Green Bean Collection Founded By Anita Frost

21/8/2024

Indulge in some high-street shopping at the heart of Manchester's city centre, where Green Bean the household friend is now on sale in both Manchester Museum Shop & The Whitworth Shop.

The Green Bean Collection was developed by author and founder, Anita Frost. Combining her extensive professional experience in child development and business, with her passion for creativity and sustainability, Anita created this unique and highly collectable series of books, toys, and games for children.

The books centre around leading character, Green Bean - a fun, cool, genderless anthropomorphic green bean - along with six lovable friends in the fictional world of Adventure Dales. The stories are highly appealing and accessible for young children from birth, to preschoolers and primary aged children.

Edutainment is at the heart of our business, bringing joy and excitement to the process of learning and education through fun adventures. Each of the characters in the stories help to emphasise the importance of community and friendship, teaching the value of working together and respecting each other despite our differences.

Soft Toy | Green Bean™

£8.99

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Soft Toy | Beckett The Bee™

£24.99

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The Green Bean Collection upholds a real sense of having fun adventures, encouraging an awareness of the natural world around us, and helping to inspire children and families to live greener, healthier lifestyles whilst nurturing the environment. From recycling, to harnessing natural resources to build and be creative with, the Green Bean brand teaches children to have respect and love for nature, animals and the planet.

When creating this collection, an important consideration was to promote a love of learning and reading. All of the books and toys contain elements of the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) statutory framework, to support children’s learning and development of key skills including numeracy, literacy and communication.

Baby Bean 0 to 24M

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Preschool Bean 2 to 5Y

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Jumping Bean 5 to 7Y

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An instant hit with fans on the highstreet
The first highstreet shop to sell the Green Bean Collection was Waterstones on Deansgate, Manchester. We were overwhelmed with the popularity of our books, retaining two feature walls of goods which completely sold out within a two-week time frame. This demonstrated to us that there was an instant love for our stories, the characters, and the brand from children and parents alike.

Reaching more fans with our YouTube channel
When we launched our brand three years ago, we also launched our YouTube channel alongside it.

Our storytime videos with children’s TV presenter, Steve Jesson, gave us another way to share the joy of learning and adventures with even more fans across the globe. Reading our stories with children in the videos is a fun and engaging way to connect with our fans and make the stories accessible to all.

We recently launched a new series of videos called Play and Learn, featuring some of our genuine and devoted fans. Turning the tables for these videos, we let children take the lead, as they explore and play with the toys and games from our collection, discussing what they like about them and giving viewers an authentic experience of our range with feedback from a child’s perspective. These insights and feedback from children themselves is of key importance to our business, and demonstrates the real love children have for our brand and products.