In honour of UNESCO’s World Book Day, Solomon Ratt offers this video of his own Cree translation of Philipp Winterberg’s Am I Small? “A world children’s book for every country on the planet.”
Winterberg’s website offers a list of over 200 languages that already have their own editions. The book is now also available in thousands of language combinations, such as Arabic-Tagalog or Portuguese-Tigrinya.
On Amazon, you will find over 200 editions, in over 200 different languages, but here’s a link to the one in Cree, to help speed up the hunt!)
Winterberg expresses a wish that the book will eventually be offered in over 500 languages. I hope that message gets through to the Dené-Sułine Early Childhood Educators I spoke with this week. Here’s a book ready and waiting for your help to prepare a new translation, and it’s perfect for talking to very little kids about big and small!
