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One, Two, Three and Away ( ISBN 0003142183) was a series of books for children written by Sheila K. McCullagh, often known as the Roger Red Hat Books, [1] or The Village with Three Corners. Illustrated mostly by Ferelith Eccles Williams and published by Collins in the 1960s–90s and more recently by The Reading Hut Ltd with new ISBNs. Characters include Roger Red Hat, Billy Blue Hat, twins Johnny and Jennifer Yellow Hat, and Percy Green.
The books were written at a number of levels of increasing difficulty for those learning to read. After the Pre-readers and Introductory book, there are 4 coloured sections, in increasing order of difficulty, blue, red, green, yellow. Accompanying the red, green and yellow levels there are the Main Readers following a loose story arc, 1–3 in pink are aligned with red books, 4–5 with the green, and 6–10 with the yellow.
Pre-readers
New publication, from The Reading Hut, updated ISBNs
Introductory books
New publication from The Reading Hut, updated ISBNs
Main readers
Blue
Green
Red
Yellow
Hummingbirds
An educational video edition of One, Two, Three and Away: The Village with Three Corners was also released in 1996 by First Independent Video. Directed by Mark Taylor and produced by Bristol-based animation studio A Productions, the video consisted of drawn animation sequences, on screen games and songs. It was executive produced by Dan Maddicott at United Media.
Also available are teachers' notes and activity books, wooden dolls and stamp kits.
The One, Two, Three and Away! series can be purchased directly from current publishers The Reading Hut
In 2023, SEN specialist Emma Hartnell-Baker mapped the books orthographically for dyslexic children, facilitating the development of phonemic awareness and orthographic knowledge. Within Word Mapping Mastery IPA aligned phoneme characters (Phonemies) are also used to improve orthographic awareness, without detracting from the main focus within the One, Two, Three and Away! series: vocabulary knowledge, comprehension, and reading for pleasure.
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