Six entertaining, engaging, and educational stories - "Green-Fingers Granny"; "Am I an Octopus or an Ostrich?"; "Ultimo and His Unusual Umbrella"; "Lumba, the Lying Giant"; "Freddy and His Flip-flops"; and "Mr and Mrs Bubblepop" - aim to help children learn the third group of phonics: g, O/O, U, l, f, and b. Each story focuses on one sound and provides many words as examples for it to increase the child's vocabulary capacity for that targeted sound.

The targeted sounds have been clearly highlighted using different colours to attract the child's attention. This could increase the...