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Books to build, learn and dream.

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Cover: Georgian Alphabet & Heritage Monuments Cover: Georgian Alphabet: Learn to Write

The first titles

Cover: Georgian Alphabet & Heritage Monuments

16 Paper Models, Alphabet and Exercises

Georgian Alphabet & Heritage Monuments

Georgia is a land of churches and towers: high in the Caucasus, on rocks above rivers, in old royal cities. This book brings sixteen famous buildings to your home – as colour cutting sheets with real stone surfaces, tiles and metal roofs. Cut out, fold, glue: step by step you create your own little Georgia.

  • 16 models on large colour cutting sheets
  • Building help with part pictures, sizes and steps on every back page
  • Info page with 3D view and elevation for every building
  • A page of history & legends for every church
  • The Georgian alphabet: 33 letters with Asomtavruli, transliteration and writing practice
  • Large relief map of Georgia

For model makers aged about 10 and up – younger children with help from adults.

Format
304 pages, 21.6 × 27.9 cm
eBook
Coming soon
Cover: Georgian Alphabet: Learn to Write

Learning and writing workbook for beginners

Georgian Alphabet: Learn to Write

Georgian script looks unfamiliar – with this workbook it becomes familiar. For each of the 33 letters of the alphabet (Mkhedruli), arrows and numbers show how to write it stroke by stroke. You also get the pronunciation compared with English, an example word with translation and many lines for tracing and practice.

  • 33 letters, each with start point, order and arrows
  • Pronunciation with an English comparison sound and Latin spelling
  • Example word with translation and a small picture
  • Tracing, writing with a model, reviews, words, certificate
  • Four-line guides for top, middle, base and bottom line

For adults and teenagers with no prior knowledge.

Format
60 pages, A4
eBook
Coming soon
Cover: The Georgian Alphabet – free sample

Free sample

The Georgian Alphabet

A free sample of our Georgian alphabet: the cover, an overview of all 33 letters, a short history of Georgian writing – from Asomtavruli and Nuskhuri to today’s Mkhedruli, recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage in 2016 – and the first nine letters in large size, with Latin spelling and name. No sign-up needed.

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The PDF opens right in your browser. The EPUB works in Apple Books, Kobo, tolino and Google Play Books; on Kindle, use Send to Kindle. The full version will be unlocked with a one-time gift code.

Coming soon

Children’s fairy tales
from around the world

A new part of Chiora Books: children’s books of fairy tales from many countries and traditions – not only Georgian ones.

Inside the first book:
16 buildings

One model for each – from a Svan defensive tower of the 9th–12th century to Sameba (1995–2004).

  1. Svan defensive tower9th–12th c.
  2. Narikala4th c.
  3. Gergeti14th c.
  4. Ananuri17th c.
  5. Motsameta11th c.
  6. Jvari6th/7th c.
  7. Bagrati11th c.
  8. Gelati12th c.
  9. Svetitskhoveli11th c.
  10. Sioni, Tbilisi6th/7th c.
  11. Bolnisi Sioni5th c.
  12. Alaverdi11th c.
  13. Nikortsminda11th c.
  14. Ikorta12th c.
  15. Samtavro11th c.
  16. Sameba1995–2004

About Chiora Books

Chiora Books is an international publisher of books for curious people of all ages: cut-out paper models to build, workbooks to learn from, and fairy tales from around the world for children.

The first two titles are about Georgia – its churches, towers and alphabet. The models, drawings and building instructions are original designs, simplified from the real buildings, so they are not to scale in every detail.