I don’t know if you’ll post this as it’s not a teen book, but your readers are so intrepid I wondered if they could help me solve this mystery! Thank you!
This is not a book but the series we used in kindergarten (1983) to learn how to read. From what I remember we would receive a new “magazine” every week focusing on a different letter. The color tones were beige and peach. The characters running through the series was a group of kids and there was a dog too. The group had a hippy-ish vibe and there was a school bus that they had kind of repurposed, possibly as a club house. The front of the “magazine” would feature the given letter very prominently and possibly a character, like I remember the O and Q had one of the kids or the dog in the letter itself.
I have spent years searching for this unsuccessfully and my kindergarten teacher is no longer living. It wasn’t the Magic School Bus which is what people inevitably think it is when posing this. (Remember, this was 1983!). It’s very possibly that over time I’ve misremembered this & maybe it doesn’t even exist?
Solved! The Meet The Superkids series
I think that was the SuperKids series. We used it in kindergarten in 1984-1985. The O character was Oswald.
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OMG this might seriously be it!!! Going deep into this rabbit hole over the weekend. I haven’t actually laid eyes on these since 1985 and I’m thinking I’ve embellished or reinvented the images slightly in my mind, but yet there is a striking familiarity and then I saw the Mrs. Blossom character and my brain is zinging. Bless you!!!!
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