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 ...
A Tales of EUkraine event will take place this year at the Brussels Book Fair (Foire du Livre de Bruxelles). After publishing and distributing almost 300,000 bilingual children's books to Ukrainian children all over Europe, the project, co-funded by Creative Europe, will be among the highlights of this year's opening of the Place à l'Europe, the European Commission stand at the Brussels Book Fair, on 25 March 2026. Olga Skyrda, a Ukrainian storyteller, will read to Ukrainian children based in Belgium two of the five books recently co-published in bilingual versions by the Federation of European Publishers and the Old Lion Publishing House: The Story Told by Zuka and Yakyv and the Wet Evening . After the reading, Glenn Micallef, European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, will officially open the stand and distribute bilingual books to the children.