Janet and John

Janet da John jerin littattafai ne na farko don yara, wanda James Nisbet da Co suka buga a Burtaniya a cikin kundi huɗu a cikin 1949-50, kuma ɗaya daga cikin na farko da ya yi amfani da hanyar "duba da faɗi". Ƙarin kundin ya bayyana daga baya, kuma jerin sun zama nasarar tallace-tallace a cikin shekarun 1950 da 60, a Burtaniya da New Zealand. A cikin shekarun 1970s, an yi la'akari da littattafan da suka wuce, kuma an ba da sabuntawa da yawa. Facsimiles na biyu daga cikin asali kundin da aka sake buga a 2007 don biyan kasuwar nostalgia.

 Asalin 
Littattafan Janet da John sun samo asali ne daga jerin Alice da Jerry da Row Peterson da Kamfanin suka buga a Amurka, jerin da Mabel O'Donnell ya rubuta kuma Florence da Margaret Hoopes suka kwatanta su.

A cikin 1949, mai bugawa James Nisbet da Co sun ba da lasisi kuma sun sake buga su a Burtaniya a matsayin jerin littattafai huɗu da ake kira Janet da John .  Wadannan suna da sabon rubutun Anglicised na Rona Munro, matar John Mackenzie Wood wanda ke gudanar da Nesbit da Co; ta kasance malama ce daga New Zealand. Hotuna sun kasance na Florence da Margaret Hoopes, tare da gudummawa daga Christopher Sanders.

 Littattafai 
Littattafan farko na jerin Janet da John na 1949-50 an kira su kawai Littattafai Ɗaya zuwa Hudu  kuma an gabatar da su, ta amfani da ƙayyadaddun ƙamus, abubuwan da suka faru daga rayuwar yau da kullun na ɗan'uwa da 'yar'uwa.  Ƙarin kundin nan da nan ya biyo baya: Ta hanyar Garden Gate (1950),  Off to Play (1950),  I Know a Story (1950),  Here We Go (1951),  da Once Upon a Time (1952).  Masu bugawa sun bayyana littattafan a matsayin "gaskiya ga mafi kyawun rayuwar yara na zamani".

Da farko a 1949, Nisbet ya fitar da sigar da aka buga musamman don New Zealand, tare da marubutan da masu zane-zane iri ɗaya. Akwai littattafai bakwai a cikin duka: Out and About (1949), I Know a Story (1949), Na tafi Walking (1949), Here We Go (1949), Off to Play (1949), Through the Garden Gate (1951), da Once upon a Time (1951).  Abinda ya fi dacewa da New Zealand shine labari na Māori wanda aka haɗa a cikin taken karshe, Once Upon a Time .  An rarraba kwafin dubu tamanin na kowane littafi kyauta ga makarantun New Zealand daga 1950. An buga wasu 20-30,000 na kowannensu a 1956, kuma wasu 12-20,000 a 1959.

 Rashin farin ciki - shekarun 1950 da 1960 
The books became a familiar aid for teaching schoolchildren throughout the 1950s and 1960s, being used in 81% of British primary schools in 1968. They were one of the first popular "look-and-say" or "whole word" reading schemes, the approach being to repeat words sufficiently frequently that children memorised them – in contrast with the phonics method in which children were encouraged to decode groups of letters.

 Shekaru na 1970 
A cikin shekarun 1970s, an haɓaka sabbin ra'ayoyi game da yadda yara ke koyon karatu, kuma "littattafai na ainihi" tare da "labaran gaskiya" sun zama masu shahara. Gabatarwar Janet da John game da dangin nukiliya na tsakiya ya fadi, kuma an dakatar da jerin a shekara ta 1976. 

 Kathy da Mark 
Yin aiki tare da Philippa Murray, Rona Munro ta kirkiro jerin sabuntawa ga Nisbet da Co da ake kira Kathy da Mark. A cikin Burtaniya akwai tarin littattafai guda uku na ''Kathy da Mark Little Book, kowannensu na kundin guda huɗu: Green 1-4 (1973),  Orange 1-4 (19 1973),  da Turquoise 1-4 (1974).  Sun haɗa ƙananan zane-zane a cikin layi a maimakon wasu kalmomi, kamar 'laima'. Nisbet ya buga littattafai iri-iri na Kathy da Mark tare da wasu launuka da lakabi. 

 Shekaru na 2000 

 Star Kids version 
Bayan sayen haƙƙin Janet da John daga Nisbet da Co, Star Kids Ltd ta buga jerin sabuntawa na kundin 33 a cikin 2001 wanda ya shafi karatu, rubutu da lissafi ga yara masu shekaru hudu zuwa bakwai. Yayinda aka riƙe sunayen Janet da John, an sabunta rubutun da zane-zane don haɗawa da haruffa daga kabilun kabilanci daban-daban da kuma iyalai marasa nukiliya. Jerin ya jawo wasu zargi daga waɗanda ba su yarda da rashin kula da sautin sa don goyon bayan "duba da faɗi".

 An sake buga shi a Summersdale 
A cikin shekara ta 2007, a matsayin wani ɓangare na yanayin da ake yi a cikin bugawa na tsoffin abubuwan da aka fi so, Summersdale Publishers sun sake buga littattafai biyu na Janet da John'' na asali, Here We Go and Off to Play . 

 Amsoshi masu mahimmanci daga baya 
Bayan littattafan sun fadi daga cikin salon sun zama abin ba'a bisa ga maganganun da suka yi da kuma abubuwan da ke cikin matsakaicin matsayi. Mai watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo Terry Wogan a kai a kai ya yi wa littattafan ba'a a kan shirinsa na BBC Radio 2 Wake Up To Wogan ta hanyar karanta labaran da ke nuna babban Janet da John a cikin salon asali, suna samun ban dariya ta hanyar euphemism da innuendo.

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