Are these phonics books American and does it matter?

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Its the Lego Super Heroes Scholastic box set.

Its not a school book but one I've bought DS (reception age) I think its a bit advanced for him right now but was just flicking through the first one and I'm a bit confused. The book focuses on the short a sound but lots of the key words are not short a to a normal English accent. The list on the back is:
Asks
Bad
Bat
Batman
Blast
Catch
Fast

etc etc you get the picture. Surely Asks is not same a sound as Bad. All these words in the book are in bold. It's going to be too confusing for him isn't it? Is there a way to explain this?

Thanks in advance

In case you're struggling they are the three wise monkeys

Mrz, what a snippy tone. In case mashabell is struggling? All I see is a row of question marks and no emoji.

I assume that is what mashabell saw and assumed you were expressing confusion.

Which is why I offered an explanation in case she was struggling with the symbols ??

But I do appreciate your double standards Roly

They don't show up as emojis on my browser either, mrz.

But then, I interpreted the '?'s as 'Oh for heaven's sake...[eye roll]'

I thought of that but decided to speak no evil and still get into trouble maizeD. ??