Teach Your Monster to Read is a series of 3 award winning online reading games created by the wonderful Peter Usborne’s The Usborne Foundation, the non profit side of his publishing company Usborne Publishing. The games are designed to complement phonics programmes used in schools and have helped over 30 million children worldwide develop their reading skills during early years education. Kids get to create their own monsters and guide them on a magical journey through various bright and playful environments as they progress across the reading levels of the three games. I joined the Monster team halfway through game 1, and became the sole designer and animator for games 2 & 3.

The games were nominated for a BAFTA in 2013 and 2015.

Teach Your Monster to Read was produced by the excellent Cambridge based software developers Popleaf.

Here is a selection of character and environment designs I provided for the second game - Fun with Words.