Our Work
Pangea Publishing produces culturally, linguistically relevant reading materials with an early-grade focus. Our books are locally authored, illustrated, and produced in the communities they are read in.
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Our folklore readers were the first storybooks and are still making more today. We have collected over 1,000 stories since the beginning and have created 75 folklore storybooks to date.
The Big Idea:
Leveraging and valorizing cultural knowledge to write culturally relevant stories.
Outcome:
Familiar plots empower pre-literate family members to engage with their children's reading.
Benefits to Boot:
Preserving and documenting oral history in the process of creating stories.
We craft our original stories with local authors and illustrators with present-day life in mind. We make books to engage kids with characters, places, and ideas they can see themselves in let their imaginations run wild.
The Big Idea:
Make local, original stories relevant to issues kids experience now.
Intended Outcome:
Helping kids see themselves in books as they learn to read to increase engagement.
Benefits to Boot:
These are our most popular books with students!
Issue Books address these realities face-on where kids and their caretakers can explore and address them openly. For each Issue Book we partner our pedagogical expertise with subject matter experts to design impactful and useful lesson plans.
Issue books are made for children grades 4 and above. We do this to explore issues with depth of language and lean into issues at an age that is developmentally appropriate instead of only scratching the surface of them.
The Big Idea
Kids face difficult realities as much as adults do. We make books about common issues in children's lives.
The Outcome
Increased utility of reading beyond enjoyment, preparing children to utilize informational text beyond studying for summative assessments.
Benefits to Boot
Meaningful exploration of important, often unspoken topics including: public health, violence, gender, and more!
Over the past 5 years, we have used our publishing expertise to support a diverse range of organizations in Liberia, Nepal, Senegal, South Sudan, and Uganda. Partner with us to leverage storytelling and design for impact in your work.
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Right now, we primarily sell books in Uganda. See our full catalog available online. You can use filters to find the genre, level, and features of storybooks for your work.
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UNESCO-IBE and Harvard University published Learning to Build Back Better Futures For Education: Lessons from educational innovation during the covid-19 pandemic. Pangea Publishing's COVID learning series is featured in Chapter 13 contributing to the development of operational strategies for change in education during disruption.
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Pangea partnered with the Vice President's Office of the Republic of Liberia. What we learned about using storytelling to engage and safely return to school.
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