Welcome to Little Learners!

+ March 13, 2012 by Sarah Flynn

Sharing books with your little one is such an important and enjoyable experience for both children and parents. At Parragon, we wanted to support this bonding experience with a view to the child’s mind. How will a baby interact with each book in a series, and how do we make sure that parents understand a child’s learning process through a book? From this question, Little Learners (Little Me, in Australia) was born, bringing to life a series of colourful and contemporary characters for kids and parents to play along with.

 Each book in the series focuses on a different level of child development during children’s most crucial learning stages, encouraging education and interactive play between parent and baby—anytime, anywhere. The books take on a variety of fun formats including snuggly cloth books, stroller books, “slide and see” play, bath books, and finger puppets; topics range from colors and numbers to animals, food, and sharing, taking every moment as an opportunity to learn along with beautifully illustrated characters.

Developed in conjunction with educational consultants, Little Learners / Little Me also aims to make key learning concepts easy for parents. With icons on each book indicating its learning functions – including interactive play, hand-eye coordination, language development, first words, knowledge about the world, listening skills, and sense of touch – parents can rest easy knowing that their babies are engaging with the world around them in a meaningful way.

The Little Learners range has been extensively tested by focus groups of real mothers, all of whom loved the unique, playful nature of the books. Said one mother: “Little Learners have depth to them, they are perfect for babies but have things for them to grow into as well, like concepts around texture and size.”

We're really excited to bring Little Learners / Little Me to families across the world and books into the lives of babies everywhere!

Parragon Announces Marvel Comics License!

+ February 6, 2012 by Sarah Flynn

Parragon’s action-packed 2012 is set to kick off with a brand new license from Marvel Comics! We’re very pleased to be releasing over 100 Marvel titles this year across North America, Latin America, Germany, and the U.K.

The first releases will debut in April and include The Amazing Spider-Man: Web of Secrets and Marvel Super Heroes: Super Hero Secrets. Featuring super hero profiles, cool codes, daring deeds, and top secret stuff, these fun activity books make the ideal afternoon playmate for kids. Future titles in the Marvel range from Parragon will include a wide array of colouring and activity books.

For more information on the Marvel license, check out this article in Publisher’s Weekly!

Welcome to the new Parragon.com!

+ December 5, 2011 by Sarah Flynn

It’s been a long time coming, and we are so pleased you’re finally here: Parragon.com is new and improved! We have more individual book listings, better search functionality, and new blogs, news, and jobs sections to help you find what you’re looking for.

Who do we think “you” are? You might be a retailer looking for information on our new releases. Maybe you’re a customer looking for a title you read about on a blog or saw in a store. You could be a blogger searching for new releases to review, or a foodie hoping to find some new recipes, or a new mom wanting the best books for your little learner. What if you’re an aspiring author looking for insight into how our books come to life?

For all of you, we are here to help. Parragon has come a long way as a company from its beginnings in the late 1980s supplying value books to UK supermarket chains. We began as a non-traditional publisher, and that path has enabled us to think about books in new ways. Now, we’re a global company with a focus on marrying budget-concious pricing with better-quality books, dedicated to bringing you cookbooks, children’s books, licensed content, and adult titles ranging from reference encyclopedias to puzzles and games. You’ll find a range of our titles available in the iBookstore, on the Nook, in iPad app form, and soon to be in a range of other electronic formats. We’re growing, and we’re very excited about it.

As part of that growth, we invite you to browse the site and to return regularly to read our blog, where we’ll be looking inside some of our new and upcoming titles, chatting with Parragon employees about their jobs and the making of books, inviting guest bloggers to share things such as recipes and tips on child development, and sharing thoughts on a variety of topics in the publishing world and all around us. Whether you’re a buyer, a consumer, a blogger, or you landed here via Google search, welcome. Stay a while. And please feel free to let us know what you think.

Best,
Your Friends at Parragon Books