Banana Sensei (Vol. 1)

Banana Sensei is a collaborative project between the author, Victoria Laguna, and her husband Alan. The 4 panelled stories are auto-biographical and illustrate life as an assistant language teacher (ALT) teaching in Japan. The family name Laguna is what the children recall as Banana Sensei in the story. A toucan living life lost in translation in his full-time job as an elementary school teacher.

This is Volume 1 of the comic series.

Victoria is a designer, educator, and mum based in Tokyo, Japan. Author of You Were Once and You Are My Sonshine, she wrote these picture books with her son Wren in mind.