Sorry if you were expecting more picture books today, I sort of got a little sidetracked… At some point I’m going to have to think about adding audio to the books. Narration is quite easy, but one of the reasons the Kids English books worked so well was that each page had its own music…

I’m on a bit of a roll with these picture books at the moment, have a look for new “How old are you?”, “Let’s build a house”, “How did you get here?” books. (CD Owners‘ Username required. When you make a comment, you’ll need to register again, but make sure you create a new &…

The Halloween Picture Book has been a huge success this week. So in the spirit of “things are better out there rather than stuck on my hard drive” I’m putting up lots of the new picture books in the “Discussion & Genki Community” section of the forum. A few of them are still in the…

Just spent the last week on a fact finding and sorting things out trip into Asia. Taiwan was cool, my first time there, and even though a lot of the country is still under developed, the central areas of Taipei seriously scream out “The Future!”. The whole sense of style in the buildings ( tallest…

Most of my energies over the last few years have been spread all over the country, from Hokkaido to Okinawa. But one place where I haven’t done much, outside of bookstore events, is in the capital Tokyo. So this week has been nice to have not one, but two workshops in real elementary schools. As…

It’s great being back into term time. Summer is cool in that the workshops are lots of fun, but it’s nice to get all the new ideas into action. One project I’m working on at the moment is a book of lesson plans for all the GE themes. All the content is on the site,…