I was having a chat yesterday about new ways of learning English. One of the most popular requests was to have English Manga to learn from. Not necessarily in the American sense of “Manga” but in the Japanese meaning of a “comic”, even something simple like for kids.

Then it hit me that that’s basically what the Genki English picture books are! I’ve been calling them picture books but really they could easily be considered manga.

So I had a look again and although the flipping pages animation does look cool the first time, on an old computer it can be really slow. So on a couple of books I’ve taken it out and made the page change on a simple click. What do you think? For example I’ve just made the Easter Book like that ( with an improved ending!). Maybe it’s worthwhile doing them all like this?

Also, if you have a blog or website, please make a link to any of the picture book ( manga!) pages you like. The more people that link up, and hence the more visitors that come to the pages, the more free stuff I can put online!