Pagineགནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།
A free picture book in Tibetan by Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi
གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ། is a picture book in Tibetan for ages 2–8 by Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi that you can read free online in Pagine — no download, no cost.
📖 Read it free →- Language
- Tibetan
- Written by
- Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi
- Illustrated by
- Sandra McDougall, Ingrid Schechter
- Translated by
- འདབ་དྲུག Dabtruk, པཱཊ་རིག་ཌཱོཌ། Patrick Dowd, ཆུ་ཚང་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན། Chusang Sonam Rinchen
- Reading level
- ages 2–8 · preschool, kindergarten to 2nd grade · Level 1 · First words
- From
- Nepal, India
- Source
- Global Storybooks
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 3.0
- Price
- Free — read online, nothing to download
About this book
གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ། is a short illustrated picture book in Tibetan by Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi, illustrated by Sandra McDougall, Ingrid Schechter and translated by འདབ་དྲུག Dabtruk, པཱཊ་རིག་ཌཱོཌ། Patrick Dowd, ཆུ་ཚང་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན། Chusang Sonam Rinchen. It is written for ages 2–8 (Nursery–Year 1) and is graded as Level 1 · First words, so it works as a read-aloud for little ones and as practice for children learning to read in Tibetan. The book comes from Global Storybooks and is shared under an open CC BY-NC 3.0 licence, which is why it is free to read. The same story is available in 37 other languages — handy for bilingual families and classrooms (see below).
How it begins
དེ་རིང་གནམ་གཤིས་སྐམ་པོ་འདུག ཉི་མ་ཚ་པོ་འདུག རླུང་གཡུག་གི་འདུག གནམ་ངོར་སྤྲིན་པ་འཐིབ་འདུག གྲང་མོ་འདུག ཆར་པ་འབབ་ཀྱི་འདུག འབྲུག་སྐད་རྒྱག་གི་འདུག ངས་འཇའ་མཐོང་གི་འདུག གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ། — Written by Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi; Illustrated by Sandra McDougall, Ingrid Schechter; Translated by འདབ་དྲུག Dabtruk, པཱཊ་རིག་ཌཱོཌ། Patrick Dowd, ཆུ་ཚང་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན། Chusang Sonam Rinchen; Read by པད་མ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Pema Choedon.…Opening lines quoted from the openly licensed book (CC BY-NC 3.0).
This story in other languages
Reading the same story in two languages helps bilingual children connect words they already know. “གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།” is also available in:
- Afrikaans · Boek oor die weer
- Bemba · Ibuuku lya pamiceele
- Dagbani · Dabisili nahiŋgbana buku
- English · Weather book
- Ga · Je lɛ mlitsakemɔ he wolo
- Irish · An Aimsir
- Jamaican Creole · Weda buk
- Kaonde · Buuku Wankilo
- Khoekhoegowab · ǂOaǀnanumâsib ǂKhanis
- Kikuyu · Ibuku rĩa rĩera
- Kimaasai · Impukunót ó oloing’áng’e
- Kiswahili · Kitabu cha hali ya hewa
- Krio · Wɛda buk
- Luganda · Akatabo k’obudde
- Lugbarati (official orthography) · Búkù àngù mile nɨ́ rɨ̀
- Lukhonzo · Ekitabu ky’obuthuku
- Lumasaaba · Shiitabo shishiwaamba khu bwiile
- Lunda · Mukanda wa watusulu
- Lusoga · Ekitabo ekiraga embeera yobwiire
- Luvale · Mukanda wajingonde
- Mauritian Creole · Liv meteo
- Nepali · मौसमको किताब
- Nyanja · Buku ya nyengo
- Olukhayo · Esitabu Sialinga
- Oshikwanyama · Embo longhalo yomhepo
- Oshindonga · Embo lyonkalo yombepo
- Otjiherero · Embo romaukiro womuinyo weyuru
- Sesotho · Buka ya boemo ba lehodimo
- Somali · Buugi cimilida
- Spanish · El libro del clima
- Tonga · Bbuku Lyabweende Bwaluwo
- Tsonga · Buku ya Maxelo
- Tswana · Buka ya seemo sa bosa
- Turkana · Akitab Na Eboyor Akwap
- Xhosa · Incwadi yemozulu
- Yoruba · Ìwé òjò
- Zulu · Incwadi yesimo sezulu
Reading together in Tibetan
- Read it aloud first, pointing at the pictures; then let your child “read” the pictures back to you.
- Ask open questions: what happened, how did the character feel, what would you do?
- Growing up with two languages? Talk about the story in whichever language feels easiest — the understanding carries over.
See all 1 free Tibetan books by reading level → · Books in 200+ languages · 👩🏫 Assign this book to a class
Frequently asked questions
Is “གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།” free to read?
Yes. “གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།” is free to read online in Pagine on any phone, tablet or computer — no payment and nothing to download. It is openly licensed (CC BY-NC 3.0).
What language is “གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།” in?
It is written in Tibetan. Pagine has 1 free children’s book in Tibetan.
What age is “གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།” for?
It is best for ages 2–8 (Level 1 · First words). Younger children can enjoy it read aloud.
Is “གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།” available in other languages?
Yes — the same story is in English, Yoruba, Kiswahili, Kikuyu, Kimaasai, Turkana and more.
Who wrote “གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།”?
“གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ།” was written by Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi and illustrated by Sandra McDougall, Ingrid Schechter; the Tibetan translation is by འདབ་དྲུག Dabtruk, པཱཊ་རིག་ཌཱོཌ། Patrick Dowd, ཆུ་ཚང་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན། Chusang Sonam Rinchen.
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Get the free app →Credits: གནམ་གཤིས་ཀྱི་དེབ། — Written by Clare Verbeek, Thembani Dladla, Zanele Buthelezi; Illustrated by Sandra McDougall, Ingrid Schechter; Translated by འདབ་དྲུག Dabtruk, པཱཊ་རིག་ཌཱོཌ། Patrick Dowd, ཆུ་ཚང་བསོད་ནམས་རིན་ཆེན། Chusang Sonam Rinchen; Read by པད་མ་ཆོས་སྒྲོན། Pema Choedon. Tibetan, Level 1. From Global Storybooks (global-asp.github.io/storybooks-himalaya), originally from the African Storybook (https://africanstorybook.org/reader.php?id=1861). CC BY-NC 3.0. · Page updated October 2026