📚 Newly Illustrated Picture Book "In Here, Out There!" Available for Free as PDF eBook

Surprise! The picture book "In Here, Out There!" is now available for free online right here as a newly illustrated e-book in PDF format (approx. 49MB) with layers for over 5,000 language combinations.

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

The new illustrations were created with the support of Google Gemini. For the first time since the story "In Here, Out There!" was originally published in 2011, you can now color the illustrations yourself, rethink them, creatively redesign them, and invent and 'paint' new details and plotlines. The coloring templates are on an additional layer in the PDF, allowing children to reinvent the story and color it in their own unique way. In this sense, this newly illustrated edition should be viewed as one of infinitely many creative possibilities to bring the story to life through images.

We warmly invite you to discover and enjoy the new illustrations right here or later at your leisure in the e-book. When you get the chance, use your own creativity to transform the story with your children into new and exciting images again and again!

If you are unable or unwilling to open e-books in PDF format, you can find the new illustrations in the German-English language combination right here:

Please note: This new edition is neither a replacement for the original editions nor should it be seen as an 'update' or similar. The newly illustrated edition is simply an additional perspective that plays and experiments with new contemporary technical possibilities, much like a child first experimenting with golden pens and highlighters when they get their hands on them. A particularly strong source of inspiration for the current re-illustration of "In Here, Out There!" was the 'Claymation' technique, in which scenes are intricately shaped and modeled from modeling clay.

If you are unable or unwilling to open e-books in PDF format with layers, you can also find the new sketch-like coloring page illustrations with text in the German-English language combination right here:

Please note: The new, sketch-like coloring pages above were created with the support of Google Gemini. They are based on the original illustrations by illustrator Lena Hesse, who drew the charming, colorful illustrations for the first edition. The original illustrations are also saved on their own layer in the PDF and can be displayed as an alternative or for inspiration.

If you are unable or unwilling to open e-books in PDF format with layers, you can find the original illustrations by Lena Hesse with text in the German-English language combination right here:

Please note: Over 5,000 bilingual editions featuring the colorful original illustrations by illustrator Lena Hesse are also available here directly for free as e-books in PDF format.

📚 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:

Please note: Over 10,000 bilingual editions are also currently available for free right here as e-books in PDF format.