Online Collections for Adults
These are online collections of books in many languages for use with adults. Beneath the brief description of each resource, click on Available Languages to find those represented within the collection. Once you open an Available Languages tab you can use the ‘Find’ function on your device to locate a specific language (Control+F on PC; Command+F on Mac). Some collections have unique links listed in the Description for the various available languages.
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A book about the experience of a woman migrating to the USA from the Central African Republic. Click the links below to access the book in each of the available languages:
- Food for Thought narrated (English)
- Food for Thought (French version)
- Food for Thought (Spanish Edition)
+ Available Languages
- English
- French / Français
- Spanish / Español
+ Description
English
These printable Spanish books were developed with LESLLA learners in mind. Designed, written, and illustrated by students at the University of Granada, the books are suitable for adult learners with Spanish competency up to A1. These books can be used for home free reading programs or as classroom reading material. Click on textos más largos for longer texts or textos más breves for shorter texts.
Español
Encontrará aquí textos de lectura para adultos neolectores que aprenden a leer en español. Los libros fueron diseñados por estudiantes de asignaturas de lengua español de la Universidad de Granada para migrantes adultos con un nivel de competencia lingüística por debajo de A1, están ilustrados y tratan temas des interés para el público adulto. Los libros pueden usarse para programas de lectura en casa y también como material de clase. Hay dos secciones: textos más largos y texto más breves.
+ Available Languages
- Spanish / Español
Vermont Folklife Center: The Most Costly Journey
+ Description
This series of short graphic novels for adults are written by migrant farm workers in Vermont in Spanish and English.
+ Available Languages
- English
- Spanish / Español
+ Description
A book about the Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo, produced in bilingual format by CPIA Montagna, an adult education center in Italy. Click the links below to access the book in each of the available bilingual language pairings:
- Frida Kahlo by Huna Adelina (Italiano - Albanian)
- Frida Kahlo by Latifa Zamour (Italiano - Arabic, Moroccan)
- Frida Kahlo by Fatima Manhoor (Italiano - English)
- Frida Kahlo by Vahid Ilbeygi Sabet (Italiano - Farsi)
- Frida Kahlo by Orchidee Kokilodisabu (Italiano - Lingala)
+ Available Languages
- Italian - Albanian
- Italian - Arabic, Moroccan
- Italian - English
- Italian - Farsi / فارسی
- Italian - Lingala
+ Description
LIDA Stories provides 30 stories for adults with text and audio in several European languages and the most widely spoken immigrant and refugee languages in Europe, and in Canada and Japan.The stories are particularly relevant to migrants. The books have been produced by www.lidalearn.net/.
Books in the following languages are available on at least one of the seven country-specific sites.
+ Available Languages
- Albanian
- Amharic / Amarinja / Amharinya / አማርኛ
- Arabic / العربية
- Bengali / Bangla / বাঙালি / বাংলা
- Cantonese
- Chinese, Mandarin / 國語 / 普通话
- Dari / Persian, Afghan / دری
- Dinka
- English
- Esperanto
- French / Français
- German
- Hindi / Hindustani / हिंदी
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kinyarwanda / Ikinyarwanda / Rwandan / Rufumbira
- Korean / 한국어
- Kurdish, Central / Sorani
- Kurdish, Northern / Kurmanji
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Nepali / नेपाली / नेपाल भाषा
- Norwegian / Norsk (Bokmål)
- Norwegian / Norsk (Nynorsk)
- Oromo / Afaan Oromo / Oromiffa
- Pashto / Pashtu / پښتو
- Persian / Farsi / فارسی
- Polish / Polski
- Portuguese / Português
- Romanian
- Russian / Pусский
- Serbian / Serbo-Croatian / Srpski (Cyrillic script)
- Serbian / Serbo-Croatian / Srpski (Latin script)
- Somali / Af Soomaali
- Spanish / Español
- Swahili / Kiswahili
- Swedish / Svenska
- Tagalog
- Thai / ไทย / ภาษาไทย
- Tigrigna / Tigrinya
- Turkish / Türkçe
- Ukrainian
- Urdu /اُردُو
+ Description
A book about the Kenyan Nobel Prize winner, Wangari Muta Maathai, produced in bilingual format by CPIA Montagna, an adult education center in Italy. Click the links below to access the book in each of the available bilingual pairings:
- Wangari by Huna Adelina (Italian-Albanian)
- Wangari by Abdellah El Kherbi (Italian- Arabic, Moroccan)
- Wangari by Mantika Afroz Parsa (Italian-Bengali)
- Wangari by Fatima Manhoor (Italian-English)
- Wangari by Nganhoul Bella (Italian - Mbum Mann)
- Wangari by Precious Ekhator (Italian-Pidgin English)
- Wangari by Cristina Daniela Bobocea (Italian-Romanian)
- Wangari by Dulja Krasnic (Italian-Romany, Kosovar)
+ Available Languages
- Italian - Albanian
- Italian - Arabic, Moroccan
- Italian - Bengali / Bangla / বাঙালি / বাংলা
- Italian - English
- Italian - Mbum (Mann)
- Italian - Pidgin, Nigerian / Pidgin English, Nigerian
- Italian - Romanian
- Italian - Romany, Kosovar
+ Description
A literacy organization based in South Africa, you will find e-books for teens and adults on FunDza’s online library accessible via https://live.fundza.mobi. Genres include fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry. Readers are invited to submit their own stories for publication.
+ Available Languages
- Afrikaans
- Chichewa / Chewa / Chinyanja / Cinyanja / Nyanja
- English
- French / Français
- Lingala
- Ndebele / isiNdebele / Ndebele, Southern
- Portuguese / Português
- Setswana / Tswana
- Shona / ChiShona
- Sotho, Northern / Sepedi / Pedi
- Sotho, Southern / Sesotho
- Swahili / Kiswahili
- Swati / SiSwati
- Tsonga / Xitsonga / Changana
- Venda / Tshivenda / Tshivenḓa
- Xhosa / isiXhosa
- Zulu / isiZulu
+ Description
Simply Cracking Good Stories is a Newcastle University collaboration between creative writers, artists, and linguists for the production of original fiction books of up to 400 words for adults with lower levels of reading and often linguistic competence (below CEFR A1). The editors -- creative writer, Margaret Wilkinson, and second language acquisition specialist, Martha Young-Scholten -- work with creative writers on writing engaging texts that comprise short, single-clause sentences and use familiar vocabulary, and they work with artists for the images that accompany each book. The 15-book backlist is available free of charge in downloadable e-book form in English with some of the same books in Arabic, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Turkish. New books will be made available at low price in a variety of languages. Visit http://simplystories.org/ to order books.
+ Available Languages
- Arabic / العربية
- English
- German / Deutsch
- Italian / Italiano
- Portuguese / Português
- Turkish / Türkçe
+ Description
This health literacy resource developed with LESLLA learners in mind includes videos on health topics in eight languages. Use the wordless picture books for literacy activities in any language.
+ Available Languages
- Arabic / العربية
- Chinese, Mandarin / 國語 / 普通话
- English
- Farsi / فارسی
- Hindi / Hindustani / हिंदी
- Spanish / Español
- Tigrigna / Tigrinya
- Urdu /اُردُو
+ Description
This site promotes the development and publication of books for children in Tamil. A large number of books for children at five levels of reading are available for reading online
+ Available Languages
- Tamil