021 12:51:04
hi love this site it has bought back many good memories from primary school. I am trying to find information about some spelling aids that we had at the beginning of the 1980s - they were orange card folders that opened out with card shelves where you could move around words on small cards to make sentences - do you remember them, or know them? obviously not something that pops up in google easily. again thanks for the site. and a trip down memory lane! Shiela books were a real hit with me.
Julie Munckton
7/29/2021 10:20:57
Hi Imi, many thanks for your kind words. I've not come across those spelling aids before. I know most of the reading schemes came with flashcards, but can't remember any orange folders. One of the tricks I do have to find things is to use Ebay, type as much info in the search bar as you can and then save the search, it then emails results to you every day...and you may just have them turn up!
Debs
11/10/2021 15:32:27
Hi would you know which book band level equivalent the book called 'Poster Pete' is on? we also have lots of ginn books which we are looking to sell. would you buy them?
Julie Munckton
11/10/2021 15:46:17
Hi Debs, I know Poster Pete is classed as Year Two ( 6 - 8 year olds ) , which would probably put it level 4 or 5 on the Ginn book levels .I'm sorry I'm not actually buying any books at the moment, but thank you for thinking of me! - Julie 12/7/2021 07:59:23
Hi there, I'm a South African librarian at the University of Pretoria helping a researcher collect material for a chapter in a book. We're trying to get hold of A Noble Company revised edition of the Beacon Readers. Would you have a copy, please? We would be so grateful if you can at least let us have the table of contents? Thanks so much! Kind regards, Adrienne
Julie Munckton
12/7/2021 10:55:35
Hello,
Gloria
1/28/2022 16:07:55
Mystery on Weddington Hill
Julie Munckton
1/28/2022 16:29:07
Hello,
Andrew Lally
3/1/2022 13:47:24
Hello, am looking for a book that had two tales I remember, one about the boy who stuck his finger in the dyke and two about romulus and remus brought up by wolves to found rome. It was used in at least Birmingham (UK) for kids up to the age of 12, probably more likely age 10 and in use in the 1970s. A greyish book with illustrations that I did not see among the pix of school textbooks on this website. Perhaps somebody remembers.
Julie Munckton
3/1/2022 14:04:19
Hi Andrew,
Jane
5/11/2022 13:18:01
I know this is a VERY long shot. I went to Ansdell Secondary School between 1976 and 1981 (now LSAHS). The book was old-ish then. I can't search the school library as I'm no longer a pupil. I contacted my old school, but they said they didn't have time to look for an old books I can't remember. The book was dark red, hardback. It had about 12 line-drawn images (to cut out or copy) of ladies fashion from 1100 to about 1900. The pieces were cut out using fabric, pasted to card and adding embellishments. The hands and faces were cut from black card. The book gave types and colours of fabric and embellishment. Then you put them into picture frames. It also gave you the colour of card and mount for the picture. I made about 6 of them as gifts for my great-aunties (great-aunties and pictures now long gone) I have no idea of author, designer or illustrator. it was about A4 size. I can remember it so vividly and making the pictures I would love to make them again. I've tried every possible place on the internet with no luck. If you can think of anything I would love to hear from you. thanks in advance Jane
Julie
5/11/2022 15:21:41
Hi Jane. Although it doesn't ring any bells with me I've set up a couple of searches on the Internet Archive for you to take a look at which are at the bottom of the post as they are very long links. To get in to the main body of the books you may have to sign up to be a free member. I know some school libraries used to take books from local authors so some school stock used to be a little unusual . Hope the links help! - Julie
jane
5/11/2022 18:04:01
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I'll try these. Thanks again :)
David
5/12/2022 05:42:17
Hello! I am looking for a second grade (1964) language book. The title was Trails of Adventure or Trails to Adventure. One of the stories in it was Rikki Tikki Tavi. Any idea where I might find that book?
