A message to our German-speaking friends: you can now donate Tales of EUkraine books in your language!

Our German partners at the German Publishers and Booksellers Association (BOEV) have made a first selection of TEUk books available for distribution!

If you work in an organisation that supports Ukrainian refugees, or that is dedicated to make literature accessible to children, you can contact BOEV using this page: Tales of EUkraine - Börsenverein (boersenverein.de) to receive our books!

Using the form on the page, you can order up to four sets of 24 books (4 copies for each of the 6 available titles in German so far) to be delivered to your organisation. The price for delivery, independently of the number of copies selected, is 14 Euro. This service is organised in partnership with the delivery company "Die Werkstatt."

Want to join? Then do not wait! and spread the word with any organisation that might be interested in making our books available to children!

For further information, and if you have any question you can also contact BOEV directly at: teuk@boev.de.

Also, if you are a subscriber, you can read an interview to two German publishers involved in Tales of EUkraine on Börsenblatt, BOEV's newspaper. You can find the article (in German) here: "Unsere Bücher sollen Mut spenden" (boersenblatt.net).

The books present in this first selection have been published by German Publisher Slavicum and Friedrich Mauke Verlag. Their Ukrainian publishers are: Artbook Publishing House, THE BLACK SHEEP Publishing House For Children's Literature and Art Books, Publishing Mushlya LLC, Publishing House RM, Vivat Publishing LTD, and Ranok Publishing House. You can read more about these books here.

Tales of EUkraine is a Creative Europe project (101100131 - CREA-CULT-2022-COOP-2)

The project is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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 ...

Presentation of Tales of EUkraine at the IP Education network in Crete

On Friday 17 May, Enrico Turrin (Federation of European Publishers) attended a meeting of the Intellectual Property (IP) Education network in Heraklion (Crete, Greece) – where EU Ministries of Education, European IP offices and other stakeholders met to discuss intellectual property topics related to education. The meeting was an opportunity to present Tales of EUkraine to representatives from the EU ministries of education - notably, those from countries currently involved in the project. During the presentation, attendees learned more about the project's goals and the partners involved in TEUk. The meeting also gave the chance to showcase the results achieved so far by the project, including the involvement of more than 21 publishers from 6 different countries, and the production of 76,400 copies with 35 titles already published or scheduled to be published. Finally, the presentation was also the occasion to invite ministries of education from the participating countr...

Tales of EUkraine at BRaK Book Festival

From 31 May to 2 June, Tales of EUkraine was present with a stand at BRaK - Bratislava Book Festival , which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. The stand was open throughout the Festival and it was organised by TEUk partner Združenie vydavateľov a kníhkupcov. Bilingual books from the Slovakian publishing houses participating in Tales of EUkraine were available and attendees of the festival could pass by to get their copy of the titles published so far to gift to Ukrainian children. Among the publishing houses at TEUk stand in Bratislava there were Matys, Dajama and Ideál. Five different titles were available in bilingual Ukrainian-Slovakian edition: Svet okolo nás (The World Around Us), Detektív Teo – Záhada zmiznutých rybičiek (Guinea Pig Investigates), Pani osminožka (Mrs. Octopus), Išla Myška do sveta (The Mouse went into the world) and Ako sa vrabček učil múdrosti (Trouble Teaches). A photo gallery of the books at the stand is avai...

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