bilibri

The Publishing House and its history

bilibri is one of the very first publishing houses in Germany to specialize exclusively in multilingual children’s books. The company was founded in 2004 with the expressed goal of supporting bilingual children in both of their languages with children’s fiction. Our books provide linguistically inspiring designs and a wide range of illustration styles to appeal to every child’s taste. We select universal themes, such as friendship, tolerance, finding courage, facing fears, etc., to insure that our stories are understandable and interesting for native speakers of all of our target languages.

In 2025, due to our 20th anniversary, we proudly introduced a new logo made of two colorful speech bubbles, designed to represent our customers, and we’ve shortened our name from Edition bi:libri to bilibri.

Program

bilibri offers more than 55 titles, each in up to 16 different language versions.

Particularly successful is our series bilibrini – the little bilinguals for children from 3 years of age. Each softcover title provides its readers with the basic vocabulary for a particular topic (colors, clothes, zoo animals, etc.) in short, simple sentences. A word-picture strip at the bottom of each page supports the new vocabulary acquisition.

Since 2008, there has been a cooperation with NordSüd Verlag. That has allowed us to add famous characters such as The Rainbow Fish, The Little Polar Bear and Howl Owl to our program and make them available in bilingual editions for our readers.

Our titles are currently being produced in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, English, French, Italian, Kurdish/Kurmancî, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian, each in combination with German. Several titles are also available in Greek and Tigrinya.