LOTE Books
The State Library of New South Wales has collections of books in 42 community languages which we can request on your behalf or as a bulk loan for an extended period. This is a free service.
We currently have the following items available for loan, for more information click on the linked titles to take you to the catalogue record.
Arabic
Arabic language children's books
Yāsmīn wa-al-waḥs
al-Ḥirbāʼ tatasābaq = Chameleon races
Hip, hop Catherine Hnatov
ʻAzīzatī ḥadīqat al-ḥayawān = Dear zoo / Rod Campbell
Arabic language adult books
Nāy : riwāyah
Ṭibṭāb al-jannah : riwāyah / Hānī Naqshabandī.
Zaman al-qahr : riwāyah mustawḥāh min aḥdāth ḥaqīqīyah / His
Fī ẓilāl ṭāwūs malik : riwāyah / Ḥammūdī ʻAbd Muḥsin
Ḥattá raḥīl al-rūḥ = Till the last breath / Dūrjūy Dāttā / Durjoy Datta ; tarjamat Aḥmad Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn.
Chinese
Chinese language children's books
Xiao ying xiong Peixi = Percy the hero / created by Britt Allcroft
Xiao qi e he xiao bing shan = The story of little penguin and small glacier / Luo Yin, Du Du wen ; Luo Yin tu ; [Mei] Sidifenni Chen yi.
Hao tu zi Ban Ji qi yu ji = Good rabbit Ban Ji / zhu zuo Dai Wei ; Ying yi Tan Junde ; hui tu Tulip Game U.S.A. Inc.
a sha bei qi fu / Gao Dayong wen ; Jin Yongzhen tu ; Zheng Xiaoying yi.
Chinese language adult books
Ge er men / Zhang Disheng zhu.
Shui hu mi ma. Zhaojiasanlang zhu. Juan er, Ying xiong pai pai zuo /
i hu mi ma. Zhaojiasanlang zhu. Juan yi, Jiu tuan shang liang shan /
Gelin tong hua quan ji Grimm's fairy tales / [yuan zhu, Gelin xiong di] ; Kang Ying, Zhou Zheng yan bo.
Chinese language audio books
Ping dan sheng huo [Hai Yan zhu]
Zhong hua dian gu gu shi
Zhonghua Song ci 300 shou song du Beijing hong da yi tai wen hua fa zhan you xian gong si zhi zuo.
ng yang ren min guang bo dian tai li shi lu yin. Di 1 - 10 ji, Su Wenmao xiang sheng zuo pin jing xuan
German
German language adult books
Seeräubermoses / Kirsten Boie ; mit Bildern von Barbara Scholz.
Das Beste-Freundinnen-Buch / Mirabell Eckert.
Der Wortschatz / Elias Vorpahl ; illustrationen, Julia Marie Stolba.
Wellenglitzern : ein Ostsee-Roman / Marie Merburg.
Sisis letzte reise : historischer kriminalroman / Uwe Klausner.
German language audio books
Mein grosses Buch der Lieder Gisela Stottele.
Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig Christine Nöstlinger ; gelesen von Stefan Kaminski, [mit Musik von Jan-Peter Pflug] Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig Christine Nöstlinger ; gelesen von Stefan Kaminski, [mit Musik von Jan-Peter Pflug]
loss zucker : eine Online-Omi sagt, wie's ist / Renate Bergmann.
Kalt ist der Abendhauch / Ingrid Noll.
Voll speed / Moritz Matthies.
Hindi
Hindi language audio books
Bolatī guphā Talking cave
The Foolish crow = Bhondū kāgī / narration Saeed Jaffrey ; direction & lyrics, Shobha Viswanath ; script, Shelia Gandhi ; illustrations, Srividya Natarajan Greystroke ; music, 3 Brothers & A Violin.
Hindi language books
Paramahaṃsa, eka khoja / Śaṅkara ; anuvāda, Nīlimā Dāsa.
Meharunnisā Paraveja kī lokapriya kahāniyām̐.
Citrā Mudgala kī lokapriya kahāniyām̐ / Citrā Mudgala.
Samīpa aura samīpa / Se. Rā. Yātrī.
Mere mañca kĭ saragama : merā thiyeṭara mere gīta / Piyusha Miśrā.
Hindi language children's books
I love my dad = Mujhe ḍaiḍī se pyāra hai / Shelley Admont ; illustrated by Sonal Goyal and Sumit Sakhuja ; translated from English by Abhiranjan Kumar.
One and many / text, Indu Sreekumar ; pictures, Deepa Balsavar = Eka aura bahuta sāre / lekhana, Indu Śrīkumāra ; citra, Dīpā Balasāvara.
Busy ants = Kāmakājī cīṇṭiyām̐ / written by Kanchan Bannerjee ; illustrated by Deepa Balsavar ; Hindi translation by Poonam Srivastava Kudaisya.
The clever chicken = Catura cūzā / written by Juanga Writers' Group ; illustrated by Sugrib Kumar Juanga.
Italian
Italian language children's books
Teddy va al parco / testi di Maria Loretta Giraldo ; illustrazioni: Andrea Greppi e Maria Claudia Di Genova.
Iossa ; testo di Sam Taplin ; progetto grafico di Matt Durber ; suoni di Anthony Marks ; traduzione di Loredana Riu.
a cura di Arianna Tolin e David Tolin ; illustrazioni di Elenia Beretta.
Italian language audio books
raduzione di Giulia Arborio Mella e Claudia Valeria Letizia ; Paola Cortellesi legge.
Pippi Calzelunghe Astrid Lindgren ; Marina Massironi legge.
Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli storia vera di Enaiatollah Akbari : il lungo viaggio di un bambino afgano verso la salvezza / Fabio Geda ; Paolo Briguglia legge.
Italian language adult books
Georgiana / Deborah Begali.
Tanto cielo per niente / Maria Venturi.
Il sapore sconosciuto dell'amore / Sarah Vaughan ; traduzione di Enrica Budetta.