Book reviewed in this article:Carver, R.P. (1981)Reading Comprehension and Reading Theory.Crowder, R.G. (1982)The Psychology of Reading: an Introduction.Downing, J.&Leong, C.K. (1981)Psychology of Reading.Henderson, L. (1982)Orthography and Word Recognition in Reading.Kolers, P.A., Wrolstad, M.&Bouma, H. (Ed.) (1979)Processing of Visible Language 1.Kolers, P.A., Wrolstad, M.&Bouma, H. (Ed.) (1980)Processing of visible Language 2.Lesgold, A.M.&Perfetti, C.A. (Ed.) (1981)Interactive Processes in Reading.Mitchell, D.C. (1982)The Process of Reading: a Cognitive Analysis of Fluent Reading and Learning to Read.Ewing, J. and Johnstone, M. (1981)Attitudes to Reading: Measurement and Classification within a Curricular Structure.Heather, P. (1981)Young People's Reading: a study of the leisure reading of 13‐15 year olds.Clay, Marie M. (1982)Observing Young Readers: Selected Papers.Ferreiro, Emilia and Teberosky, Ana (1982/3)Literacy Before Schooling.Spender, L. (1983)Intruders on the Rights of Men: Women's Unpublished Heritage.Sheridan, E. Marcia (Ed.) (1982)Sex Stereotypes and Reading: Research and Strategies.Posner, Roland (1982)Rational Discourse and Poetic Communication: Methods of Linguistic, Literary, and Philosophical Analysis.Prince, Gerald (1982)Narratology: The Form and Functioning of Narrative.Sharratt, Bernard (1981)Reading Relations: Structures of Literary Production. A Dialectical Text/Book.Tompkins, Jane P. (Ed.) (1981)Reader‐Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post‐Structuralism.Widdowson, Peter (Ed.) (1982)Re‐Reading English.Cressy, D. (1980)Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England.Eisenstein, E.L. (1982)The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early‐modern Europe.Furet, F. and Ozouf, J. (1982)Reading and Writing: Literacy in France from Calvin to Jules Ferry.Mann, P.H. (1982)From Author to Reader: a Social Study of Books.Morris, R.C. (1981)Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction: the Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861‐1870.Gollasch, F.V. (Ed.) (1982)Language and Literacy: the Selected Writings of Kenneth S. Goodman. Volume I: Process, Theory, Research. Volume 2: Reading, Language and the Classroom Teacher.Miles, T.R. (1983)Dyslexia: The Pattern of Difficulties.Singer, M.H. (Ed.) (1982)Competent Reader, Disabled Reader: Research and Application.Malatesha, R.N. and Aaron, P.G. (Ed.) (1982)Reading Disorders: Varieties and