
Kitabu cha Watoto cha Dunia kwa Kila Nchi kwenye Sayari
Kutoka Kiafar hadi Kizulu: Kitabu cha picha “Mimi ni mdogo?” kimetafsiriwa katika lugha zaidi ya 200 tangu kuchapishwa kwake.
Hadithi na mwandishi Philipp Winterberg inapatikana kwa kila nchi duniani katika angalau lugha moja ya kitaifa. Ni kitabu cha watoto cha kwanza duniani kinachojumuisha dunia nzima.
Katika “Mimi ni mdogo?” wasomaji wadogo na wa zamani wanaandamana na msichana Tamia kwenye safari iliyojaa maajabu. Pamoja wao wanagundua kuwa ukubwa ni uhusiano na kwamba Tamia ni sawa tu jinsi alivyo. "Anashangilia" anahukumu jarida la biashara Eselsohr; "ajabu kwa familia ya lugha mbili, na chekechea," anasema Börsenblatt na jarida la mapitio ya kitabu-Mapitio ya maoni ya huruma ya Kirkus "kwa watoto wanaofurahia kuangalia kurasa juu ya viumbe kamili na vya kichawi na maelezo ya kisasa [...] ilisemwa katika maneno rahisi na ya kujishughulisha na ya picha za kufikiria."
Watafsiri zaidi ya 500 tayari wameshiriki Kitabu cha Watoto wa Dunia. Wakati mwingine uchunguzi ulichukua miezi, "ilinibidi nitafute mtafsiri wa Tibet kwa karibu mwaka," anasema Winterberg. Kitabu sasa kinapatikana pia katika maelfu ya mchanganyiko wa lugha, kama vile Kiarabu-Kitagalogi au Kireno-Kitigrinya - lugha inayozungumzwa Uhabeshi na Eritrea, ambapo mwandiko wake unakumbusha michoro ya watoto.
Katika miaka na miongo ijayo Mradi wa Kitabu cha Watoto wa Dunia utaendelea kukua. Lengo ni kutafsiri hatua kwa hatua;- “Mimi ni mdogo?” katika lugha zaidi ya 500.


"This is baby’s favorite book!" —Feedback from the United States
"Mia figlia di due anni e mezzo è entusiasta dei disegni bellissimi e dei colori. Apprezza anche le vicende di una bimba nè grande nè piccola ma giusta così." —Feedback from Italy
"Muy buen libro infantil. Dinámico, orgánico, perfecto para aprender en romaji. De fácil lectura y con una protagonista realmente encantadora" —Feedback from Mexico
"Beautifully illustrated and cleverly written." —Feedback from Australia
"My three year olds love it and the story’s concept will grow with them for several years to come making it a keeper." —Feedback from the U.S.
"A nuestra hija le ha encantado. [...] Estamos muy satisfechos con la compra." —Feedback from Spain
"The text and illustrations [...] expand your view of the world." -- El País, daily newspaper in Spain
"Whenever I have time to read to her, she wants this book. And she repeats words. That’s insanely cute." —Feedback from Canada
"Muito legal esse livro. Singelo, divertido e relacionado ao universo da criança. Bom pra desenvolver o vocabulário. As ilustrações são lindas. Meu filho adorou." —Feedback from Brazil
"You are small or big depending on with what you relate to. A simple cute book which exactly portrays this message." —Feedback from India
"I got this book to read with my granddaughters, one from the US and one from Portugal. It is so incredibly cute! They loved it, and I did too. I highly recommend this book!" —Feedback from the U.S.
"Ce petit livre est tout ce que j’aime !!! Le graphisme, les couleurs, tout y est magnifiquement soigné, poétique et charmant !!! [...] Une merveille de beauté et de magie à ne pas louper !!!" —Feedback from France
"Written in a very simple way but with a profound message for both adults and kids." —Feedback from the United States
"My little boy loves this as a bedtime story. It’s colourful and quirky. [...] I thought it would be uninteresting to a child, to be read to in another language, but he asks for ’Bin ich klein’ and it melts my heart!" —Feedback from the United Kingdom
"I LOVED it. Lots of repetition to help ’lil ones get used to structure and words! [...] Most importantly, it sends a good message about how being unique and different is good."—ESL Carissa Blog
"This is done with simplicity at its finest. The art is whimsical, the message is clear and most of all my grandson loves it. I would recommend this book to any child provider as part of their reading library." —Feedback from the U.S.
