To think that school reading books should not have typos in

[PigeonPie]

DS1 was reading to me this evening. It's an ORT Tree Tops book and it has a typo in it ('every' instead of 'ever'), and it's not the first one I've noticed.

Considering these books have been around for ages, why have they not been checked and checked and checked again - and preferably before publication?

I know it's not a big thing really, but it has irritated me that something published like that is simply wrong.

I don't understand that either.

I also hate the way they use 'And' at the beginning of sentences

I hate it!
I work as an LSA with a visually impaired student (aged 12) so she has large print books and they are littered with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors (mixing up to and too, your and you're for example). She already has a visual impairment and a learning difficulty and this does not help! Parents don't speak English so cannot help point out errors when reading at home and she, understandably, doesn't want to read the same part again at school.

You'll be glad to know that DS1's teacher was suitably horrified and will be contacting OUP. The best bit is that one of the school's Governors works for OUP and is in the ORT Department so we may get somewhere .

I have naturally offered to be a proof reader!