BBC Learning - Seeking Refuge Series: Ali's Story - a young refugee from Afghanistan talks about their experience of leaving their country of origin with their family

This link is to an American site comprising a selection of books suitable for children in Primary phase, all for free.  Each book can be read on screen and there's an audio narration too.  You can choose in which language to have the audio narration - the list includes Arabic and Farsi.  Note that not all books are available with audio narration in all languages.  Note also that some titles may be more accessible by an American audience eg there's a book called "It's Fall" about autumn and another about "ladybugs" where in the UK we'd call them 'ladybirds'.    

A collection of resources curated by Highland One World to help facilitate conversations, support learners' emotional wellbeing and action ideas on how to respond to conflict. The materials have been gathered on a padlet and content has been posted for all ages.

Harry Potter books available to read online for free from Pottermore Publishing

Available for free, Badger Books have translated and published online six dual language English–Ukrainian eBook PDFs for schools and families.

Range of books suitable for younger readers/bedtime stories.  Currently available for free in pdf format from KidKiddos.

Polilino is a digital book service which is being made available for free to Ukrainian families who are here in the UK as refugees.  Some of the free books are audio-enabled.  They are suitable for younger children.

Recipes shared by young people who now live in Leeds but who came to the UK as refugees. Useful source of ideas for anyone who teaches Food Tech.

Large collection of titles available for free as audio books. Very good selection for older children.

Extensive collection of 'foreign literature' including titles such as 'All My Sons', 'Jane Eyre', '1984', 'Lord of the Flies' and 'The Catcher in the Rye'.  All available for free as audio books.

Organisation that runs community aid projects for different groups who are in need of support. See in particular the project for schools on Afghanistan and the work with people from Ukraine.

Collection includes downloadable mats comprising everyday phrases in English with Ukrainian or Russian translations, depending on which mat you choose. Only down side is the use of stereotypical images on some of the mats - luckily not an issue on the Ukrainian one.

Organised by Grade (Year group), a collection of teaching resources in Ukrainian for subjects like maths, science and Ukrainian literature.  May be useful to parents who want their child to continue with their studies in first language outside of school hours. 

Access to a downloadable PDF of 'Animal Farm' in Ukrainian

Full text in translation

Lots of texts available here for free, read online (you can't download).  In order to see the selection, and if you don't read Ukrainian, allow your browser to translate the page into English after clicking on the link and then go to "Foreign Literature" for the full list of titles available. There is a page for Shakespeare texts William Shakespeare — full texts of works. List of works in the library (ukrlib.com.ua) for example. Be aware that the list is organised alphabetically using Ukrainian phonics so things might not be in the place you'd normally expect eg James Joyce is in the same place as Charles Dickens. Some titles have not translated perfectly either eg "Much ado about nothing" is "A lot of hype from nothing" and some author's names might be spelled differently eg Mark Haddon has become Mark Geddon, author of that well-known novel "Mysterious night dog incident" but it's a big collection and it's available free.

Graded readers with audio in a range of languages, including Ukrainian, Russian and Kurdish Sorani. To get the full list of languages, scroll to the bottom of the 'more languages' list and click on 'more languages'

The Hampshire School Library Service has an eBook and AudioBook platform called Sora.  This includes 136 titles in Ukrainian.  Schools with an SLA with the School Library Service can give a login to each of their pupils which can then be used to access the books at school and at home. If you are a school and you don't have an SLA, contact Hampshire School Library Service (hants.gov.uk) to make enquiries about getting one.