One Two Three and Away
One, Two, Three and Away! (ISBN 0003142183) is a series of books for children written by Sheila K. McCullagh, often known as the Roger Red Hat Books, or The Village with Three Corners. Illustrated mostly by Ferelith Eccles Williams and published by Collins in the 1960sā90s and more recently by The Reading Hut Ltd with new ISBNs. Characters include Roger Red Hat, Billy Blue Hat, twins Johnny and Jennifer Yellow Hat, and Percy Green.
The books were written at a number of levels of increasing difficulty for those learning to read. After the Pre-readers and Introductory book, there are 4 coloured sections, in increasing order of difficulty, blue, red, green, yellow. Accompanying the red, green and yellow levels there are the Main Readers following a loose story arc, 1ā3 in pink are aligned with red books, 4ā5 with the green, and 6ā10 with the yellow.
However the books have since been updated for children at risk of dyslexia, and orthographically mapped with Phonemies, also known as Speech Sound Monsters. They are displayed in the online library at https://www.SpeedieReadies.com