What We Do
We work with companies, foundations and institutions to bring real subjects to life for children through curiosity-led books made to inform and inspire, never to promote.
Our Approach
How We Work and Where Partners Fit
Children learning by discovery rather than instruction isn't new - it's one of the oldest ideas in education. What's ours is the way we do it: our characters shrink down and go inside a subject - a battery, the ocean, a city - and the reader figures out how it works alongside them because they're in the adventure too. That is the Curious Crew way of making a book, and it's the same in every book we make.
Where a book explores a technical subject, there is one thing an expert partner can genuinely add: making sure the world our characters explore is accurate. An engineer who knows batteries. A scientist who knows the ocean. That is where working with us begins - not in shaping how the story is told, but in making sure what's inside is true.
Every book carries the Curious Crew's methodology and voice.
What can change is who the book is for and where it can go - detailed in our two partnership models below.
Curriculum Books
Independent, curriculum-aligned titles on subjects that matter for children to understand. The topic is chosen on educational merit. A partner in the relevant field supports the book and is credited for it, but does not shape the narrative or receive promotional consideration within the content.
Built for
CSR and sustainability teams, public affairs, foundations
Where the curriculum pathway is part of the engagement, these books can reach classrooms across Europe and be sold in major bookshops worldwide. Made to inform and inspire, never to promote.
Commissioned Books
A bespoke book created for your company's own use; a story within your field, made for the people and communities closest to you: employee families, client gifts, your own events and channels. A company book made for the company's own use and not distributed through schools.
Built for
HR and employer branding, internal communications, CSR teams
Same characters, same curiosity-led storytelling, same production quality as our curriculum books created specifically as a lasting gift from your company to its community. Honest about what it is, and made to keep.
What's Included
Every book partnership includes:
Core Deliverable
A custom children's book
Fully illustrated, professionally written, print-ready and digitally available. Curiosity-led STEM content exploring a subject within your field.
A discreet partner credit
Your support recognised on the book's opening pages. Clear and elegant, but never inside the story itself.
Global distribution
The book enters our international distribution network, reaching bookstores across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Classroom reach for curriculum books
Through our collaborations on a European level, curriculum books could be distributed into school systems across Europe.
Multilingual editions
Any language your markets require.
Premium gift packaging
Employee families, client gifts, events.
Additional content
Worksheets, parent guides, live workshops.
Reach Overview
A summary of how and where the book is being shared: countries, languages, distribution channels, and where it has entered classrooms.
Dedicated acknowledgement page
Recognising your partnership and support.
How It Works
Discovery
We learn about your brand, your values and align on the story we want to tell together.
Manuscript & Design
Our team develops a beautifully illustrated book concept, including the manuscript and design elements.
Pilot (optional)
The book is piloted directly in European schools with real teacher and student feedback collected.
Publish & Distribute
The finished book reaches classrooms, your own venues and events, and can be listed in major global bookstores just like The Curious Crew Explores Sleep.
Why Partner With Us
A curiosity-led book is not a campaign. It is a lasting, tangible thing and that changes what it can do.
Where curiosity meets industry
Real science. Real wonder.
Not sure which fits?
If you want to contribute something genuinely educational to children broadly; a book chosen on its own merits, that can reach classrooms and bookshops - a curriculum book is the fit. If you want to share your company's own world with the people closest to you, your employees' families, your community - a commissioned book is the fit. Many partners aren't sure at first. Most conversations start there, and we help you find the right shape.
Who We Work With
We are currently in advanced stages of partnership with international industry leaders across energy, aviation, technology, supply chain and manufacturing.
Our curiosity-led digital education platform is being developed with the vision of spreading our content through school systems across the continent, supported by collaborations at a European level.