A is for Banana
About
A is for Banana is an educational brand based in Hull that makes books, learning cards and activity zines designed to get young children thinking creatively. Its starting point is a statistic: by age five, ninety percent of children say A is for apple, and the brand sets out to question that norm. Products merge minimalist graphic design with cognitive developmental neuroscience, and the cards are designed to look good enough that families leave them out instead of putting them away.
Founder Tricia Striano, PhD, is an award-winning scientist who has written more than 150 research papers on infant social cognitive neuroscience and is frequently called on to lecture around the world. The cards are credited to a team of an award-winning developmental scientist and an illustrator, and parents quoted on the site describe reading A is for Banana nightly and giving it to other families. A limited-edition zine, Bingo Gets Her ZZZs, asks children to fold and cut their own mini book to build spatial thinking and early reading skills.
What to Know
- Products are eco-printed in the USA using windmill energy and vegetable-based inks.
- Striano received the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
- The Bingo zine was printed in a run of only 100 copies and has sold out.
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