Moonlight Publishing

Oxfordshire

We are an independent, family-run company, founded in 1980, to create illustrated information books for young children, aged 5 to 9. The success of our books lies in their ability to captivate children’s imagination and hold their attention through the quality of the artwork and design, and the clarity of the text.

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Our books are all about discovery. They help children understand how things work, why the world is as it is, and why people and things interact in everyday life as they do. Through outstanding illustration and excellent design, accompanied by simple and clear texts, and engaging audio content, we set out to capture the imagination of our young readers so that they become fascinated by what they discover and want to find out more. Our best-selling series, My First Discoveries, has sold over 10 million copies in English language. The combination of transparent overlay pages, captivating illustration and design features and audio content make this series uniquely suited as a vehicle for young learners aged 4 to 6 to develop their English language skills whilst setting the foundations for successful learning in Science, Geography, History and Art.

Audio and language content
Since 2017 we have made the audio narration of the text and additional audio content available through talking pen technology. There were produced for specific country markets in South East Asia and sold in box sets running to 50 titles in total in China, Taiwan and Korea. From 2023, we have made the audio content for all our new titles available to our readers free of charge via the Moonlight Audio App. We have also just published
My First Discovery Paperbacks in Box Sets of 10 titles with the audio content available through the audio app.
Our markets
Although we continue to sell in countries where English is the first spoken language (in Australia, Ireland, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK and the US), our fasting growing markets are those where English is learnt from an early age as a second or third language, primarily in South East Asia.
We have longstanding distribution partnerships in Korea, Taiwan and China, where we have sold over 700k units in the last 6 years. More recently, we have seen rapid growth in sales in Indonesia building partnerships with online booksellers and influencers.
We are now looking to build similar partnerships in Australia, Europe, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam, both through e-commerce and other social media platforms and more traditional distributors and publishers who wish to place stock or co-edition orders for our titles.