Picture books about how technology works.

An independent children's publisher. Warm, funny stories that explain the technology children use every day, for ages 4 to 11.

About the press

Small Endian Press publishes picture books that take children's questions about technology seriously. Our books are written by Matthew Allen and follow the Colin the Computer™ series, a growing set of stories in the spirit of Mr Men: short, funny, and quietly educational. Every book introduces one idea, shows it in action, and leaves a thread for the next book to pick up. The illustrations are made using AI image tools, art-directed and finished by hand.

The list

• Book One

  Colin the Computer

  A Story About How Computers Work

  Paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 32 pages, full colour

  ISBN: 978-1-911912-00-2

• Book Two

  Colin the Computer Meets Berty Binary

  The Secret Language of Computers

  Paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 40 pages, full colour

  ISBN: 978-1-911912-01-9

• Book Three

  Colin the Computer Connects to the Internet

  What the Internet Actually Is

  Paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 32 pages, full colour

  ISBN: 978-1-911912-02-6

• Book Four

  Colin the Computer Meets Barry and Quincy

  How Barcodes and QR Codes Work

  Paperback, 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 42 pages, full colour

  ISBN: 978-1-911912-03-3

More titles are in production. Nineteen books are planned in the Colin the Computer series.

About the name

A "small press" is an independent publisher, working at a human scale. "Endian" comes from computing, where little-endian and big-endian describe which end of a number a computer stores first. The terms were borrowed from Gulliver's Travels, where the Lilliputians go to war over which end of a boiled egg to break. Small Endian Press sits somewhere in the middle of all that, which felt about right for a publisher of books about computers for people who are four.

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