Children discover their own voice - through stories they tell themselves!

This guide shows educators how to create a picture book together with children that reflects their ideas and creativity. Step by step, you’ll learn how to involve the children in the entire creative process—from the first idea to the publication in many languages.Inspiring examples and practical tips support you in bringing the children’s linguistic and cultural diversity into the work while also fostering their sense of agency.

About the project:
Reading promoters from all over the world agree: the first contact with books should always be in a familiar language. The demand for bilingual books is enormous. Unfortunately, however, there are very few of them. 
The aim of the Bücherpiraten project ‘1001 Sprache – bilingual-picturebooks.org’ is to create a database of bilingual picture book stories by children for children. Reading promoters from all over the world can upload stories by children to the site.
A network of volunteers translates the stories into 1001 languages. As many versions as possible are also recorded as audiobooks.
Families and reading promoters from all over the world can download the stories in any two languages free of charge at www.bilingual-picturebooks.org.