Summary
If you’re just beginning to take the reading journey with your child, My First Reading Library is a great first step. It’s a great collection from Usborne, trusted publishers of children’s books. There are fifty books included in this substantial box set, covering the first three stages of reading development. They will take you from the phonics they’re learning in schools, through short stories they ca n read by themselves, right up to longer stories that will help build confidence in their new skills. The box also comes with a QR code, which links to a parents’ guide online.
This collection is part of the Usborne Reading Programme, which can be used in concert with your child’s school curriculum or as a foundation for homeschooling. The complete programme encompasses three series: Very First Reading, First Reading and Young Reading. Both First and Young Reading have four levels each, and Very First Reading is one level, bringing it to a total of nine. This box set, by renowned children’s book publishers Usborne, features the first three levels of reading, making the perfect start.
What comes next?
This box set is just the first step in your child’s reading journey. Once they’ve completed My First Reading Library, they’re ready to move onto Usborne’s My Reading Library . It’s the perfect follow-up because it picks up the Usborne Reading Programme from right where the first box set leaves off. My Reading Library features 14 books from Usborne First Reading Level Three, 16 books from Usborne First Reading Level Four, and 20 books from Usborne Young Reading Series One.
For more advanced readers, there’s The Usborne Reading Collection . This features books from Usborne Young Reading Series One and Two. Afterwards, there’s The Usborne Reading Collection for Confident Readers , featuring books from Usborne Young Reading Series Two and Three. With Usborne, your child can move from a beginner reader to an enthusiastic and fluent book lover.
If you’re looking for more book sets to support your child’s reading, we also stock Read it Yourself with Ladybird . This is a fifty book collection of classic tales and incredible facts, organised into four reading levels. We also stock packs from the Biff, Chip & Kipper series, which develop your child’s reading skills across six levels of assessment. All these reading schemes are complementary, so you can build your child’s reading abilities with a wide variety of different stories.
From the publisher
The first 22 usborne books are taken from Usborne Very First Reading. With these your child takes the first steps in reading with your help; following the phonics methods used in school.
1. Pirate Pat
2. Double Trouble
3. The Dressing-Up Box
4. Captain Mac
5. A Bus For Miss Moss
6. The Perfect Pet
7. Dog Diary
8. Bad Jack Fox
9. Grizzle Bear Rock
10. The Magic Ring
11. The Queen Makes A Scene
12. A Fright In The Night
13. Stop That Cow!
14. The Deep Dark Woods
15. Moon Zoom
16. Run, Rabbit, Run!
17. Late Night At The Zoo
18. Wild School
19. The Circus Under The Sea
20. The Monster Diner
21. Knight Fight
22. Mr Mystery
The next 12 books are taken from Usborne First Reading Level One. These delightful and very short stories are for children to try reading themselves.
23. The Greedy Dog
24. The Rabbit's Tale
25. Anansi And The Bag Of Wisdom
26. How The Whale Got His Throat
27. How The Elephant Got His Trunk
28. Under The Ground
29. On The Moon
30. Why The Kangaroo Jumps
31. The Sun and The Wind
32. King Midas and The Gold
33. How The Crab Got His Claws
34. Anansi And The Tug Of War
16 further books are taken from Usborne First Reading Level Two. These slightly longer stories will build stamina and reading confidence.
35. Doctor Foster Went To Gloucester
36. The Baobab Tree
37. How Bear Lost His Tail
38. Little Miss Muffet
39. How Zebra Got Their Stripes
40. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
41. The Daydreamer
42. The Chilly Little Penguin
43. The Tortoise and The Eagle
44. King Donkey Ears
45. Clever Rabbit and The Wolves
46. Stone Soup
47. How Elephants Lose Their Wings
48. The Little Giraffe
49. The Dragon and The Phoenix
50. Clever Rabbit and The Lion
How to help your child with reading:
For more information on the Usborne Reading Programme, visit www.usborne.com/readingprogramme