From Cookernup to the world: Wendy Pye's 300 million-book journey

From Cookernup to the world: Wendy Pye's 300 million-book journey
Wendy Pye has sold about 300 million children's books around the world. (Image: Wendy Pye Publishing)
Greg Hurrell
If Wendy Pye has a message for New Zealand businesses, it is to get out there and start exporting.After a lifetime of publishing early childhood and primary school readers, Pye has published her own book, Teaching the World to Read: My multimillion-dollar story.She told BusinessDesk a major motive for writing her memoirs was to show businesses how to export. Despite the opportunities, there weren’t a lot of experienced exporters in her field. “One of the things people don't understand is that education, internationally, is a hug...

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