Thank you for the Silver

Today the Lovie Awards announced this year’s winners, and LESA’s website won Silver in the Websites & Mobile Sites, Education category. I want to take this moment to thank the people who got us here.

Thank you, team

The website was designed and built by the team at Revera. Designers, developers and editors found a way to tell parents in a few seconds what LESA is, which children it is for and why a child would want to read every day. We submitted the website in March, five months before LESA launched, when it was the only part of LESA parents could see. Thank you for all the work.

Thank you, parents, teachers and children

Since LESA launched on 17 August, parents, teachers and children have sent us messages and suggestions. They tell us what to fix and which stories to write next. This award belongs to you too.

Thank you, Lovie

The Lovie Awards are the European sister awards of the Webby Awards, and around a thousand entries arrive every year from more than 30 countries. Past winners include Google, Spotify and LEGO, and IKEA and Tesla have been nominated. Seeing a small Icelandic reading game on the same list makes us very happy. Thank you to the jury for giving our website your time.

What comes next

We want to build the most fun reading game in the world. We are opening LESA to children outside Iceland, and the first new country arrives at the end of the year. The dream is the same everywhere: Children asking for one more story before bed.

If you have a child who is learning to read, join the waitlist at lesa.app.

Thank you.

We are just getting started.

Birgir, founder of LESA