OUR WORK
projects
Books are how we started. Projects are how we grow. Everything here began with a community, a question, or a craft worth preserving — and ended up as something that didn't exist before.
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Threads of Tales
A centuries-old embroidery tradition. A children's book. Two organisations, two countries, one shared question: what happens when you listen to the women who kept the stories alive?
Funded by the British Council, Bok Bok Books partnered with HerStory Foundation in Bangladesh to explore nakshi kantha — an embroidery practice where women stitched personal journals into cloth, embedding social commentary, cultural memory, and acts of quiet resistance into fabric. That research became two books. Bok Bok Books produced Stories from Bengal, a children's illustrated book retelling myths and folk tales from the Bengal region. HerStory's artisans produced 200 hand-embroidered editions — tactile archives, each one made by hand.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Threads of Tales
A centuries-old embroidery tradition. A children's book. Two organisations, two countries, one shared question: what happens when you listen to the women who kept the stories alive?
Funded by the British Council, Bok Bok Books partnered with HerStory Foundation in Bangladesh to explore nakshi kantha — an embroidery practice where women stitched personal journals into cloth, embedding social commentary, cultural memory, and acts of quiet resistance into fabric. That research became two books. Bok Bok Books produced Stories from Bengal, a children's illustrated book retelling myths and folk tales from the Bengal region. HerStory's artisans produced 200 hand-embroidered editions — tactile archives, each one made by hand.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Threads of Tales
A centuries-old embroidery tradition. A children's book. Two organisations, two countries, one shared question: what happens when you listen to the women who kept the stories alive?
Funded by the British Council, Bok Bok Books partnered with HerStory Foundation in Bangladesh to explore nakshi kantha — an embroidery practice where women stitched personal journals into cloth, embedding social commentary, cultural memory, and acts of quiet resistance into fabric. That research became two books. Bok Bok Books produced Stories from Bengal, a children's illustrated book retelling myths and folk tales from the Bengal region. HerStory's artisans produced 200 hand-embroidered editions — tactile archives, each one made by hand.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Threads of Tales
A centuries-old embroidery tradition. A children's book. Two organisations, two countries, one shared question: what happens when you listen to the women who kept the stories alive?
Funded by the British Council, Bok Bok Books partnered with HerStory Foundation in Bangladesh to explore nakshi kantha — an embroidery practice where women stitched personal journals into cloth, embedding social commentary, cultural memory, and acts of quiet resistance into fabric. That research became two books. Bok Bok Books produced Stories from Bengal, a children's illustrated book retelling myths and folk tales from the Bengal region. HerStory's artisans produced 200 hand-embroidered editions — tactile archives, each one made by hand.
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EDUCATIONAL TOOL
Roll to Reimagine
A board game about race, culture, and belonging — co-designed by the children it's made for.
Working with pupils from two Middlesbrough primary schools, Bok Bok Books and game designers Strong Point Games developed Roll to Reimagine: a cooperative game where players work together to gather knowledge and challenge misinformation in their community. Nobody wins by beating each other. You win by standing together.
Commissioned through Borderlands and developed across co-design sessions at Breckon Hill Primary and Berwick Hills Primary, the game puts children in the role of designers, not just players — their ideas, experiences, and questions shaped every mechanic.
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EDUCATIONAL TOOL
Roll to Reimagine
A board game about race, culture, and belonging — co-designed by the children it's made for.
Working with pupils from two Middlesbrough primary schools, Bok Bok Books and game designers Strong Point Games developed Roll to Reimagine: a cooperative game where players work together to gather knowledge and challenge misinformation in their community. Nobody wins by beating each other. You win by standing together.
Commissioned through Borderlands and developed across co-design sessions at Breckon Hill Primary and Berwick Hills Primary, the game puts children in the role of designers, not just players — their ideas, experiences, and questions shaped every mechanic.
Our Partners
EDUCATIONAL TOOL
Roll to Reimagine
A board game about race, culture, and belonging — co-designed by the children it's made for.
