Welcome to Gardner Media
Devoted to Young Children, Early Stages of Development, and Family-Engaged Learning
Our Partners
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The Garden Learning & Play
ExploreThe Garden Learning and Play brings inclusive books & games to market that engage both the child and the parent, helping each to discover how the child best learns. We believe books can be an indelible aid to every stage of a child's early development.
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Child's Play
ExploreChild's Play creates innovative, award-winning books for children that promote learning through play. Child's Play books fully reflect our diverse society in terms of heritage, disability, gender, and family. Loved by parents, teachers, and, most importantly, children.
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Cumulus Collections
ExploreCumulus Collections sources, prices, and delivers custom book sets directly to early childhood centers across the country. We offer a wide variety of titles with a particular focus on STEAM, bilingual books, and social emotional learning.
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Pyramid Model Consortium
Coming SoonThe Pyramid Model is a positive behavioral intervention and support (PBIS) framework that is designed to help early educators build skills for supporting responsive caregiving, provide targeted social-emotional skills, and support children with challenging behavior.
About Us
Gardner Media offers books, games, and custom collections for children from 0 - 5 years. Our company brings a learning product to market that engages the child and the parent, helping each to discover how the child best learns. Books can be an indelible aid to every stage of a child's early development, and we make products available that address each of these early stages.
Curious Blueberry the Carousel Horse
Award-winning author Steve Metzger and the premier provider of early childhood education, The Goddard School®, present a book for little learners and their families encouraging readers to embrace the magic of curiosity.Follow Blueberry the Carousel Horse and her friends as their world comes alive when children begin asking interesting questions. This captivating book highlights the power of curiosity and questions, and was inspired by Wonder of Learning™, an inquiry-based education program found only at The Goddard School. Throughout this interactive story are cues for the reader to ask open-ended questions to bring inquiry-based learning into your home. Page after page, you will get to appreciate the world through children’s eyes. Because when you let wonder lead, learning will follow naturally.
Whole Child Series
Our Whole Child Series features four titles focused on babies’ first year of life and their interactions with the world. With helpful tips for parents and providers to engage babies in social, emotional, physical and cognitive behaviors, each title features vibrant photos showing a diverse representation of parents and caregivers interacting with their children throughout the day. Written by award-winning author Steve Metzger, our Whole Child series will help foster healthy development, future positive relationships, healthy self-esteem and physical activity.