The Ant and Bee stories were a collection of small format hardback books produced in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s. They were reprinted by Trafalgar Square Publishing in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were designed to teach pre-school children about the alphabet

Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...

, shapes and colours. The author was Angela Banner.

The principal characters were Ant (the naughtier and more adventurous half of the duo) and Bee (more sensible and better behaved). On occasions they were joined by the Kind Dog and/or the zoo man. The primary lure of these books is that simple three and four-letter words are texted in red so children can associate the print with the pictures.

The Series

There were thirteen books in the series:

• Ant and Bee and the ABC
• Ant and Bee
• More Ant and Bee
• More and More Ant and Bee
• Ant and Bee and Kind Dog
• One, Two, Three With Ant and Bee
• Around the World With Ant and Bee
• Ant and Bee and the Rainbow
• Happy Birthday With Ant and Bee
• Ant and Bee Time
• Ant and Bee and the Secret
• Ant and Bee and the Doctor
• Ant and Bee Go Shopping

See also

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