Happy New Year!
Happy new year to all our translators, supporters, readers and friends! We hope you had a great start into the year 2023. Hopefully, it will be a year full of amazing stories both in fiction and reality! As we slowly settle into the new year, let's look back on 2022.
In 2022 on bilingual-picturebooks.org...
- 2 new languages were added. Children from
- 3 different countries wrote the story "How Can the Future Be a Success?" together.
- 9 new books were written and drawn by groups of children.
- 68 new audiobooks were recorded by people all over the world.
- 174 new translations were created by our volunteer translators.
- 10.000 bilingual picturebooks were given as welcoming gifts to refugee children from Ukraine.
The Top 5 most downloaded books of 2022 are:
- The Flaming Fox
- How Does the Future Actually Come About?
- The Glass Ring
- Chocolate Cake on Hawaii
- The Gift of a Dream
We are very grateful for all the new stories and translations that were created in 2022 and are excited to see what the new year will bring.
Another event we would like to share with you, is that the joint community Gellersen in Germany made some very special christmas gifts this year. 46 children living in refugee accomodations in Gellersen were each gifted a bilingual edition of "The Glass Ring" in German and their native language. The books were printed in Arabic, Farsi, Spanish, Ukrainian, Russian and English. We are so happy to see that our books are reaching the people who need them!