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      Picture books, activity books & early learning material
      2019

      What Grows in the Forest

      by Kateryna Mikhalitsyna

      This is the third picture book from the informative series about trees by Ukrainian writer Kateryna Mikhalitsyna and illustrator Oksana Bula. This is a story about how a grumpy badger and naughty squirrels saved the forest from the fire. Readers will also learn how spruce and larch prepare for the winter, and whether oak moss is actually a moss and why one should not burn deadwood because its not really dead. The book is also interactive: you can try and find all the firebugs hidden in the pictures, learn to distinguish different trees and make a garland in ecostyle.

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      Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
      2021

      Ukraine: From Ancient Times to the Present

      by Maria Takhtaulova, Serhiy Zhukov

      Ukraine: from Ancient Times to the Present is an express guide to the past of our country from historians Maria Takhtaulova and Sergiy Zhukov. The book can be divided into two parts. The first part contains brief information on significant historic events (settlement of the first people, the formation of Kyivan Rus, the Cossacks, etc.); the second gives a general idea of the cultural achievements of Ukrainians (language, architecture, traditions, and much more). A simple presentation of information and many illustrations make the book ideal for familiarizing children with the history and culture of Ukraine, as well as contribute to the interest in this science.

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      Encyclopaedias (Children's/YA)
      2017

      Loudly, softly, in a whisper

      by Art studio Agrafka

      An educational picture book about hearing, sound and silence, about voice and silence, about the sounds we hear and don't hear. About how important it is to listen and hear each other. This book will "sound" for you with many voices, bright colors, interesting facts and expressive visual images. Immerse yourself in the world of different sounds symbolically reproduced on paper - the world of noise and music, sounds of the city and nature; find out which sound is the oldest in the universe, who has the best hearing and which piece of music is the quietest. How deaf people communicate and how important silence is in our lives. Readers will get to know the main characters, who will guide them page by page through the entire book.

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2021

      Hide and Seek with Death.

      by Anna Yamchuk, Anna Tarnovetska, Natalia Herasym, Mykola Kushnir

      The plot is based on the real-life stories of four witnesses of the Holocaust, who experienced it as children. Elements of a graphic novel are used to reflect the drama of the events in the book. To better understand all the nuances of this difficult topic, young readers are assisted by special guides (through the pages of the book), whose roles are played by real-life people Erika Grigorchuk and Oleksiy Fisyuk. The guides are young men and women currently living in a town of Chernivtsi, where the historical events took place. A large group of editors and illustrators worked on the book, and famous Chernivtsi artist Anna Tarnovetska is among them.

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2021

      Letters from the Lighthouse

      by Tania Postavna

      This book is full of daily magic, adventures, kindness, and dreams. It contains seven incredible stories written in letters from the Maldives, Chile, Iceland, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Greece. Six children, the characters of this book, describe their lives and the places where they live; they share their experiences and thoughts; they write about their relationship with their parents and their dreams. These children have a lot in common, despite the fact that they live in different countries and cultures. These letters did not reach their recipients, but they were found by Jerome, the old postmaster of post at the lighthouse, and the seventh story is his. This book is a teleport to different continents, an opportunity to find friends and understand that we are not alone in our worries.

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      Personal & social issues: body & health (Children's/YA)
      2017

      I See That

      by Art studio Agrafka

      This is an educational picture book about sight from the creative studio Agrafka. It is about both things we can see with our own eyes and the mysterious, invisible to the human eye. This book is also about microscopes and telescopes that help us see incredibly small or extremely distant things. It explains that for better eyesight some people need glasses, while those who can’t see at all need a special system and symbols. By reading this book, you will learn how birds and animals see the world, how artists create optical illusions, and about the many millions of hues the human eye can perceive. I See That won the 2018 Bologna Ragazzi Award, the most prestigious award in children’s literature, in the award’s non-fiction category. I See That has been awarded with a Bronze Medal Stiftung Buchkunst in 2019.

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      Children's & YA
      2019

      The Book of Horrors: A Collection of Scary Stories

      by Volodymyr Arenev, Mia Marchenko, Larysa Andrievska, Ivanka Kravtsova, Yozha Kotsun, Slava Svitova, Yuriy Nikitinsky, Maria Artemenko. Illustrations by Irena Panarina

      “The Book of Horrors” is a collection of scary stories by modern Ukrainian children’s writers. In the dark dark room, on the black black shelf, there is a scary scary book…. It contains eight thrilling stories about various mystical, sometimes otherworldly and utterly unexpected events and creatures, including children. If you’re not afraid yet, then meet Mia Marchenko’s black tulips (‘The Black Tulips’), Volodymyr Arenev’s inhabitants of the abandoned attic (‘The Wheeled Coffin’), Larysa Andriyevska’s ugly monsters (‘Monsters from under the Child’s Bed’), Ivanka Kravtsova’s bleeding cuckoo bird (‘Cuckoo’), Yozha Kotsun’s beasts (‘The Beasts’), Slava Svitova’s pygmy witch (‘The Pygmy Witch’), Yuriy Nikitinsky’s ghosts (‘Ghost of Olya and the Real boy named Kostyk’) and Maria Artemenko’s philosopher worms (‘This Fairy Tale is not about an Apple’).

