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:
