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About us

Happy children drawing as they learn Italian

The Cool Kids Group is located in the North West of England and publishes the fantastic books by author Joanne Leyland.

Our Author Joanne Leyland

Joanne Leyland is a qualified teacher with over 20 years experience in teaching foreign languages to children.   Joanne has also written a wide range of books for children learning Italian, French, Spanish, German or English as a foreign language.   The first book she wrote was the first book in the series Cool Kids Speak Italian.  Since then she has gone on to write all kinds of books, from activity books and colouring books to games and stories.   The principal behind her books in the Italian range is "Let's make learning Italian fun".   She enjoys using her creativity to help children learn Italian and believes that children learn more when they are having fun as they learn.


Joanne has travelled a lot around Italy, and her favourite Italian city is Rome.   The thing she likes most about Rome is that there are so many historic places to visit and it's easy to get about the city either on foot or on public transport.  Another holiday destination Joanne likes is Lake Garda, and one day she would like to visit Lake Como because she has heard that Lake Como is very beautiful too.  Whenever Joanne is in Italy she particularly enjoys eating pizza and pasta as Joanne, like many other people, finds that these often taste so much better in Italy.   Some people say the pizzas and pasta dishes taste better in Italy because they use fresh ingredients.  Joanne also wonders if the pizzas and pastas taste better in Italy because of the flour that is used to make them.   There is a section on pizzas and pizza toppings in Cool Kids Speak Italian - Book 1, and in her book On Holiday In Italy Cool Kids Speak Italian there is a section on typical Italian food.   Another thing Joanne enjoys eating on a nice sunny day when she is in Italy is un gelato - that's an ice cream in Italian!  The topic of ice creams and ice cream flavours is covered in her books Cool Kids Speak Italian - Book 2 and On Holiday In Italy Cool Kids Speak Italian.   

Italian class for children.  Learning Italian is fun

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Let's make learning languages fun!