2025-09-05

🎁 Free eBook: Children's Book "Egbert Turns Red" with new Illustrations

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 🎁 eBook in PDF format (approx. 49MB) with layers for over 10,000 language combinations.

The new illustrations were created with the support of Google Gemini. 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".

In combination with English, the eBook is available here as a free PDF download in over 100 languages and dialects, for example, in the 🎁 English-French language combination. Simply choose your desired second language below and then click the "Open" button to read the bilingual eBook:

Note: Both languages can be changed within the eBook, which means each PDF contains over 10,000 freely combinable language combinations. For an alternative bilingual view, you can select your desired language combination in a PDF reader that supports layers (e.g., Acrobat Reader on Windows PCs or the Firefox browser for PCs). To do this, simply click the visibility icon in the PDF's layers panel to show or hide the language layers. You can then view the story's text in your desired language combination, such as 🎁 German-Spanish.

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:






















Note: 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.

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.

For your own creative experiments, the e-book contains an additional layer with the sketch-like 🎁 coloring templates of the book's original illustrations.

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


















Note: 10,000+ 🎁 eBooks in PDF format were released, which also contain these uncolored, sketch-like illustrations on an additional layer in the PDF, so that children can reinvent and color the story in their own way. 

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


















Please note: Over 10,000 bilingual editions featuring the colorful illustrations above are also available for 🎁 free as eBooks in PDF format.

A huge thank you to all the translators who contributed to this book project: Romy Beer, Alessandra Sorbello Staub, Mayumi Homma, Mica Allalouf, Francesca Parenti, Min-Jae Dekena, Joo Yeon Kang, Dmitry Volkov, Alireza Shabani, Saber Zogby, Rocío Avi Arroyo, Melanie Rebasso, Abdessalam Ait Touijar, Txoyuk Arizkorreta, Sayed Anvari, Ermias Abrihet, Mohan Konidela, Rifaat Sadak, Mahmood Ahmad, Ngalabesi Khokhovula, Mathew Davis, Nceba Madikizela, Dinu Daya, Raam Abdullahi, Isaac Welsford, Chor-Tung Wong, Oluwatosin Balarabe, Omo Jesu, മാൽവിൻ മിറാഷ്, Nurzhan Temirkhan, J. Kahn, Paru Sandhu, Tikolx Laħam, Johnny Bravu, Talitha Wolmarans, Dina Chandratreya, Roded Avinur, Jiangbo Zhōng, Sampada Nakhare, Sevdali Selmani, Johnson Jolicoeur, ರಾಘವ ವಿಚಿರಂತ್, Daniela Whyte, Michel Bah, Nurul Hazarika, Iliriana Bisha Tagani, Sanja Knezevic, Marija Jovanović, Sallehuddin Hadi, Tanya Dolly, Chanida Rungrueang, Hamza Faiziyev, Þorsteinn Frimann, Nirmal Kumar Bohra, Ieva Sidaravičiūtė, Mindaugas Gudaitis, Rajamanickam Ramu, Niniko Georgia, Lamiya Mammadova, Vesna Miletic, Danijel Marković, Bethelhem Kuku, Eva Fischer, Petr Hrabe, Enrique Muñoz Mantas, Agris Kostabi, Rehana Sardar, Jahan Kos, Şebnem Karakaş, Daryna V. Temerbek, Galina Konstantinovna Zakharova, Christa Blattmann, Pola Taisali, Arrah Brown, Firuz Jumaev, Ľudmila Košková Nesbit, Andrés Rodas Vélez, Judith Manns, Lobsang Tsering, Marisa Pereira Paço Pragier, Catrine Lindgren, Mai-Le Timonen Wahlström, Steaphan MacRisnidh, Liliana Ioan, Dorota Beuker-Herud, Alina Omhandoro, Elspeth Grace Hall, Voara Ralaiarijaona, Mialy Razanajatovo, Sanja Bulatović, Katharina Martl, Heidi Helgemo, Sabina Hona, Tania Hoffmann-Fettes, Renate Glas, Piseth Kheng, Bouakeo Sivilay, Rizky Ranny Andayani, Varga Tünde, Juga Réka, Tamara Hveisel Hansen, Rudolf-Josef Fischer, Alejandro Escobedo, Myat Pyi Phyo, Kristel Aquino-Estanislao, Ελένη Τορόση, Anita Luft, Edmund Fairfax, Hroviland Bairhteins, Kristina Mørch Hendriksen, Heidi Alatalo, Aminath Mohamed Didi, Jingyi Chen, Tshering Tashi, Florian Schroiff, Eva Lindeman, An Wielockx, Lyubomir Tomov, Meliha Fazlic, Keung Nguyen, Hanh Vu, Chi Le, Lusine Vartanian ...  

Sincere thanks to all the readers, young and old, who, by purchasing an edition of "Egbert Turns Red" over the past few years, have ensured the book project's continuation and made additional translations and editions in new language combinations possible!

A big thank you to all future readers who support this book project by purchasing a printed edition, thereby supporting the book project's continuation and enabling families and readers around the world to access this story as a free eBook! 

A huge thank you to all the bloggers, reviewers, and press representatives who have introduced this book project to new readers internationally:

"child-friendly [...] regardless of the mother tongue and the target (learning) language" —CHUN Chinese Lessons, trade journal of the Chinese Association

"interplay of carefully chosen words and enchanting images"—Review from the Austrian School Portal

"Very Nice book! My daughter loves it!"—Review from the United States

"I got this as a present and it was well received."—Review from the United Kingdom

"Recommended reading for all parents and kindergarten teachers"—Austrian School Portal


2025-09-04

📚 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.