Does anyone know ...

[Amber in AUS]

are these the same books just printed by different companies?

http://www.amazon.com/Elson-Grammar-School-Readers-Books/dp/1103162357/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1238727858&sr=11-1

http://www.amazon.com/Elson-Readers-Book-1/dp/1890623156/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238728789&sr=1-6

I can't find an inside preview for the first book to try and make a comparison for myself. But it makes good purchasing sense for me being in Australia to buy the first one if they are one in the same. Can anyone help?

Thanks

[training5]

looks to me that the first is a compilation of 4 books in the same series. HTH!

[Alana in Canada]

The first book looks like it is a compilation--but of the books put out by Elson and Christine M. Keck. These are on Google Books as separate volumes. You can check them there.

I have a dickens of a time with Google Books--and it seems to me I can' t look inside them, but you may know better what to do--and you may have access from Australia. Honestly, I have no clue.

It does seem as if you can look inside the table of contents ( and I have done so--I coordinated a bunch of stuff from Lit2Go to put on discs based on them last year.) That's not really going to help you decide between them, though, is it?

http://books.google.com/books?id=K2UXAAAAIAAJ&dq=Elson+readers&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=2_1&pgis=1

The Readers were published over a series of years, of course, just like the McGuffey's. Some years are better than others, of course. As long as they pre-date "Dick and Jane" though, you should be getting something decent to read, based on phonics and not "sight" words.



The second link--to the individual readers are published by lost book classcs. It looks like they have wonderful support.
http://www.lcbcbooks.com/elson_readers.htm

[LadyAberlin]

Rainbow Resource sells the ones listed in your second link. There are TM's that go with those.

[Amber in AUS]

Hmm, OK. I was thinking that the first one might have been the set of 4 readers in 1 book not a compilation so making it a really good buy, but by the sounds of it, that isn't the case.

Not to worry I was going to go with the Lost Classics ones anyway but when I saw these others I thought I should check. Thanks.