Working with pupils from two Middlesbrough primary schools, Bok Bok Books and game designers Strong Point Games developed Roll to Reimagine: a cooperative game where players work together to gather knowledge and challenge misinformation in their community. Nobody wins by beating each other. You win by standing together.
Commissioned through Borderlands and developed across co-design sessions at Breckon Hill Primary and Berwick Hills Primary, the game puts children in the role of designers, not just players — their ideas, experiences, and questions shaped every mechanic.
Our Partners
EDUCATIONAL TOOL
Roll to Reimagine
A board game about race, culture, and belonging — co-designed by the children it's made for.
Working with pupils from two Middlesbrough primary schools, Bok Bok Books and game designers Strong Point Games developed Roll to Reimagine: a cooperative game where players work together to gather knowledge and challenge misinformation in their community. Nobody wins by beating each other. You win by standing together.
Commissioned through Borderlands and developed across co-design sessions at Breckon Hill Primary and Berwick Hills Primary, the game puts children in the role of designers, not just players — their ideas, experiences, and questions shaped every mechanic.
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COMMUNITY PUBLISHING
What's In My Suitcase
Ten objects. Ten stories. Ten windows into what it means to carry your culture with you.
Children from four Middlesbrough primary schools brought objects connected to migration and family heritage into workshops — a piece of jewellery, a photograph, a recipe. Those objects became the heart of a children's illustrated book: each one a chapter, each chapter a different experience of movement, memory, and belonging. A collecting magpie travels between ten migratory bird visitors, gathering their stories one by one.
What's in My Suitcase? is the legacy publication of the Mobile Museum of Migration — a programme that placed children's voices and experiences at its centre, from the first workshop through to a school-based editing phase where pupils shaped the final text. Illustrated by Miki Rogers. Publishing October 2026.
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COMMUNITY PUBLISHING
What's In My Suitcase
Ten objects. Ten stories. Ten windows into what it means to carry your culture with you.
Children from four Middlesbrough primary schools brought objects connected to migration and family heritage into workshops — a piece of jewellery, a photograph, a recipe. Those objects became the heart of a children's illustrated book: each one a chapter, each chapter a different experience of movement, memory, and belonging. A collecting magpie travels between ten migratory bird visitors, gathering their stories one by one.
What's in My Suitcase? is the legacy publication of the Mobile Museum of Migration — a programme that placed children's voices and experiences at its centre, from the first workshop through to a school-based editing phase where pupils shaped the final text. Illustrated by Miki Rogers. Publishing October 2026.
Our Partners
COMMUNITY PUBLISHING
What's In My Suitcase
Ten objects. Ten stories. Ten windows into what it means to carry your culture with you.
Children from four Middlesbrough primary schools brought objects connected to migration and family heritage into workshops — a piece of jewellery, a photograph, a recipe. Those objects became the heart of a children's illustrated book: each one a chapter, each chapter a different experience of movement, memory, and belonging. A collecting magpie travels between ten migratory bird visitors, gathering their stories one by one.
What's in My Suitcase? is the legacy publication of the Mobile Museum of Migration — a programme that placed children's voices and experiences at its centre, from the first workshop through to a school-based editing phase where pupils shaped the final text. Illustrated by Miki Rogers. Publishing October 2026.
Our Partners
COMMUNITY PUBLISHING
What's In My Suitcase
Ten objects. Ten stories. Ten windows into what it means to carry your culture with you.
Children from four Middlesbrough primary schools brought objects connected to migration and family heritage into workshops — a piece of jewellery, a photograph, a recipe. Those objects became the heart of a children's illustrated book: each one a chapter, each chapter a different experience of movement, memory, and belonging. A collecting magpie travels between ten migratory bird visitors, gathering their stories one by one.
What's in My Suitcase? is the legacy publication of the Mobile Museum of Migration — a programme that placed children's voices and experiences at its centre, from the first workshop through to a school-based editing phase where pupils shaped the final text. Illustrated by Miki Rogers. Publishing October 2026.
Our Partners