Far Beyond ABC. Written by Lisa Holt & Lyn Wendon

Far Beyond ABC completes an invaluable set of three books, which together hold the key to learning to read. Beautifully illustrated, it opens up the secrets of 20 more major English spelling patterns. The best of it is that the child-friendly story logic draws on children's thinking skills and their imaginations, so they easily remember the phonic facts that the stories carry.