Read with your baby and toddler!

These storybooks completely separate the text from the illustrations which encourages beginning learners to focus on the simple words of the story before appreciating the pictures of the story’s adventures.

About the author:

Dr. Amanda Stanford earned her PhD in English Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She has taught writing and English classes for seven years in the US, Mexico, Japan, and Egypt. Having taught toddlers in Japan (as well as her own daughter) to read, she is an active baby/toddler education advocate.

About the illustrator:

Kitty van Oosten is a self-taught illustrator and graphic novel artist, who obtained a degree in English Language, Literature and Culture from Leiden University before studying English Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. She currently teaches English at Tio University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. In her leisuretime she writes and illustrates fiction, and hopes to publish her first novel in the near future.