No screens, ever.
Everything we make lives on paper. No QR code, no app, no accompanying video. The book is enough on its own.
About Andaralpha
Where stories grow with those who read them.
We are an independent Christian publisher. We make hardback educational books for families with children aged 3 to 10, each built on a simple method to do at home, without screens.
We believe that fifteen minutes a day, , read aloud, with a book open between two people, do more for a child than any app. We don't sell a subscription. We don't ask for screens. We ask for time, and give back a routine the family comes to feel is its own.
What guides us
Three principles, and no exceptions.
A purchase, not a subscription.
You buy the book once and it's yours forever. No monthly boxes, no renewals, no fine print.
Made by hand, in Portugal.
Hand-drawn illustration, text reviewed by natives in each language, printing in Portugal. We care for each page like someone who will read it aloud.
How we started
A publisher born at the kitchen table.
2023
A question
How do you sit a seven-year-old down, without screens, without scolding, and actually have a conversation? The answer began to take the shape of a book.
2024
The method
READ · TALK · CREATE. Three movements, fifteen minutes, a complete session inside each book. Tested in real homes before it had a name.
2025
Joseph takes colour
Eighteen hand-illustrated spreads, sixteen questions, a paper coat. The first book is ready in three languages at once.
2026
It comes home
When God Uses Dreams reaches bookshops and Amazon. And the collection grows: Genesis is followed by Exodus, and the New Testament with Matthew and Mark.
Who's behind it
I’m Mariana. I write, illustrate and edit every Andaralpha book. I started making them for my own daughter and never stopped, because every new book is, above all, an excuse to sit down together again.
Mariana PereiraFounder, editor & illustrator
Talk to us
Mariana replies in person.
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Where
Published and printed in Portugal. Shipped worldwide via Amazon.
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Languages
Português · Español · English