Good Stories Don’t Grow on Trees: a Guide to Effective Costing of Storybooks in the Global South

Early Literacy Resource Network 2019

This research aims to raise awareness of the various costs that go into producing and translating storybooks and of the relationship between investment and quality. It also serves to illustrate emerging business models for local organizations creating content using open licensing that funders and governments might wish to fund to support effective early literacy acquisition in developing countries.