Christmas gifts for Ukrainian families
The biggest gift moment of the year, for families of every background.
Why a book, for this moment
Christmas is the universal December gift moment, even for non-religious diaspora families, it's the time when everyone shops for the children in their lives. For bilingual families, a heritage-language book is a meaningful way to celebrate both the holiday traditions of the host country and the language of the family's roots.
For Ukrainian families raising children in Poland, Germany, Czechia, Canada and the United States, the worry underneath the gift-buying is usually the same one: whether this child will still speak the language when they are ten, or whether it will fade the way it does in most families by the second generation. A book helps most when it is the language actually spoken at home.
While the toys pile up under the tree, a beautiful bilingual book stands out as the gift that says 'I see who you are.'
Мої перші 100 слів
Meine ersten 100 Wörter
Ukrainisch and Deutsch
- 100 first words across 10 themes
- Hand-painted watercolour by the artist Digitalartsi
- Latin transliteration under every word
- Board format, 8.5 by 8.5 inches, 26 pages
- Every word cross-checked against dialect dictionaries
Also available as Ukraiński and Polski .
Common questions
What is a good Christmas gift for a Ukrainian family?
Most christmas gifts are clothes, sweets or money, and none of them are still around a year later. A bilingual Ukrainian wordbook goes into the family library and gets read at bedtime for years, which is a different kind of present entirely.
What if the parents cannot read the script?
Every word carries a Latin transliteration underneath, so a parent who never learned to read Cyrillic can still read the book aloud and be understood. That was the reason Kipiku exists.
Can I send this across borders?
Yes. Books print on demand inside each Amazon marketplace, so an order placed from one country is printed and posted locally in the destination country. No international postage, no customs. Readers of the Ukrainian books are mostly in Poland, Germany, Czechia, Canada and the United States.
How accurate is the Ukrainian?
Every word is cross-checked against Ukrainian dictionaries and carries its own confidence score, visible on the word pages. The books have not been through a full native-speaker editorial review, so corrections from readers are welcome and earn a free corrected copy.
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