January 11, 2007

Auto Bild Latvija

Auto Bild is Europe’s largest car magazine and in conjunction with German based publisher “Axel Springer” Santa first published the Latvian version of Auto Bild in May 2004. Auto Bild Latvija is published monthly and has a print run of 15,000. Apart from the current cover a PDF version of the magazine is not yet available.

Auto Bild is also published in Estonia and 28 other countries.

January 08, 2007

Jautrā grāmata (The Storybook Dictionary)

American artist and writer and world’s best-selling children’s book author, Richard Scarry wrote and illustrated over 300 books, selling over 300 million copies worldwide. Thanks to a team lead by Baiba Vītoliņa (Sweden) the Latvian version “Jautrā grāmata” was published in 1974 (printed in Portugal) bringing joy to many emigre Latvian kids.

You have to remember that this was no easy task without the help of a personal computer which only came a decade later.

Click on any of the images below to view several pages from this book.

    

This book has been out of print for many years, but efforts are underway to get this reprinted again in Latvia.