Julie
5/12/2022 07:17:56
Hi David, I've produced an Internet Archive search for you below, take a look and see if these ring a bell. If they do you can create a free membership to look further inside the books ,hope that helps! The originals are 1938 but there were many reprints over the years.
Ian Bland
7/31/2022 01:55:57
Just want to say thank you for this website, which has finally allowed me to identify the series of books at my (UK) primary school in the 1970s, the identity of which has been niggling at me for years! All I could remember was they were colour coded and moving onto the next book was seen as something of a personal triumph- "I'm on the Orange Book now!" kind of thing.
Julie
7/31/2022 07:57:32
Thank you for your kind words, so glad the website was able to help. You can sleep easy each night now!! - Julie
Jerome Burns
8/21/2022 20:06:33
Hi there. Great website. I'm surprised you don't feature New Worlds to Conquer by Edward Ramsbottom (W & R Chambers) Pleasure and Progress Readers by Forbes Macgregor ( McDougall's Educational Co Ltd)
Julie Munckton
8/22/2022 12:16:11
Many thanks for your kind comments, will certainly look in to those two schemes.
Catherine Whitfield
9/20/2022 22:39:00
Hi Julie
Ms Julie Munckton
9/21/2022 10:47:34
Hello Catherine, thank you for your kind words. I've never heard of that book , it might be worth asking on the ABE books forum to see of any one there remembers it ? Hope you manage to track it down https://community.abebooks.com/s/forum-topic-results?topicId=0TO3n0000003yS1GAI&type=Community%20Forum&language=en_US
Ian Bland
9/21/2022 12:49:23
Accidentally unsubscribed so posting again to subscribe as I rather like these discussions :)
julie
9/21/2022 13:10:28
Excellent! Welcome back! 11/15/2022 11:16:32
Hello, a colleague has recently mentioned 'Wide Range Readers Gold Level' and I can't find any mention anywhere of gold level. Could she have got her facts wrong, or was there such a thing in the 1970s? I would love to buy her a second hand copy if I could. Thanks so much for any help you can give.
Julie Munckton
11/15/2022 11:20:27
Hello, that's certainly a new one to me. I've never heard of Wide Range Readers having a gold level, Through the Rainbow reading scheme certainly did, but never heard about a Wide Range Reader one! - Julie
Peter
11/27/2022 21:06:15
Hi Julie, what a wonderful web site! Seeing the Rainbow reading and Fletcher maths books took me right back to being a small child again! I can remember them so well and it brought back all the happy memories of those early school years! Thank you very much for this great site.
Julie Munckton
11/28/2022 12:11:41
Hello Peter,
Martyn Cordey
1/27/2023 13:07:54
Hello, great website.
Julie Munckton
1/28/2023 10:54:21
Hi Martyn , I'm afraid I'll have to say no as I've run out of bookshelf space ! But I do hope you can find a good home for them.
Tim
3/18/2023 18:56:19
Great site... About 50 years ago I read a version of Beowulf in junior school and I've tried to find it for years. It might have been a Wide Range Reader version but I would only really know it if I saw the cover. Same with a book I bought from the school book club about travelling by wagon train (not The Oregon Trail) prospecting for gold in a stream using a pan and so on.
Charlie
3/30/2023 17:56:10
Lovely site. Thought you might like this Beanstalk Book https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LRStFGSiL9UsF7OAvA6l_KYnZksaBNVj/view
Julie Munckton
3/30/2023 18:18:01
Many, many thanks for this!
Jan
7/19/2023 17:08:41
Wonderful website! Such memories, and a fantastic resource!
Julie
7/19/2023 17:15:50
Thank you for your kind words, it may be worth searching the internet database https://archive.org/search?query=ginn&page=2&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%5B1955+TO+1970%5D this is a search for Ginn between 1955 - 1970 and see if any covers ring a bell. Otherwise it might have been a Wide Range Reader, but I think it more likely to have been Ginn. Hope you do find it. - Julie
Jan
7/20/2023 16:34:32
Thanks, Julie! 2/1/2024 23:55:23
Thank you for this site it is really useful.
