As its name suggests, the Good Reading company was primarily concerned with book publishing. In 1974, however, it earned a place for itself on this site by issuing a series of items for children, each containing a simple board game and a 7" EP featuring a short story written by Betty Root. The story came in three different forms: with 'musical punctuation', with 'music and sound description', and without music. A fourth track offered just the music and the sound description. Narration was provided by Derek Bowskill. Interestingly the musical content - in the form of short illustrative pieces on concertina (?) and percussion - was supplied by Ron Geesin, whose name was spelled wrongly on the labels and the sleeves. The records and the game were packaged in a gatefold 12" sleeve, which had the illistrated story in the centre; there seem to have been just four of them. Catalogue numbers were in an ME-0 series, and the labels came in various colours.
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