Ransom publishing specialises in books and teaching resources for children learning to read. They publish one of the major phonics reading programmes used alongside phonics teaching programmes in the UK and they deliver phonics teaching materials to schools in conjuction with a literacy hub. Ransom are also well known for their books for reluctant and struggling readers, the programme of books they have built up over the year is both valued and loved by teachers, parents and librarians. But more important the books work for reluctant readers, some of whom have never finished a book before, let alone enjoyed the experience of reading.