Julie Munckton
2/2/2024 06:10:36
Hello, thank you for the kind words, it's not a series that I collect myself but I do know that ABE books have quite a few of this series for sale, if you do an advanced search you can input a publication date to find the ones from the years you remember, good luck in your quest!
Shannon
4/26/2024 09:37:39
It should be '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s, not 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's, because the apostrophes are in place of what's missing, which are the 19s. Like in the word what's, the apostrophe represents the missing i, in can't the apostrophe represents the missing n and o, etc. I happen to be watching Our Miss Brooks, at the moment. Being and English teacher, she just wanted me to let you know. ;) Your website is boss, neato, groovy, and totally awesome! I'm glad it showed up!
Ms Julie Munckton
4/26/2024 12:00:16
I had been meaning to change that for some time, so thank you for reminding me! You are the only person who has ever noticed this, so congratulations on your English grammar skills!
Deanna
8/16/2024 11:25:50
Good day
Ms Julie Munckton
8/16/2024 12:28:35
Hello,
Indi Mitchell
8/24/2024 13:16:39
I've been trying to locate an anthology of short stories we used in English classes in the first year of secondary school in England in about 1987. I think it was called "Danger" but I could be wrong but basically all the short stories were about danger of some sort. The cover was white and I think had a red triangular road sign with "!" in it. One of the stories was about murders in a small town in America and it was left to the reader to work out who was the murderer (it was pretty obvious it was the Police Officer!) - probably not something that would feature in today's curriculum but the stories were really well written. Any ideas of what it might be or where I can get a copy? Google searches are coming back blank.
Ms Julie Munckton
8/24/2024 15:16:52
I've had a search around and nothing has shown up , one of the best places to search would be The Internet Archive https://archive.org/search?query=danger+&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221984%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221985%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221986%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221987%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221988%22&and%5B%5D=year%3A%221989%22 I've done a search for you with the most likely year of publications already set in , good luck finding it!
Indi Mitchell
8/24/2024 13:19:19
I'm looking for a book we used in history in primary school in the 70s/early 80s. I think it was called "The Middle Ages" and had stuff about castles and possibly a falconer on the front of it. Anyone got any ideas?
Ms Julie Munckton
8/24/2024 14:57:47
Hello,
Indi Mitchell
8/24/2024 13:24:28
I'm trying to work out what books we used for the early years in English lessons at primary school. I can remember one - it was about A4 size (although everything looked big to me at 5 or 6 years old!), red, paperback and had a picture (photo) on the front cover. On the inside, there were pictures (photos) on the top of each page with questions and spaces for answers underneath. The one that sticks out in my mind is a picture of children making a play den with blankets. Jog any memories anyone?
Ms Julie Munckton
8/24/2024 15:03:36
Hello,
Lisa
9/25/2024 08:45:45
Hi I am looking for Kathy and Mark readers, and your website came up. Do you sell them? or know of where I can find them please.
Julie Munckton
9/25/2024 11:18:19
Hi Lisa , I've seen a few for sale on the ABE website but they are very rare.
Mike
10/7/2024 22:14:17
Hi, I don't know if anyone might be able to tell me the name of a book I was given in the early or mid 70s: it contained mainly poems (there might have been a few very short stores too) by various writers; the book was hardback, about A4 size, but not very thick. Each poem had a colourful illustration. The only one I can remember as definitely being in the book was Autumn Fires by Robert Louis Stevenson. The cover was pale yellow and had a naive picture of children in a classroom - looking from the back of the room, past the children's desks to the teacher's desk. I think there was a big globe on the teacher's desk, and a blackboard behind (I think with some sums chalked on it).
Ruth Lawrence
3/10/2025 07:36:22
Love this blog! I collect old school text books and felt alone until I found this! I wish you could publish an actual book on the topic!
