Gail Ellis is Manager of the Young Learners Centre of the British Council in Paris, France. She is also a Special Lecturer in TESOL in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. Her main publications include Learning to Learn English, CUP, The Primary English Teachers Guide and The Storytelling Handbook, Penguin, The Snowman: The original storybook with activities for young learners of English, OUP, Were Kids in Britain and Pebbles Teachers Books, Longman.