What We Do
Curiosity-led STEM stories that turn how the world works into something children can hold in their hands.
Each book follows our characters as they explore a real subject and discover that everyday world is far more extraordinary than it looks.
What Our Books Are
Our books take a real subject and turn it into a STEM adventure for children aged up to 12. For example, how energy moves, how the ocean lives or how a city works. Not a textbook, not a lesson dressed up as a story: a genuine story, where curiosity is the engine and children discover the answers by themselves alongside the characters.
Worldwide Books Availability
Our Approach to Education
Most children's books about how the world works rely on someone explaining it; a narrator, a teacher, a helpful adult with the answers. We do the opposite. We turn the world inside out.
Our characters, Sofia, Viktor and Mr. Tie, don't get told how a battery works, or how the ocean lives. They go inside. They shrink down, dive in, and follow the thing until they understand it themselves. The reader discovers it right alongside them - not as a lesson, but as an adventure they are in the middle of.
This is education that starts with wonder, not with definitions. And it is designed to create lasting, positive impact on how the next generation understands the world around them.
How Our Books Are Made
The Curious Crew retains full editorial ownership of every book. Topics are selected on educational merit, and each story is writen, illustrated and produced by our team and creative network. Where a book's subject falls within a company's field of expertise, that company may support its development and is accredited accordingly. Editorial control is never transferred. Partners provide funding and, where helpful, factual review within their domain - but the story, characters and its message remain entirely ours. Our books are created to inform and inspire, not to advertise.
Meet the Characters
Every great adventure needs great characters. Ours guide children through wonder, questions, and discovery.
“Absolutely, Viktor. Curiosity is the first step – building it is what makes it real!”
Mr. Tie
A wise and playful mentor who turns wonder into understanding
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Viktor
An inventive boy who loves building and experimenting
“Mr. Tie, why do we actually need to sleep every night?”
Sofia
A curious girl who never stops asking “why?”
More Than Print
Every Book Carries Its Own Digital World
Inside every book is a QR code, and it is the only way in. It opens a web app and audiobook built for that specific title - not a generic platform, but a digital companion made for the story a child has just read. This is what makes each book adaptable long after it is printed.
Engaging beyond the page
Interactive experiments, quizzes and an audiobook turn a story children have just read into something they can play with, test and hear again. The book starts the curiosity; the app gives it somewhere to go.
Flexible by application
The printed book stays identical for every reader. The digital layer is what changes, so one title can serve a national curriculum, a museum programme, a school project or a company's own community without ever rewriting the story.
Built to your documentation needs
Teacher packs, educational guides, lesson plans, worksheets and reporting material can be developed alongside the book in whatever format a company, school or institution actually needs.
Global Reach
How Our Books Reach Children
We do not sell books from our own website. They travel three ways: onto bookstore shelves worldwide, directly to organisations ordering in volume, and into classrooms across Europe through our partner network.
In bookstores worldwide
Our titles are carried by bookstores across three continents, from Kyobo in South Korea to Barnes & Noble in the United States to Waterstones and Hugendubel across Europe. Online and on the shelf, wherever families already buy books.
Bulk orders delivered directly
For orders of 100 books or more we deliver ourselves, handling schools, companies, bookstores and pilot programmes directly - including mixed-language orders and delivery to multiple sites.
Into classrooms across Europe
Beyond retail, our partner network carries books into schools Europe-wide through piloting, dissemination and outreach - reaching children where they learn, not only where their families shop.