Julie Munckton
3/10/2025 09:55:52
I'm not alone! Excellent, I'm glad there is someone else out there doing the same as me and rescuing these text books from extinction!
Hi! I absolutely love your site! I've been trying to remember the non-fiction school reading books we had around ages 9-10, and thanks to your site, I believe they were the hardback editions of the Wide Range Readers (blue and green series). One of them had a chapter on hoopoe birds—any chance you know which book that might have been? Thanks so much!
Julie Munckton
3/12/2025 08:18:35
Hello,
Chris Conway
4/24/2025 01:38:26
Does anyone know how many numbered textbooks there was in the Making Sure of Maths series by Quinn & Watson? Any help would be appreciated.
Julie Munckton
4/24/2025 02:17:37
Hello, according to 'The Internet Archive' the series is 6 volumes in total, but book 5 which you can borrow online to view doesn't have a list of the other books in the series which is a little unhelpful! Hope that is of some help.
Chris Conway
4/25/2025 01:43:05
Thank you Julie. The Internet Archive? I’ve never heard of it. Do you know where I might acquire these books besides eBay and Abe etc? At present I can get hold of 1, 2 and 3, but not 4, 5 or 6.
Julie Munckton
4/25/2025 05:24:39
Take a look on https://www.bookfinder.com/search/?st=sr&ac=qr&mode=basic&author=Quinn+watson&title=&isbn=&lang=en&destination=us¤cy=USD&binding=*&keywords=&publisher=&min_year=&max_year=&minprice=&maxprice=&classic=off. The link should take you straight to the results
Chris Conway
4/26/2025 02:30:01
Thank you again Julie. One more question if you may. Instead of primary school level, do you know of any good quality old Key Stage 3 mathematics textbooks, or even earlier pre-curriculum grammar school math books?
Julie Munckton
4/26/2025 06:16:05
Hi, Beta/Alpha Mathematics and also Oxford's Comprehensive Practice series both on the following link may be a good place to start, Beta Mathematics had an interesting design https://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/betaalpha-mathematics.html . Glad to be of help 7/14/2025 13:20:42
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Just Me
10/1/2025 21:06:12
Hi, can anyone help me identify a textbook/reader we used in Spanish lessons in high school (in the UK): this was in the early 80s, and the book looked quite dated, so I'm guessing it was a 70s (or even 60s) publishing. It was a relatively small hardback book, and I'm sure the cover was orange. The book was about a British boy who stayed with a family in Spain for a holiday, and learning the language/culture. Many thanks 10/23/2025 10:40:53
I've been looking for a series of books I read at school aged about 11 for a looong time ! If you can help it would be a miracle. This would have been about 1982, which was my last year in primary school. The series of little books was centreed around playing a sort of american football, but more violent, dressed in spiky armour, on the moon. Teams would travel to the moon to play their matches. The little books were approximately A5 in size, of about 50 pages, with a glossy illustrated cover. Others are also looking and have provided extra clues like; as the series progressed, it developed into some kind of alien war possibly with the next generation of children becoming involved too. Other clues, but might also be red herrings include; Ginn 360 Reading Programme, "Moonbase", "Games on Luna". I never managed to finish reading the series, and I'd like to ! Thanks for any help from anyone on this subject, Darren
Sundar Narayan
12/7/2025 14:44:53
Great website. Today, I spent 2 hours go through it. There are also other British books aimed at educating or entertaining children, especially teenagers. Comics digests published by Fleetway, Lion Annuals, Action Annuals, Story Papers, etc. Boys especially liked Meccano magazine, Tri-ang or Hornby model railway magazines, * Wonders of the World (* = Railway, Shipping, Engineering), Marvels of the Modern World, various Junior Encyclopaedias, Johns' Biggles books, Berkeley Gray's Conquest novels, just to name a few British books. Leave a Reply. |
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