For Parents
Support Your Child's Learning at Home
Discover easy-to-use tools and instructional guides that help you help your children learn to read while building emotional intelligence.
Learning Starts with the Child.
Research-backed, heart-centered materials that build literacy and social-emotional learning from the inside out.
Empathy Is a Skill. We Help You Teach It.
Our resources help children understand themselves, connect with others, and engage with their world through curiosity and expression.
Quality Resources Belong to Everyone.
Education is a public good, not a privilege. Everything we do is designed to broaden access to exceptional educational materials.
Built by Educators. Shared Fairly.
Our profit-sharing model ensures every creator, educator, and contributor is fairly compensated for the work they bring to you.
Every Purchase Plants a Seed.
Your purchase directly funds curriculum donations to underserved communities — expanding what's possible for children everywhere.
HBL is more than a store—it's a social engine
Heart Bright Learning is more than a store — it's a new kind of publishing model. As a Service Publisher, we believe that our first obligation is to the people we serve: the educators, parents, and children who use our resources every day. There are no outside investors to answer to, no corporate executives to pay. Every dollar we earn goes back to the people who create, refine, and deliver our work — and to the communities who need it most.
Who We Are
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Rooted in Experience
A team with over a century of combined educational experience, supporting children to love learning through lessons that meet them where they are.
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Created to Inspire Curiosity
Compassionate resources rooted in research help children grow into excited, expressive, and expansive learners.
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Driven by Impact, Not Investors
Mission-led and market-powered — sales sustain impact, independence, and ongoing donations to underserved communities, without relying on outside funding.
Designed for Children, Optimized for Parents and Educators
For Parents
For Educators
Learning That Moves With Your Students
Our early literacy and SEL programs give teachers the tools to weave observation, curiosity, and expression into everyday learning — so children grow as readers and as people.
Resources That Help Children Grow — as Readers and as People
At Heart Bright Learning, we create resources that help children discover the joy of reading, and poems and stories that help them explore their world and discover themselves.
- Early literacy materials give young readers a strong, joyful foundation
- SEL fable series helps children find words for what they feel
Meet Our Team
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Jon Madian
Prolific writer who has authored numerous children’s books and curriculum resources featured by Scholastic, Apple and others. Founded and led the Los Angeles’ Artist-in-Residence Reading Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and various foundations.
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Karen Jostad-Madian
Karen Jostad-Madian led instructional design teams in developing award-winning K–12 educational software. She has served as an adjunct professor at multiple colleges and has trained resource managers in public land use for environmental education.
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Julie Anne Ikenberry
A tricultural educator, writer, and illustrator raised in Kenya and England. Trained in theater and Montessori. Founded and led multiple schools in the United States. Dedicated her career to Montessori education.
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Jyoti Kumta
Has varied experience in teaching and school counseling and realized the acute need for Values Education and Social Emotional Learning in schools. She is devoted to integrating these principles into school curricula.
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Paritosh Chhibber
Founded Levelworks and brings a background in User and Service Experience Design along with Psychology. Deeply committed to education and job creation. Collaborates with organizations that value and celebrate lifelong learning.
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Antonia Madian
A writer, editor, and communications specialist. Believes in the power of student-
led learning and the importance of fostering emotional intelligence in children from an early age. -
Stephania Menezes
Founder of Joy-Filled Kids and an experiential facilitator advocating for children's right to play. Guides intentional parenting and creates play spaces to nurture resilient, self-aware, and nature-connected children and teens.
Featured Products
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Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read - Bundle
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Poetry For Phonics & Fluency - Set 1
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Let Your Feelings Flow
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Let Your Feelings Flow
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SEL Collection
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Social Emotional Learning Fables (Collection 1)
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I Am Not Brave - Bundle
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Don't Rush The River - Bundle
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Rabbit Learns Skunk is Sincere - Bundle
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Ignite a Heart
Spark a lifelong love of learning by gifting a book to a child today. When you purchase
our learning resources at full price, you help place thoughtful and engaging stories in the hands of young readers around the world, seeding learning, connection, and long- lasting curiosity.
One book. One child. One spark that could last a lifetime.
What Parents and Teachers Are Saying
Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read lifts early literacy from memorization into a sky high journey of discovery. You will love how this approach makes unlocking the reading code delightful for you and your students.
Poetry for Fluency playfully builds natural scaffolds to show children how the code works. It gives kids the thrills of learning to read by exploring good writing.
The work that Heart Bright Learning is doing to support a balanced approach to reading has helped me understand how the fundamental elements of reading work together, with and beyond phonics.
Tortoise Teaches Rabbit to Read uses a structured story to help early readers discover the sounds in words. It is a program well worth exploring for early readers.