New Baby gifts for Ukrainian families
Welcome a new baby into the world with a gift that grows with them.
Why a book, for this moment
When a new baby arrives, family and friends bring meaningful gifts to celebrate. For diaspora families, the moment is bittersweet. There's joy at the new arrival, but also worry about whether this child will grow up speaking the family's heritage language. A bilingual wordbook is the perfect 'welcome' gift: it's a quiet promise that this child will be raised connected to both sides of their family.
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.
A newborn won't read for two years, but the parents will start reading aloud immediately. A bilingual book signals that you take their bicultural identity seriously from day one.
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 New Baby gift for a Ukrainian family?
Most new baby 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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