From Review by John York in Piano magazine March/April 2007

“The Lushers’ Dogs and Birds books are for the very young beginner and come only in black and white, but they are generously adorned with pictures. They … [use animals] (D = dog, A = ant, E = egg-with-chick etc) … [and start] logically from D and actually depict the animal inside every note. … it’s a great pedagogical idea, and progress is much quicker than in the German tutor [the method is compared with]. Dogs and Birds has good street cred too, developing the European methods of Kodály. … it is definitely an important contribution in an area not over-endowed with good things.”