Stories, activities and information created by specialists
Being a children’s publisher means creating materials that are nourishing and appropriate for children. To do this, we work with a variety of professionals: graphic designers, comic book writers, illustrators, authors, photographers… It takes 4 to 6 months to create each issue with great attention placed on what content the children will read, and whether it is easy to understand and learn from.
Feedback from more than 4,500 children each year
We are constantly engaging our audience for feedback through direct engagement with school groups, storytelling sessions, and product testing sessions. Each story published is tested with children thanks to our partnerships with schools.
Reliable quality control
On a daily basis, Bayard writers consult specialists to ensure the high quality of our products: child psychiatrists, scientists, historians, botanists, palaeontologists, doctors ... willingly participate in the delicate work of making difficult subjects understandable for children. Many teachers use our magazines in class because they find the information trustworthy and reliable.
Value for money
At the end of the day, our passion is to help parents raise kids who love to read. To ensure that your child receives that special package in the mail with their name on the label, we’re happy to accommodate a change of magazine or change of address at any time during your subscription.
Award-winning children magazines
Bayard Presse is an international publisher of educational children’s magazines with over 150 years of history. We aim to help fulfill parents’ desires to share human values with their children. Our publications offer opportunities to nurture creativity and independent thinking, all the while weaving parents and caregivers into the lifelong journey of learning. We take great pride in the fact that so many families choose Bayard’s publications for their children and we work hard to deserve their ongoing trust. Our editorial teams work constantly to update our current publications, and invent new ones to meet to the needs of today’s readers, responding to the interests of new generations growing up in a fast-changing world. Through each one of our publications and productions, we seek to uphold a single mission: to help young people to grow up understanding the fascinating world they live in, and encourage them to face the challenges of the future with…
Our Story
1883
Bayard Presse launches its first publication in France, La Croix Newspaper. In the spirit of Maria Montessori, Bayard creates its first newspaper for children later in 1966. Creating a newspaper for children who could not yet read was a daring bet! But directly inspired by these new pedagogies and the soft and intimate relationship between child and parent, this magazine that we read with the little one our lap quickly meets extraordinary success.
1996
With 30 years of experience in creating impactful and engaging material for children, Bayard creates its first issues of StoryBox, AdventureBox and DiscoveryBox. At first, the concept of a subscription publication for children was new and foreign in the United Kingdom. It took persistence and passion to share with parents and educators the value of receiving a perfectly sized portion of learning in the mailbox on a regular basis.
2017
The Box Magazines are 30 years old! Having grown alongside its readers, Bayard celebrates the first generation of parents to share their childhood experiences with their little ones. The chinese magazines Red Apple has also celebrate its 40 years birthday! The series offers unparalleled legibility and reading comfort, which have been its success and trademark.
2019
Bayard introduces a new member of the Box Magazines - AdventureBox MAX! For readers that want to stay in the realm of leisure fiction a little longer, AdventureBox MAX! enriches the Box Magazine reading journey with a little more action, drama, and suspense. Bayard has also introduced a new formula for Little Red Panda, to make it more coherent with the local STEM curriculum.
The World of Bayard
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think”
– Margaret Mead
Honors and Awards
StoryBox
Parents Choice Award Gold Award Winner 2020
AdventureBox
AdventureBox Max!
Parents Choice Award Recommended Award Winner 2020
DiscoveryBox
Parents Choice Award Gold Award Winner 2020
