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About Us

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

Our Author Joanne Leyland

illustration showing a child learning a foreign language

From an early age author Joanne Leyland loved learning languages.  She now speaks 5 languages.  The foreign languages she speaks are French, Spanish, German and Italian and her native language is English.   Joanne is a qualified teacher with over 20 years experience in teaching languages to children.  Whenever she writes a new book she hopes to inspire other children to enjoy learning languages as much as she has.


The first book Joanne wrote for children learning German was the first book in the range Cool Kids Speak German.  She has since gone on to write a whole range of activity books, colouring books and games for children learning German.  The principal behind these books is "Let's make learning German fun".   German is a very useful language to learn as there are about 95 million native German speakers in the world.  It's also useful to know some German if you go on holiday to Germany, Austria or the German speaking part of Switzerland.

Joanne has enjoyed travelling around Germany, Austria and Switzerland.   Joanne has found the public transport to be very good in these three countries, making it easy to travel and explore.  Her favourite city in Germany is Berlin.  The German food she particularly enjoys eating when in Germany is a Pork Schnitzel (The pork is covered in breadcrumbs and then fried) and Bratwurst (a German sausage).   And as a treat she also likes two typical desserts which are both made with apples:  Apfelkuchen (apple cake) and Apfelstruddel (an apple pastry).  Although the Apfelstruddel is popular in Germany it is originally from Austria.  The last time Joanne went to Austria she visited Zell am See and Salzburg, and she likes both places very much.  Joanne hasn't yet visited Vienna (the capital of Austria) but it is on the list of places she would like to visit one day.   Another country Joanne likes is Switzerland.  In the German speaking part of Switzerland her favourite city is Luzern as she has very fond memories of visiting there with her family as a child.   Luzern is well worth a visit as it is a city with beautiful architecture and it has a stunning location as it is situated on the edge of lake Luzern and has snow capped mountains in the distance.

Interested in teaching or learning another language?



For information about teaching or learning French go to: https://funfrenchforkids.com


For information about teaching or learning Spanish go to: https://funspanishforkids.com


For information about teaching or learning Italian go to: https://funitalianforkids.com




Let's make learning languages fun!