Help us rebuild schools in Nepal

While schools are shut during the pandemic, we've started to publish our own quality books for kids to read at home.

Our goal is to support local Nepali authors and artists (including our own teachers!) to write, illustrate and publish original children's books in Nepali with culturally appropriate Nepali settings and characters. Our first three titles will be published in early 2021.

Our parter in Nepal, Kakshyalaya, has been distributing books to schools in the Kathmandu Valley that participate in our read-aloud training program. Lately, it has been hard pressed to find an adequate number of quality children's books.

We want to meet that need and demonstrate to publishers in Nepal that a conscientious team of writers, illustrators, editors and others can produce rewarding and engaging experiences for young readers. Kakshyalaya hopes to change the status quo in the local publishing industry that often views books as a vehicle to teach morals to children.

One of our books is about honey bees and how industrious they are. The text describes the various chores of the worker bees and repeats a refrain of “Oh wow! That's the hardworking honeybee.”

Here are some sample stanzas from the book:

Thank you for your support during this unusual and trying year!