Books suitable for 4yo just getting into letters and words

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Letters have just started to click with DS and he spends a lot of time picking out the starting sounds of words and telling me them, or pointing letters out on signs or in magazines or books, and he can also, when he's in the mood, identify about 10-12 letters now.

We have just read a book that came home from nursery from an old series called Letterland which I thought was a bit bonkers - each character is created from a letter, and there are lots of words in the story relating to these letters - but he loved it and picked out more letters and sounds than I realised he knew.

So I want to support him now he's actually showing some interest by getting a few story books that are good for learning letters and sounds. I'm conscious that he starts school in September and I don't want to undermine anything they will do, but I'm equally conscious with DS that he makes his learning leaps quite suddenly and quite obsessively and I think in a week or two all he will want to do is learn letters! So I want to have a few things available for him.

There still seems to be Letterland on Amazon so even though the one he has is old, maybe it's a good idea to get some of these. Anyone used them?

Any suggestions?

Usborne - Very First Reading set or indiv books in series
Usborne wipe clean books - getting reading for writing, Numbers, ABC
Usborne sticker books - 123, ABC etc

Thanks - will check out Usborne!

I found "Bunny and Bee" books by (I think) Sam Williams great for first reading. They rhyme and all start off with the same sentence "Here is a house, a house in a tree. The house is the home of Bunny and Bee." and are quite simple words.

I looked at Letterland with dd1 but she didn't find them very interesting.
She learnt her letters by typing. She would ask for a word to spell, then I started by pointing out the letters and saying "m for mummy, u for umbrella, m for mummy..." By the end of a fortnight she knew all the letters, and because they were uppercase on the keyboard and lower case when they appeared in word, she knew both.

If he's interested in games on the computer, there's letter games on the CBeeBies website, under Alphablocks. Ds used to love them when they first came out.

thanks dewe :)