Old Lob I started school in 1953 and remember every word of those books. I could read a bit before I started school so really got a lot out of them. I remember sitting next to the slower readers and pointing to each word and teaching them to read. We were in a class of 42 children so the quick learners had to help the others.
Many years later I started teaching at a small, old fashioned private school and found all these same books, covered in dust in the back of a cupboard. I loved reading them all over again.