"for children who enjoy lingering over pages full of magical creatures and whimsical details [...] told in simple and engaging words and imaginative pictures.”—Kirkus Reviews
"This has been my daughter’s favourite book since she was 4 months old. The sentences are nice and short so she doesn’t lose interest in the pictures while I’m reading each page." —Feedback from the UK
"I got this book when my daughter was 3 years old. I used to read it for her in English and Arabic. Now, she’s 6 and still loves this book." —Feedback from the United States
"We are in love with this book! [...] I highly recommend this book"—Feedback from the United States
"[...] readers will emerge from this book feeling slightly more confident about themselves—whatever their size."—ForeWord Clarion Reviews


1 000+ maktaba
200+ lugha
📖 Сара схәыҷума? (Abkhaz / Abxaz / Abkhazian)
📖 Meyɛ ketewa anaa? (Akan / Twi / Asante)
📖 我细汉系? (Chinese / Min Chinese / Amoy Dialect)
📖 Amʊn naa saa gʊŋɛ aà? (Anii / Gisida / Bassila / Baseca / Akpe)
📖 هل أنا صغيرة؟ (Egyptian Arabic / Masri)
📖 هل أنا صغيرة؟ (Gulf Arabic / el-lahja el-Khalijiyya)
📖 هل أنا صغيرة؟ (Levantine Arabic)
📖 واش أنا صغيرة؟ (Maghrebi Arabic / Moroccan Dialect / Darija)
📖 انا زشعتا؟ (Aramaic / Eastern Aramaic / Mandaic)
📖 Дун гьитlинайищ? (Avar / Avaric)
📖 ¿Jisk’asktti? (Aymara / Central Aymara)
📖 Mən balacayam? (Azerbaijani)
📖 Awak tyang cenik nggih? (Balinese / Bali)
📖 Wala ne ka dɔgɔ wa? (Bambara)
📖 Bin i kloa? (Bavarian / Austro-Bavarian)
📖 Ці я маленькая? (Belarusian)
📖 Sadit ba ako? (Bicolano / Bikol / Coastal Bikol / Bikol Naga)
📖 Mi mi smol? (Bislama / Bichelamar)
📖 Ha gwir eo on bihan ? (Breton)
📖 ငါက သေးငယ်လား? (Burmese / Myanmar)
📖 我個子小嗎? (Cantonese / Yue Chinese)
📖 Ami e pikinoti? (Cape Verdean Creole)
📖 Ndine mwana? (Chewa / Chichewa / Nyanja)
📖 我小吗? (Chinese / Mandarin Chinese [Simplified])
📖 我細小嗎? (Chinese / Mandarin Chinese [Traditional])
📖 Eiu socu chjuca ? (Corsican)
📖 Jesam li ja mala? (Croatian)
📖 آیا من کوچک هستم؟ (Dari / Afghan Persian / Farsi)
📖 އަހަރެން ކުޑަތަ؟ (Dhivehi / Maldivian)
📖 Kuɔɔr ë ɣɛɛn? (Dinka / South Dinka)
📖 Ĉu mi estas malgranda? (Esperanto)
📖 Kas ma olen väike? (Estonian)
📖 Ako ba ay maliit? (Filipino / Tagalog)
📖 Olenko minä pieni? (Finnish)
📖 Je suis petite, moi ? (French)
📖 Bihidefin ihidefich kleiheidefein? (Secret Language / German Chicken Language (Hühnersprache))
📖 Bilewin ilewich kleilewein? (Secret Language / German Spoon Language (Löffelsprache))
📖 I uarereke ngai? (Gilbertese / Kiribati)
📖 Chemichĩ piko che? (Guarani / Paraguayan Guarani)
📖 શું હું નાની છું? (Gujarati)
📖 Eske mwen piti? (Haitian Creole)
📖 Owami omuṱiṱi po? (Herero / Otjiherero)
📖 Ka gamay sa akon? (Hiligaynon)
📖 Lau be maraki a? (Hiri Motu / Police Motu / Pidgin Motu)
📖 Ammuk-za kappish? (Hittite / Nesite)
📖 Bassit nak kadi? (Ilocano / Ilokano)
📖 Apakah aku kecil? (Indonesian)
📖 An bhfuil mé beag? (Irish Gaelic)
📖 Mi likkle? (Jamaican Patois / Jamaican Creole)
📖 Мен кішкентаймын ба? (Kazakh)
