On the initiative of the Embassy of Ukraine in Lithuania and the Ukrainian integration center “Malva”, 54 titles of 64 books in Ukrainian were donated to the public library of Šiauliai city municipality. These are books for children and young people.
The number of books in the Ukrainian language is increasing in the library
April 29 The handover of books to the library took place at the “Šaltinėlis” branch (Trakų St. 20A). The meeting was attended by library director Irena Žilinskienė and head of Šaltinėlis branch Rita Božienė, director of Ukrainian integration center “Malva” Sergejus Akhmetovas, representatives Žana Tolstikova, Olena Lastivka, Elena Muzychenko.
The library is happy to have new, Ukrainian literature on its bookshelves and to provide more opportunities for Ukrainian children and youth to read. Ukrainians living in the city of Šiauliai will be able to find all these books in the Šaltinėlis branch of the public library of Šiauliai City Municipality. In total, this branch of the library has almost 300 Ukrainian books in 200 titles.
The books were brought from the city of Kyiv
The books came from the Ukrainian city of Kiev. All books are published by A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA publishing house. A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA is located in the heart of Kyiv and is considered not only the leading publishing house of children’s literature in Ukraine, but also one of the most famous in Eastern Europe.
The publishing house also opens the space for adolescent literature. And it all started with the release of the first “Harry Potter” book with a unique Ukrainian cover, which, by the way, can be seen on Joan Rowling’s own desktop in a TV interview on the occasion of the release of the first book.
Thanks to famous illustrators and translators, A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA publishes highly artistic books that combine original text with high-quality polygraphy. After all, since the founding of the publishing house, a lot of time has been devoted to the quality of publications.
By the way, in 1992, the “Ukrainian alphabet” became the first edition of “A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GY”. Since then, Ababagalamzh books have won prestigious book competitions and received top reviews from celebrities around the world.
The library thanks the Embassy of Ukraine in Lithuania for finding resources in such a difficult time and helping to replenish the library fund with Ukrainian books, and the Ukrainian integration center “Malva” for active and close cooperation.
Šiauliai City Municipality Public Library information
Photos are from the library archive
