Company History
In 2008 Letterland celebrates 40 years of publishing success. In those 40 years we've published hundreds of titles that have sold in their millions around the world.
Today, we sell in 111 countries worldwide and our award-winning books and software have helped countless young children learn to read, write and spell. Not bad for something that began on a young mother's dining room table!
About the Author
Lyn Wendon, the creator of Letterland, was born in her grandmother's international school in Florence, Italy.
Lyn grew up in the USA and went to school in Canaan and Greenwich, Connecticut. She later gained a BA from Wellesley College.
She moved to the UK in 1955 and Lyn studied for a diploma in Experimental Educational Psychology at the Cambridge Institute of Education.
She then worked in primary schools and various independent schools as a peripatetic special needs teacher, combining that with raising three small children and inventing the phonics system that grew into Letterland.
Some 40 years after the creation of the original Letterland characters, Lyn is a consultant to the business and plays an active part in making Letterland the worldwide success it is today.
