About the project Tales of EUkraine (TEUk) is an opportunity for European publishers to support their Ukrainian counterparts and to display their solidarity to the most vulnerable victims of the conflict by doing what they do best: publishing books. This project will bring together European and Ukrainian publishers to deliver bilingual children’s books to several communities hosting Ukrainian refugees, fostering integration and mutual understanding. TEUk has built a catalogue of Ukrainian children’s books available for publishers to acquire the rights to and publish them in bilingual editions. The project partners will purchase the part of the print run to be distributed to displaced children and organise its distribution to the Ukrainian refugee communities, whilst publishers will be invited to promote the book to their national communities. TEUk will facilitate the integration of Ukrainian children in their host countries, increase the knowledge of Ukrainian culture across the ...
On 31 March, Tales of EUkraine returned to the Bologna Children's Book Fair , the biggest book fair in Europe dedicated to children's books. The event, titled “ Tales of EUkraine: Everyone Deserves Their Own Story ”, was organised by TEUk partners, the Federation of European Publishers and the Ukrainian Book Institute at the Next Chapter Café (Hall 29, Bologna Children's Book Fair). During the event, our colleagues described the project and illustrated its main results so far, putting the book by Victoria Amelina, " The Eh-Eh-Edventures of Excavator Eka ", in the spotlight, also thanks to the presence of Marjana Savka , from Amelina’s Ukrainian publisher Old Lion, and Kateryna Mikhalitsyna , Ukrainian author, translator, and a friend of Victoria Amelina, whose children’s book she edited. TEUk partners from Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Slovakia joined the event, as well as representatives from the European Commission. Throughout the Fair, TEUk books were exhibited...