One Two Three and Away

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One, Two, Three and Away ( ISBN   0003142183) is 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 1960s90s 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.

Contents

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.

List of books

Pre-readers

New publication, from The Reading Hut, updated ISBNs

Bundle: 978-1-916941-36-6 Set of 36 Pre-Readers

Individual Books

Introductory books

New publication from The Reading Hut, updated ISBNs

Bundles:

The Main Readers

New publication from The Reading Hut, updated ISBNs

978-1-916941-39-7 The Main Readers Series - 20 Books

  

Blue

Green

Red

Yellow

Hummingbirds

Other media

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.

References

  1. "One, Two, Three and Away – Roger Red Hat | Child Of The 1980's". www.childofthe1980s.com. Retrieved 2018-08-19.