You can help transform reading in the developing world
There’s one thing that underscores everything we do at Worldreader: We want children in the developing world to fall in love with reading. We want them to discover books that ignite their passion, spark their imagination and unlock their potential. For one child, inspiration may come from stories about astronauts, while others may enjoy fables about tricky spiders or appreciate classics tales like Dracula or Great Expectations.
To offer kids a wide choice of international and regional titles, Worldreader international publishers include: Random House, Penguin, Egmont, HarperCollins Canada, RosettaBooks,Puffin, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, Hardie Grant, Crossway Publishing and Crux Publishing. Worldrear’s local African publishers include Smartline Ltd., Sub-Saharan Publishers, Longhorn, Storymoja, Moran Publishers, Jacaranda, Jomo Kenyatta Foundation and many others. When needed, we help publishers digitize their books. This helps them reach larger markets and enables our children and teachers to access their books.
Authors, including Michael Morpurgo, Meshack Asare, Cory Doctorow, Mary Pope Osborne, Daniel Pinkwater, Seth Godin, Jon Mertz, Kevin Rau, and Chika Unigwe, have also donated a selection of their books and stories to children in our program at no cost. And, we’re seeing a word-of-mouth movement happening in the author community to which we can only say: thank you!
Together, we’re transforming reading in the developing world, one e-book at a time. Let’s keep the momentum going.
Join us
We invite all authors and publishers to make a lasting contribution to literacy. Contact us to find out how you can help kids fall in love with reading by donating the use of your e-book or short story.
Browse the Worldreader Books
We make hundreds of African and international books available to the students and teachers in our programs.
❯ Browse all of Worldreader’s Books
Worldreader digitizes books from sub-Saharan African publishers and helps sell them on e-book sites like Amazon. In return, we provide their textbooks and storybooks to schools and organizations participating in our program.
Writers Changing Lives: A Chat with Hermés Piqué
Hermés Piqué
Kids love books. They love games, too. And they love books that feel like games, and games that feel like books.
First-hand feedback from teachers and students in our programs in Africa prove that last statement true.
Things like flash cards, spelling quizzes, world maps and anything else that complements the learning experience and gets kids engaged in reading is what kids and school officials told us they want more of in their classrooms.