Teaching my son to read English......which books do I need?

[collision]

My ds is 2 and a half and is bi-lingual in English and Italian. He speaks fluent English in full sentences and some Italian. We live in Italy and once he starts school he will speak Italian fluently too.

We speak English at home which is why he is fluent in English but I am wondering what the best way is to teach him to read in English and what books I should get for him. I realise he is very young and there is no hurry but I would like to help him in any way I can.

Does anyone have any experience of this? Also the education system here is excellent but he starts proper primary school at age 6 and not 4 like the UK and I dont want him to be too behind if we ever moved back to the UK.

TIA

collision, in my daughter's primary school they use the Oxford Reading Tree books, they're graded and seem like a good system to me also they seem to be very appealing to children with fun illustrations. There's a lot of supporting material too - software, videos and other books. You can also buy a 'Teaching your child to read for Dummies' book which is supposed to be good (Amazon sell that and the Reading Tree books). The Reading Tree packs come with notes for teachers.

My daughter is bilingual in German & English, she's 5 so only a beginner at reading anyway, but she can read a little bit of German now. It's been quite easy for her really, as long as she knows that a letter has a different sound in German she just takes it in her stride really.

Thanks for that GG.....had forgotten I had posted this in Sep so never got back to it!! Will look at the books on Amazon.