Who started it all?

My name is Daniela Petrinova and I am from Prague, Czech Republic. My husband and I have 4 children. I have always loved foreign languages and enjoyed traveling. In my youth, I studied German and French intensively, and then later on I began to learn English. I attended several language courses and tried out a variety of language learning methods.

When I began thinking about how to effectively teach our own children English, I had a vision of a comic book about a large family, and this idea never left my mind. Thanks to my great team members, my originally modest idea gradually transformed into the Kid Family English app and, two years later, into The Kid Family Story, a printed comic book complemented with audio lesson.

Who has joined my team?

All the pictures have been lovingly and enthusiastically drawn by illustrator Mirka Harnuskova, a mom of two children and wife of an artist with whom she forms a great creative team.

Mirka draws pictures and her husband Mario converts the Kid family into digital form, colors the hand-drawn images and often adds interesting ideas to the pictures.

The voice tracks have been narrated and texts corrected by native U.S. speakers living in Prague – Jane, Jenny, Carolyn, Dave, Rebekah and others.

The mobile app has been created and images put to life by a team of skillful programmers from Pilsen.

The final form of the printed comic book and PDF worksheets has been created by photographer and graphic designer Daniel Petrina.

The voice tracks have been narrated and texts corrected by native U.S. speakers living in Prague – Jane, Jenny, Carolyn, Dave, Rebekah and others.

The mobile app has been created and images put to life by a team of skillful programmers from Pilsen.

The final form of the printed comic book and PDF worksheets has been created by photographer and graphic designer Daniel Petrina.

Our children have also contributed a lot to the creation of the app and the book. They were an inspiration, motivation and gradually more and more help. Our daughter Vendy composed and recorded the jingle for the app. Lately, I regularly go to Naty and her tablet when I need to edit a picture.

My greatest thanks though go to my husband, thanks to whom I was able to carry out the entire Kid family project.

I believe that Kid Family English will help you, your children, and your students on the adventurous journey to better English.

Daniela Petrinova