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Books to cut, fold, build and learn.

Cover: Georgian Alphabet & Heritage Monuments

Cover: Georgian Alphabet: Learn to Write

The first two books

16 Paper Models, Alphabet and Exercises

Georgian Alphabet & Heritage Monuments

Georgia is a land of stone churches and tall towers. Sixteen of them are waiting on these pages. Cut them out, fold them, glue them – and a little Georgia grows on your table. The colours look like real stone, roof tiles and metal roofs.

16 models on big colour sheets
Help on the back of every sheet: pictures of the parts, sizes, steps
For every building: a 3D view and an elevation. For every church: a page of history and legends
The Georgian alphabet: 33 letters with Asomtavruli, transliteration and writing practice
A big relief map of Georgia

For builders from about 10. Younger children build with a grown-up.

Format: 304 pages, 21.6 × 27.9 cm
Editions: English Deutsch Español Italiano 日本語Русский · soon
eBook: Coming soon

Writing workbook for beginners

Georgian Alphabet: Learn to Write

Georgian letters look like tiny curls and hooks. Here you learn them one by one. Arrows and numbers show where to start and which way to go – stroke by stroke, for all 33 letters of Mkhedruli. Then you trace, copy and practise on lines.

33 letters, each with a start point, stroke order and arrows
How it sounds, compared with English – plus Latin spelling, an example word with translation and a small picture
Tracing, copying from a model, review pages, words, certificate
Four-line guides: top, middle, base and bottom line

For adults and teenagers. You don’t need to know anything yet.

Format: 60 pages, A4
Editions: English Deutsch Español 日本語中文Русский · soon
eBook: Coming soon

Free sheet

The Georgian Alphabet

All 33 letters on one page, each with its sound written the way English readers say it. Look at a letter, then say it out loud. No sign-up.

Open the sheet (PDF)Sheet (EPUB)

The PDF opens in your browser. The EPUB works in Apple Books, Kobo, tolino and Google Play Books. On Kindle, use Send to Kindle. Where English has no exact match for a sound, the sheet marks it with ≈. The full alphabet book comes later, with a one-time gift code.

Coming soon

Fairy tales for children
from around the world

Children’s books with fairy tales from many countries and traditions – not only from Georgia.

About Chiora Books

Chiora Books makes books for curious people of every age: paper models to cut and build, workbooks to learn from, and fairy tales for children.

Our first two books are about Georgia: its churches, its towers and its letters. The models, drawings and instructions are our own designs. We simplified the real buildings, so not every detail is to scale.