📖 ¿In nitz’ na? (K’iche’ / Quiché)
📖 Mukele fioti? (Kongo / Kikongo)
📖 Ez biçûk im? (Kurdish / Northern Kurdish / Kurmanji)
📖 من بچووکم؟ (Kurdish / Central Kurdish / Sorani)
📖 Мен кичинекейминби? (Kyrgyz)
📖 ڪيا مئين ننڍڙي هان؟ (Southern Lahnda / Siraiki / Seraiki / Saraiki)
📖 Bünn ick lüdderk? (Low German / Emslandic)
📖 Ne katshutshu? (Luba-Katanga / Luba-Shaba / Kiluba)
📖 Ndi mutono? (Luganda / Ganda)
📖 Sinn ech kleng? (Luxembourgish)
📖 की हम छोट छी? (Maithili / Bihari)
📖 Би бяцхан гэж үү? (Mongolian)
📖 Da li sam ja mala? (Montenegrin)
📖 Oning nga duwo? (Nauruan / Nauru)
📖 Ban ik latj? (North Frisian)
📖 Toho do ahu geleng? (Northern Batak / Pak-Pak Dairi)
📖 Ngimncane na? (Northern Ndebele / Zimbabwean Ndebele)
📖 Na ke o monyenyane? (Northern Sotho / Sepedi / Pedi)
📖 Er eg hjokk? (Nynorn / Norn)
📖 Ngame omushona? (Oshiwambo / Oshindonga Dialect)
📖 Æццæй, æз чысыл дæн? (Ossetian / Ossete / Ossetic)
📖 Mi ta chikitu? (Papiamento / Papiamentu)
📖 آیا زه کوچنې یم؟ (Pashto / Pukhto)
📖 Bin ich glee? (Pennsylvania Dutch / Pennsylvania German)
📖 من کوچیکم؟ (Persian / Farsi)
📖 Sou pequena? (Brazilian Portuguese)
📖 Serei eu pequena? (Portuguese (Portugal))
📖 Asma līkuta? (Prussian / Baltic Prussian)
📖 ¿Uchuy kanichu? (Quechua / Southern Quechua / Cusco Dialect)
📖 काँई मैं छोटी हूं? (Rajasthani / Shekhawati Dialect)
📖 Sun jau pitschna? (Romansh / Romansch)
📖 Mbi yéké kété? (Sango / Sangho)
📖 So pidda? (Sardinian / Sard)
📖 Um A wee? (Scots / Lowland Scots)
📖 A bheil mi beag? (Scottish Gaelic)
📖 A ke monnye? (Setswana / Tswana)
📖 Mon pti mwan? (Seychellois Creole / Kreol seselwa)
📖 我很小吗? (Shanghainese / Hu / Wu Chinese)
📖 Sugnu nica iu? (Sicilian / Calabro-Sicilian)
📖 ڇا آئون ننڍي آهيان؟ (Sindhi)
📖 මම පොඩි ද? (Sinhala / Sinhalese)
📖 Ali sem majhna? (Slovenian / Slovene)
📖 Ngimncinyane yini? (Ndebele / Southern Ndebele / Transvaal Ndebele)
📖 Na ke monyane? (Sesotho [Lesotho] / Southern Sotho)
📖 Na ke monyane? (Sesotho [South Africa] / Southern Sotho)
📖 Gou iq lwi? (Zhuang / Standard Zhuang)
📖 Ngimncane? (Swazi / Swati / siSwati)
📖 Bin ich chlii? (Swiss German)
📖 Mea naʻinaʻi au? (Tahitian / Reo Tahiti)
📖 我個頭小嗎? (Taiwanese / Taiwanese Mandarin / Guoyu)
📖 Nec ṭṭamezyant? (Tamazight / Standard Moroccan Berber / Amazigh)
📖 நான் சிறியவளாக இருக்கிறேனா? (Tamil)
📖 నేను చిన్నగా ఉన్నానా? (Telugu)
📖 Ha’u ki’ik ka lae? (Tetum / Tetun Dili)
📖 ང་ཆུང་ཆུང་རེད་འདུག་གམ། (Tibetan)
📖 Mi liklik? (Tok Pisin / New Guinea Pidgin)
📖 U ri ndzi ntsanana? (Tsonga)
📖 Au e foliki? (Tuvaluan / Tuvalu)
📖 Sym ja małka? (Upper Sorbian)
📖 مەن كىچىكمۇ؟ (Uyghur / Uighur)
Kuhusu Mwandishi
Philipp B. Winterberg M.A. alisoma Sayansi ya Mawasiliano, Saikolojia na Sheria. Anaishi Berlin na anapenda kuwa na sifa/sura nyingi: Alienda kuruka na mwavuli nchini Namibia, akatafakari nchini Thailand, na akavuka na papa na stingray huko Fiji na Polynesia.
Vitabu vya Philipp Winterberg vinaanzisha mtazamo mpya juu ya mandhari muhimu kama urafiki, akili na furaha. Wanasoma katika lugha na nchi duniani kote. Soma zaidi...