Anita Bensoussane wrote:I also read some of the Milly-Molly-Mandy tales (with the Brisley illustrations) and enjoyed looking at the map of the village. My daughter liked them too when she was little. Although the stories were simple, they were still stories. The Peter and Jane books are "readers" so most of them don't have a coherent story - just snapshots of the children's lives with short sentences like "Peter has a toy and Jane has a toy" (you have to look at the picture to see that Peter has bought a toy digger from the shop and Jane has bought a doll).
Peter & Jane sound a lot like the Dick and Jane stories which helped American children to learn reading for several decades. William Gray created them in the late 1920's.
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