📚 New Release: Children's Book "Egbert Turns Red" with new Illustrations as Free PDF eBook

Aaah! Over 10,000 bilingual e-books in a single PDF: The picture book "Egbert Turns Red" is now available online for free as a newly illustrated e-book in PDF format (approx. 49MB) with layers for over 10,000 language combinations.

In a PDF reader that supports layers (e.g., Acrobat Reader on Windows 11 PCs or the Firefox browser for PCs), simply select the desired language combination and click the visibility icon to display the language layers.

The new illustrations were created with the support of Google Gemini. Since its first publication in 2009, the "Egbert Turns Red" coloring story has been about coloring the illustrations yourself, thinking creatively, reimagining them, and inventing and "painting" new details and plotlines.

In 2025, the first color-illustrated editions were released, which also contain the uncolored, sketch-like illustrations on an additional layer in the PDF, so that children can reinvent and color the story in their own way. This newly illustrated edition should also be seen in this light: It is one of an infinite number of creative possibilities for bringing the story to life through pictures.

This new edition is not intended to replace the old editions, nor should it be seen as an "update" or "improvement". The newly illustrated edition is simply an additional perspective that plays and experiments with the new technical possibilities of the present, just as children experimented with golden pens and highlighters when they first got their hands on them.

The techniques of "claymation" and the artistic styles of Gustav Klimt and Vincent van Gogh were particularly strong inspirations for the current new illustrations of "Egbert Turns Red".

You are warmly invited to discover and enjoy the new illustrations right here or later at your leisure in the free e-book, and to take the opportunity to bring the story to life with your children, with your own creativity, in ever-new and exciting pictures!

If you cannot or do not want to open e-books in PDF format, you will find the new illustrations in the English-German language combination directly below:

📚 New Releases 2025: Children's Book in All 55 Languages of the Voyager Golden Records

The so-called "Voyager Golden Records" are golden records with data and sound recordings that were transported into space in 1977 on board the space probes Voyager I and Voyager II. The golden records were conceived by NASA as a message to extraterrestrials who might one day encounter the space probes. Therefore, the records contain peaceful, friendly greeting messages in 55 languages.

Our picture book "Am I small?" will be available from September 2025 in all 55 languages of the "Voyager Golden Records" greetings as softcover, hardcover and e-book. The Voyager I spacecraft is currently the most distant man-made object from Earth. The following list contains links to all editions of the children's book in the 55 languages of the "Voyager Golden Records" greetings. All editions that are not published in English also contain an English translation for better understanding, so they are bilingual:

1. 📘  Akkadian
   
   
2. 📘  Amoy (Min dialect)
   
   
3. 📘  Arabic
   
   
4. 📘  Aramaic
   
   
5. 📘  Armenian
   
   
6. 📘  Bengali
   
   
7. 📘  Burmese
   
   
8. 📘  Cantonese
   
   
9. 📘  Czech
   
   
10. 📘  Dutch
    
    
11. 📘  English
    
    
12. 📘  French
    
    
13. 📘  German
    
    
14. 📘  Greek (Ancient); also available: Greek (Modern), cf. note 2
    
    
15. 📘  Gujarati
    
    
16. 📘  Hebrew
    
    
17. 📘  Hindi
    
    
18. 📘  Hittite
    
    
19. 📘  Hungarian (Magyar)
    
    
20. 📘  Ila (Zambia)
    
    
21. 📘  Indonesian
    
    
22. 📘  Italian
    
    
23. 📘  Japanese
    
    
24. 📘  Kannada (Kanarese)
    
    
25. 📘  Kechua (Quechua)
    
    
26. 📘  Korean
    
    
27. 📘  Latin
    
    
28. 📘  Luganda (Ganda)
    
    
29. 📘  Mandarin Chinese (Simplified); also available: Mandarin Chinese (Traditional), cf. note 3
    
    
30. 📘  Marathi
    
    
31. 📘  Nepali
    
    
32. 📘  Nguni (Zulu)
    
    
33. 📘  Nyanja
    
    
34. 📘  Oriya
    
    
35. 📘  Persian
    
    
36. 📘  Polish
    
    
37. 📘  Portuguese (Portugal); also available: Brazilian Portuguese, cf. note 4
    
    
38. 📘  Punjabi
    
    
39. 📘  Rajasthani
    
    
40. 📘  Romanian
    
    
41. 📘  Russian
    
    
42. 📘  Serbian; also available: Bosnian, Croatian and Montenegrin, cf. note 1
    
    
43. 📘  Sotho (Sesotho) [South Africa]; also available: Sotho (Sesotho) [Lesotho], cf. note 5
    
    
44. 📘  Sinhala / Sinhalese
    
    
45. 📘  Spanish
    
    
46. 📘  Sumerian
    
    
47. 📘  Swedish
    
    
48. 📘  Telugu
    
    
49. 📘  Thai
    
    
50. 📘  Turkish
    
    
51. 📘  Ukrainian
    
    
52. 📘  Urdu
    
    
53. 📘  Vietnamese
    
    
54. 📘  Welsh
    
    
55. 📘  Wu; also available: Editions in over 250 languages and dialects, cf. note 7
    
    

Notes: Since an eventful period of time has passed since the launch of the space probes in 1977, we feel that some additions to the above list make sense for the following reasons:

1. The language formerly known as "Serbo-Croatian" (cf. Carl Sagan et al. (1980): "Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record") is now called either Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian or Montenegrin for political reasons and has differentiated, therefore editions in all these languages are available. Incidentally, NASA currently (in 2025) lists the language on the official website as "Serbian", therefore the language "Serbian" was also used primarily in the list above, but this is not to be understood as a weighting or rating, but merely serves to sort the languages.

2. The language referred to by NASA as "Greek" is, if you analyze the greeting message, strictly speaking "Ancient Greek". This was also confirmed to us by the speaker of the greeting message via email. Therefore, editions are available in both Modern Greek and Ancient Greek.

3. Since Mandarin can be written with simplified or traditional Chinese characters and of course no characters were used in the spoken greeting message, book editions are available in both variants.

4. Since Portuguese is spoken differently in different countries, e.g. Portugal and Brazil, an edition in Brazilian Portuguese is also available.

5. The language referred to by NASA as "Sesotho" is also spoken in different countries, e.g. Lesotho and South Africa, and here too there are regional differences, therefore different editions are available.

6. All books are available as eBook, softcover and hardcover in the store. It is not known whether NASA has already radioed a digital edition of the book to the space probe and stored it in its memory. ;) By the way, the second language on the cover of the book in the illustration at the beginning of this blog post is Sumerian, written in cuneiform.

7. Since NASA's intention was to let as many languages and speakers as possible have their say in the greeting messages, to build linguistic bridges and to enable communication, we have continued this idea and created editions in over 250 languages and dialects in thousands of language combinations, so that every country on earth is represented with at least one national language. Thousands of new bridges between the languages and dialects of this planet have thus been successfully built: With every book, more communication is created for a peaceful, friendly coexistence.