Share your reading lists. When families buy through them, Bookshop.org pays you directly. We don’t take a cut.
Build your first listYou spend your own money on your classroom library. You stay late picking the right read-aloud for a kid who’s going through something at home. You recommend books to parents at conferences, in hallway conversations, in email threads at 9pm.
Nobody has ever treated that like the skilled, important work it is.
Wonderlit was built so the person who makes the match, who knows that this book is the one for this kid at this moment, has a platform built around them. Not the other way around.
Every filter, tag, and search on Wonderlit was designed with classrooms in mind.
Anxiety. New sibling. Divorce. Moving. Grief. Being different. Find books by what a kid is going through, not just what the cover says.
Create a list in minutes, organized however you want. Each list gets its own shareable link with summaries and buy buttons ready for families.
Browse by age, theme, interest, reading level, and situation. The same way you already think about finding the right book for a classroom.
Every book has a parent-facing summary, gentle content advisories, and conversation starters. Families know exactly what they’re getting and why.
You’re the one who read the reviews, tested it with a reluctant reader, and knew it was right for room 204. Most platforms take that and give you nothing.
Bookshop.org pays you directly. We never see your earnings. We built a platform where your expertise finally gets funded, and every cent goes to the person doing the actual work.
Wonderlit is small, on purpose. That means when you tell us something, it changes.
Responsive to your feedback. Found a bug? Have an idea for a filter that would help your classroom? We read every message and most fixes ship within days, not quarters.
Indie bookstores first. Primary purchases go through Bookshop.org, supporting independent bookstores. Families can also buy through Amazon if they prefer.
Teachers and parents, same platform. You build lists and earn from them. Parents discover books by what their family is going through. Two audiences, one mission.
Built by a dad who wanted the right book for the right moment, and was putting way too much work into finding it.
My kid was going through a hard stretch. I searched everywhere. Nobody let me search by what was actually happening in our family. So I built the thing I needed. Tens of thousands of books, tagged by life moment, with summaries and advisories written for the parent in the moment.
But the tool is only half of it. The other half has always been the teacher, the person who already knows which book belongs in which kid’s hands. Wonderlit is built to make that expertise visible, shareable, and for the first time, funded.
Five minutes to build your first list. Free. And every book a family buys through it? Your recommendations. Your earnings. 100%.
Build your first list