Spike’s Sight Words Joins Gardners Books: Bringing Screen-Free Literacy Kits to Schools, Libraries, and Beyond

We are thrilled to announce a major milestone in our mission to transform literacy instruction across the UK: Spike’s Sight Words is now officially live on the Gardners Books wholesale network and bibliographic database!

By registering our award-winning tactile literacy intervention kits with Nielsen ISBNs and partnering with Gardners—the UK’s leading wholesaler of books, ebooks, and educational products—we have unlocked seamless, friction-free ordering for schools, public libraries, local authorities, and custodial education providers nationwide.

What This Milestone Means for Spike’s Sight Words as an Independent Business

As an independent British educational publisher and design house, expanding into institutional channels often comes with significant administrative hurdles. Institutional buyers—from county council procurement leads to prison education departments—rely on streamlined vendor frameworks. They need plug-and-play procurement solutions rather than setup processes for individual new suppliers.

Joining Gardners shifts Spike’s Sight Words from a direct-to-consumer pioneer into a fully integrated, national educational supplier. It allows us to:

• Scale Our Reach Nationally: Our physical, screen-free literacy resources can now be ordered through established public sector supply chains in seconds.

• Support Government Campaigns: As an official Pledge Partner for the Department for Education’s (DfE) “Go All In” National Year of Reading 2026 campaign, our inclusion on national bibliographic feeds ensures local authorities can easily access our kits using allocated literacy funding.

• Focus on Product Innovation: With wholesale distribution and back end logistics powered by Gardners, our team can focus on what we do best: designing tactile, play-based intervention tools that help learners of all ages build decoding confidence and orthographic mapping skills.

What This Means for Schools, Libraries, and Educational Institutions

For literacy coordinators, SENCOs, librarians, and prison education leads, finding high-impact, screen-free learning tools is only half the battle—ordering them through institutional finance systems is often the challenge.

Our listing on Gardners removes all procurement friction:

1. Seamless Procurement for Schools & SENCOs

Primary schools, secondary academies, and Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) can now order Spike’s Sight Words directly using their standard school management and library purchasing portals. Whether you are stocking a primary school reading corner, equipping a Special Educational Needs (SEN) intervention room, or updating your School Library Service (SLS) loan boxes, our kits can be added straight to your regular book orders using standard ISBN numbers.

2. Effortless Ordering for Public Libraries & Local Authorities

Public libraries play a pivotal role in community literacy, family hubs, and adult learning outreach. Because Gardners feeds directly into major library supply networks (including Askews & Holts, Browns Books, and local authority catalogue databases), library leads can seamlessly add Spike’s Sight Words to their core stocking lists and community loan collections.

3. Supporting Offender Education & Adult Literacy Hubs

Following successful paid pilots with Novus across custodial sites our adult literacy intervention kits are proven to deliver dignity, engagement, and rapid progress. Being on Gardners allows prison education wings, adult learning centers, and community hubs to easily order our kits through established MoJ and local authority procurement routes.

How to Order Spike’s Sight Words via Gardners

To find and order our range through Gardners or your preferred library and school supplier, simply search using the individual board title or the official ISBN numbers listed below:

ISBN Catalog Reference List

• Spike’s Sight Words – Action Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-0-9

• Spike’s Sight Words – Animals Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-1-6

• Spike’s Sight Words – Culture Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-2-3

• Spike’s Sight Words – Nature Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-3-0

• Spike’s Sight Words – So So Cute Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-4-7

• Spike’s Sight Words – Space Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-5-4

• Spike’s Sight Words – Sports 1 Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-6-1

• Spike’s Sight Words – Sports 2 Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-7-8

• Spike’s Sight Words – Vehicles 1 Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-8-5

• Spike’s Sight Words – Vehicles 2 Theme

  • ISBN: 978-1-0654791-9-2

Partnering for Literacy Success

Whether you are a headteacher looking for hands-on phonics and sight word intervention, a librarian expanding family literacy hubs, or an education lead managing justice and adult skills programs, Spike’s Sight Words is ready to support your learners.

HAVE A LOOK AT OUR AWARD-WINNING INTERVENTION LITERACY KITS NOW