Category: Reading and Literacy

  • The Open Dyslexic Font

    I recently came across the Open Dyslexic Font, which was created by by Abelardo Gonzalez. The font is weighted at the bottom so the gravity allows the letters to stay put on the line. When I found it, I’d just finished making my first Little Horrors book, The Swamp Man, available as an iBook on the…

  • Ipad or Android for your school?

    There is no contest. The ipad provides the best apps, books, (there is a kindle reader for iPad so it is a kindle too) and the best operating system by far. When I hear schools discussing the choice staffrooms, the same argument comes up, “Well, iPads are so expensive, and we can get so many…

  • Maurice Sendak’s Google

    My favourite author of all time, Maurice Sendak, would have been 85 today. Google are celebrating his life with an animation featuring Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. Go see – only today.