I'd like some examples of basic picture/word books that actually have a story to them, what are the bob books?
Off topic from the thread title, but let me put in a word for Oxford Reading Tree Songbird Phonics (not to be confused with other ORT series). These are (or many of them are? I forget) by Julia Donaldson, who wrote many famous children's books such as The Gruffalo. It shows! DS6 still insists that they all live in his bookshelf and occasionally reads them. He already enjoyed them at just-3 and I don't remember any of them being "scary", which was a recurrent problem with books more generally.