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      Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's/YA)
      2017

      ВОЛЯ: The WILL Part 1

      by A group of Authors

      A graphic steampunk novel in the genre of alternative history whose story unfolds in the heyday of the Ukrainian State in 1918.

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2018

      ВОЛЯ: The WILL Part 2

      by A group of Authors

      A graphic steampunk novel in the genre of alternative history whose story unfolds in the heyday of the Ukrainian State in 1918.

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2017

      The Day of All Squirrels

      by Irena Karpa

      A kind and playful fairy tale about ecology, friendship, nature, freedom and dream. Full of adventure and humor, thrilling turns and complex situations, this is a story about what is valuable in life and how important it is to be able to fight for your rights, regardless of who you are: an adult, a child or a forest animal. The book teaches us to care about nature and incites us not to litter in the forests and on the streets. You will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. It is perfect for both children and those who think they have already grown up.

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2018

      Super Agent 000. The Mystery of the Golden Kangaroo

      by Lesia Voronyna

      As any superhero, the invincible Super Agent 000 untangles the most mysterious crimes, defeats the most cunning enemies and saves the world from the otherwise inevitable destruction. The ironic detective story by the modern Ukrainian writer Lesya Voronyna has gone legendary. Full of jokes, irony and funny clues, the adventures of Hryts Mamay will be appealing to not only children and teenagers, but also their parents, if they happened to miss the first, now rare, editions of the book.

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      Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
      2020

      Reactors Do Not Explode. A Brief History of the Chornobyl Disaster

      by Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Stanislav Dvornytskyi

      Chornobyl is not only a city or a nuclear power plant but also an Exclusion Zone, a tragedy and a symbol. This book aims to explain the tragic events to people who were born after it happened, so that “Chornobyl” is not only a word by which Ukraine is recognized but also a historical experience worth acknowledging. The event is shown in the book through several dimensions: technical, emotional, natural, and political. The authors are using both verbal and visual communication to tell the story of a large-scale tragedy in a simple way, yet still able to provoke emotions. The book brings up the topics of responsibility and the cost of human life; “the right to know”; heroics; totalitarian regimes; ecology.

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2018

      Varta in the Game

      by Natalia Matolinets

      Dark sorceress Varta Tarnovetska used to live a quiet life in Lviv: she worked in a cafe, hanged out with her friends and occasionally clashed with light sorcerers. But everything changed, when the Game began in the city. Power in the Central European Conglomerate for the next century is at stake of this decisive battle. Despite all her efforts, Varta can’t stay away from this violent competition. The marks waiting for sorcerers’ blood, the story of a demon and the secret of what happened a hundred years ago are lying ahead of her. The game is on...

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      Picture books, activity books & early learning material
      2016

      Bear Does Not Want to Sleep

      by Oksana Bula

      Like every year, at the end of the autumn the bear was going to go to sleep. He doing his final preparations and was waiting for Tukoni, who was to help him to settle down in his den. However, the bear met the bison, who told him about animals who do not hibernate and have fun in the winter forest . And how can the bear go to sleep after this?

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      Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's/YA)
      2021

      40 Rules to Survive the Apocalypse

      by Yuri Nikitinsky

      What to do if there was an explosion, zombies are wandering around, viruses or aliens are creeping, and the Angry Cockroach is crunching the on the cookies left in the kitchen? First and foremost, you should not panic and be prepared. Of course, the cases are very different - real and fictional - but the advice in this book is always valid and useful for each of them. So if you are seriously prepared, no apocalypse will get you!

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2020

      Arrow of the Steppe

      by Maria Artemenko

      What toys and dreams could a Sarmatian girl who lived many centuries ago in the Black Sea steppes have? For example, to tame a wild horse. And to shoot bows as accurately as her mother, a glorious warrior. The main thing is to save a willful horse from a devastating storm in time and manage to hide in her tiny house. The story of Fati from the Sarmatian tribe is about character, struggle with fears, friendship, losses and discoveries.

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      Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
      2019

      Sapienses

      by Volodymyr Arenev

      This is the world of the distant future – comfortable, bright and full of hopes and expectations. This is Kyiv, in which kids fly to school on jetpacks and study at the School of Space Travelling. And this is Mykhailo Neborak, an ordinary schoolboy who on one April day meets Oleksandr Nenarok, a new boy in his school. And this newbie knows a lot of strange and dangerous things about this beautiful and comfortable world of the future… ‘Sapiences’ is a sci-fi novel for teenagers set in Kyiv of 2178. One of the protagonists, Oleksandr Nenarok, has two moms, a necromant grandpa and an iron heart. Dangerous adventures, interplanetary voyages and fighting against galactic thugs – the readers will find all these in the book.

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      Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
      2020

      The Majestic Cathedrals of Ukraine

      by Zirka Menzatiuk

      This book will bring you closer to heaven. To the light. To beauty. It will help to open distant pages of history and reveal the secrets of sacred art. The temples that rise on the territory of Ukraine, built in different times, in different styles hide many secrets. Many legends are connected with their construction, and many miracles happened during the building and restoration. A special feature of the publication is that an ordinary schoolboy became interested in the history of the temples. He decided to tell about them on his Instagram blog to attract the attention of as many followers as possible. Did he succeed? Read it, take a look at the blog — and find out what happened.

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