For journalists and media partners.
Company description, founder bio, brand assets, and contact. Reach out at coert@grammaropolis.com for interview requests or anything not listed here.
The 50-word description
Grammaropolis is a Houston-based educational IP company that teaches grammar through character. Twenty-six grammar characters live in a town where each one embodies their part of speech. Workbooks, storybooks, AI experiences, and standards alignment tools across four subdomains, all built around the same original insight.
The 150-word description
Grammaropolis was founded in 2010 by Coert Voorhees, a novelist and former seventh-grade writing teacher. The core insight, born from a December 2005 student writing assignment at Pinewood School in Los Altos Hills, California: parts of speech aren't easier to learn when they're metaphors for grammar; they're easier when they ARE grammar. Nelson the Noun runs the noun office because nouns are foundational. Jake the Adjective decorates everything because adjectives modify nouns. Roger the Pronoun can't function without Nelson because pronouns can't function without antecedents. The IP now spans eight original storybooks, an eight-album music video catalog with 10M+ YouTube views, a subscription education app, twenty-one workbook titles aligned to four state and national standards frameworks, and a growing AI-powered experiences line.
Founder bio
Coert Voorhees is the founder of Grammaropolis. He published three young-adult novels (The Brothers Torres, Lockdown, and The Plus-One) before turning his attention full-time to educational publishing. He lives in Houston with his wife Molly, who runs her own Houston-based artisan chocolate company, and their two children.
What people have said
Press, parents, kids. Verbatim quotes from the legacy site and partner reviews.
"Move over, Schoolhouse Rock."
"The linguistic insights are pure gold."
"Learning grammar has never been so much fun."
"Effective and Entertaining."
"Like Grammar Rock and the Mr. Men books had an adorable love child. It's a whole gang of parts of speech for a new generation of language nerds, and the best part is that their personalities not only keep it fun, but make it all easier to learn."
★★★★★
"These videos are way better than the boring worksheets we do at school."
For interview availability or fresh quotes, write to coert@grammaropolis.com.
Brand assets
For logo files, character art, founder headshot, and the full press kit PDF: grammaropolis.com/downloads/presskit/ (link goes live with the Phase 1 deploy).
Contact
Press inquiries: coert@grammaropolis.com
Location: Houston, Texas