Comments on: One, Two, Three and Away – Roger Red Hat

By: Rowbirdie

Rowbirdie — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:00:47 +0000

Hang on to these books if you have them. They are a ‘graded reading scheme ‘ from before reading ‘real books’ became the fashion.That means they are structured to increase the reading vocabulary in small steps and are brilliant for teaching any child to read, including those with difficulties in learning to read.

Sadly, nothing more modern does the same thing. There are many graded ’series’ but these have bigger jumps of difficulty between books and less repetition. I have used these with struggling readers in the initial stages of learning to read. Children love them because they can read them- even though adults might find them repetitious.

Got to this site looking for some to buy.The fact that they are so expensive now on ebay must mean that many remember them with affection as being the means to learning to read

By: Phoebe Jayne

Phoebe Jayne — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:09:48 +0000

You can always pick up copies on eBay fairly cheaply

By: Big Boo

Big Boo — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:26:10 +0000

Er, Mr. and Mrs. Red Hat?

Sorry, my memory isn’t good enough – anybody out there boasting the complete set able to supply a few names for us please?

By: Skittles

Skittles — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:06:14 +0000

I have a whole array of rubber stamps with the characters on that im going to sell as soon as i can find the names for them I read them all when I was a child and my dad is a school caretaker, he noticed them all being thrown out and asked if he could bring them home for my one year old to read when he’s a little older.

I’v unfortunatley forgotten alot of the names as the few books I now have are repeated alot.

Does anyone know any of the names of the adult characters?

I have the old man and the idian childrens mother and can’t for the life of me remember their names x

By: kinkieel

kinkieel — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:36:32 +0000

I just checked amazon to see if they sell them, for a copy of roger red hat its £36.95!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love the books but i am not a millionaire! lol

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:33:15 +0000

Well I’m amazed!! I have recently decided to do some one to one teaching of reading which I haven’t done for about 15+ years now. Having discovered all my teaching stuff stored away in the loft I find I still have 2 COMPLETE SETS of 1,2,3 and Away! I was worried they were too dated and was going to get rid of them, but having read many of your comments I have changed my mind and am hanging on to them,dated or not. Sorry everyone! Good old Roger Red Hat.

By: Big Boo

Big Boo — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:33:51 +0000

Thanks for the corrections Jane, and I’m sorry to hear you are finding them a little boring. I guess this is an instance where fond memories become tarnished when viewed again through adult eyes.

I’m sure your daughters are a bit confused by the telephone thing, it must seem absurd to them that people wouldn’t have a mobile phone, let alone a landline phone at home.

As to the stranger thing, it shows how the world has gotten a scarier place. Not that I want to defend the stranger issue, I’m sure when these books were written kids were still warned about strangers, but I suppose communities were much smaller and tightly knit back then, so stranger danger wasn’t so much of an issue as it is now.

By: Jane W

Jane W — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:34:18 +0000

My daughter is learning to read with these books now, at school in 2011! I also learned how to read with them. So all of the characters listed above are in there…a couple of inaccuracies though

Gopal is a girl, and Ramu is the spelling not Ramoo.

I have to say I am a little bored of them now, they really are quite dated and that is evident in the language used. In one story they go to the shop to make a telephone call and they spend more time that I would like going into strangers houses! I also have to read them all again in September when my second daughter starts reading them…