The closest thing in English is Tesuji by James Davies (http://senseis.xmp.net/?TesujiTheBook). It already presumes that you know a bit about Go, though (the very simplest tactics are taken for granted).

Also Cho Chikun's All About Life and Death and Fujisawa's Dictionary of Basic Tesuji.

I highly recommend Kageyama's Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go. It does a great job explaining, with problems, the foundations necessary to become a decent go player. It is better than any other book I have seen on the subject.

The other recommendations are good, but I think they're higher level than this. The Graded Go Problems series (in this case the "For Beginners" books) are good and cover a lot of the basic tactics.

Lessons In The Fundamentals Of Go is probably worth reading when you reach your first "plateau" (stop improving despite regular play and problems).