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One of my first full-size colour picture books was Down By The Cool Of The Pool. It was first published in 2001. When it was a fully fledged book, some time later, and I showed it to a senior editor in picture books at a major publishing house, she read it and said, “That’s a perfect picture book text.” However, its story is all but smooth and fluent.

Storybooks are a good way to approach topics and introduce vocabulary with young learners. I’ve detailed a few general tips to consider when using a storybook in class. I’ve then used an example of one of my favourite books ‘Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book’ and given ideas on how you could best exploit it with your young learners.

Graded readers or ‘readers' are books that have had the language level simplified to help second language learners read them.

In this article I would like to highlight the value of using story books in a Young Learner classroom. I will look at its strengths and benefits in terms of language acquisition as well as promoting socio-cultural understanding.

Food is a popular topic in any primary course and has a lot of potential for cross-curricular work.

In this extract, Brian Tomlinson looks at why we should be creative with our coursebook and suggests some interesting ideas for teachers to experiment with in class.