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About Tales of EUkraine

  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 ...
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A message of hope for Ukraine coming from children's books

24 February 2026 marks the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Tales of EUkraine is one of many expressions of solidarity from European publishers towards their Ukrainian colleagues and the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians who have sought refuge in Europe during the ongoing war. On this sad anniversary, Tales of EUkraine prefers to look to the future with hope, and it does so with five children's books recently published through our project, thanks to the collaboration between the Federation of European Publishers , coordinator of TEUk, The Old Lion Publishing House  (publisher of the five titles)   and the Ukrainian printing company Unisoft : Yakyv and the Wet Evening , Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, illustrated by Hrasia Oliyko The Secret Superpower , Slava Svitova, illustrated by Oleksander Shatokhin The Story Told by Zuka , Grasya Oliyko A Ghost That Couldn't Fall Asleep , Natalka Maletych, illustrated by Natala Tchorna Fogi , Oleksander Shatokhin ...

Nearly 90 thousand new bilingual books to reach Belgium, France, Italy and the Netherlands

Tales of EUkraine's mission to distribute bilingual children's books to Ukrainian displaced children has never been limited to the project partner's countries. After Greece , where several thousand books have already been distributed in the previous months, three more countries will benefit from the project: Belgium , France and the Netherlands . At the same time, Ukrainian children in Italy will also receive thousands of new books!  This has been possible thanks to an international cooperation between Tales of EUkraine , the Ukrainian Publishing House Old Lion , and the Ukrainian printing facility Unisoft. TEUk   and Old Lion coordinated for the production of bilingual versions in Ukrainian-French, Ukrainian-Italian, and Ukrainian-Dutch of five titles: Fogi (original title: Фоґі ); The Story Told by Zhuka (original title: Історія, яку розповіла Жука ); A Ghost who couldn’t fall Asleep (original title: Привид, який не міг заснути ); My Secret Superpower (original title:...

Tales of EUkraine in Frankfurt - A photogallery

Picture: FEP Picture: FEP Tales of EUkraine organised the event " Every Child Deserves Their Own Story " during the Frankfurt Book Fair , on 15 October at 15:00 at the Ukrainian National Stand, which also hosted shelves with bilingual books published during the project. A more detailed report of the event is available on our blog in a dedicated article . On TEUk shelves were present bilingual books in Ukrainian and Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and more. The books were showcased throughout the whole fair as a sign of the impact the project had since its beginning. In this photogallery, we collect a few more impressions of our event. Unless stated otherwise, the pictures were taken by Akim Karpach.  Alessandra Luchetti, Deputy Director of the European Education & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) at the European Commission Dr Viktoriia von Rosen, Chairwoman of the Ukrainian Coordination Centre André Störr, publisher of Friedrich Mauke Verlag Enrico Turrin, Dep...

Every Child Deserves Their Own Story - Our event at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

Picture by Akim Karpach Once again in 2025, Tales of EUkraine took part in the Frankfurt Book Fair , the world’s largest trade fair for books. Hosted by our project partner, the Ukrainian Book Institute , we organised the event Every Child Deserves Its Own Story  on Wednesday, 15 October. The session brought together several speakers who shared their experiences with the project, each representing a different part of the ecosystem involved in TEUk. Alessandra Luchetti , Deputy Director of the European Education & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) at the European Commission, opened the event by emphasising the project’s importance as one of the ways for the Commission to show solidarity with Ukraine through culture. Picture by Akim Karpach Enrico Turrin , Deputy Director of the Federation of European Publishers , project coordinator, presented the key results achieved so far, including more than 100 titles in the Tales of EUkraine catalogue and an estimated 290,000 copies publ...

Save the Date - Tales of EUkraine event at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

Tales of EUkraine will be back at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2025. The project, which aims to distribute bilingual children's books in Ukrainian and other European languages to Ukrainian children displaced in Europe, will return to the world's largest trade book fair to showcase the results obtained by European publishers in support of their Ukrainian counterparts and Ukrainian children throughout Europe. See you on  Wednesday, 15 October, from 15:00 to 16:00 at the Ukrainian Collective Stand  ( Hall 4.1, F79/80 ) for our event: Tales of EUkraine: Every Child Deserves their Own Story . Once again, TEUk will be hosted by our colleagues from the Ukrainian Book Institute.  Speakers Alessandra Luchetti , Deputy Director of the European Education & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), Head of Department B: Creativity, Citizens, EU values & Joint Operations Enrico Turrin , Deputy Director of the Federation of European Publishers, Coordinator of Tales of EUkraine André Stör...

Everyone Deserves Their Own Story - TEUk event at the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025

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...