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Gianni Rodari around the world

23 October 2020 marks the centenary of the birth of Gianni Rodari. Bologna Children’s Book Fair has organized a new edition of the exhibition ...

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Beyond Sight

Illustrations and accessibility: the tactile graphics in the exhibition Beyond Sight / Oltre la vista / Miru o koete will be on show ...

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Pop-Up Books

Pop-up books have always captured the imagination of children and beyond, precisely because they’re both books and engineering masterpieces. ...

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Let's meet Il Castoro

Renata Gorgani is the publishing director of Il Castoro, Italian publishing house dedicated to kids’ and young readers’ books that, ...

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Let's meet Random House Graphic

Gina Gagliano has worked at First Second Books since before its opening, and she’s now publishing director at Random House Graphic ...

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An interview with Max de Radiguès

Max de Radiguès is a Belgian comic book author specialized in graphic novels for young readers. He is also editor at Sarbacane and ...

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Let's meet Flying Eye

Sam Arthur is co-founder and managing director of Nobrow and Flying Eye . In this interview, we explore his point of view on the present ...

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Marion Bataille and her project "Encyclopodia"

In 2019, Casa Carducci, the last home of the Nobel prize winning poet - today a museum and library - hosted the event “In the Poet’s ...

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The Children-Spectators

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is always open to exciting new projects involving the arts and illustration. One of these is ‘Mapping ...

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10 years of the International Award for Illustration

Created in 2010, the International Award for Illustration Bologna Children’s Book Fair-Fundación SM has already celebrated 10 editions. ...

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Alessandro Sanna & Gianni Rodari

Alessandro Sanna, celebrated Italian illustrator and 2019 Illustrators Exhibition juror, is one of the artists featured in the BCBF exhibition ...

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“The world is an artist's toy”. A talk with Hassan Mousavi

The Illustrators Annual is a unique volume featuring all the selected illustrations, jury comments and special contributions of the yearly BCBF ...

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H.C. Andersen Award: How the Jury Works

“Freshness, innovation and the ability to see the child’s point of view”. Jury president, Junko Yokota, describes the criteria ...

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24h Marathon

A 24h online Portfolio Marathon is the brilliant invention of Mimaster Illustrazione and the Illustrators Survival Corner for this special ...

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Andrea Antinori & Noemi Vola

Andrea Antinori and Noemi Vola, whose works were selected for several Illustrators Exhibitions, are two of the most promising illustrators we’ve ...

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The Illustrators Survival Corner across the world

Although young, the Illustrators Survival Corner by Mimaster Illustrazione has already become a major event, loved by illustrators and editors. ...

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The bold, primordial drawings of Rasa Jančiauskaitė

The artist of BCBF 2020’s Visual Identity is Lithuanian Rasa Jančiauskaitė. Born in 1991, Rasa graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts ...

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Cédric Ramadier and Vincent Bourgeau on « Le livre… »

Cédric Ramadier and Vincent Bourgeau discuss their exciting collaboration for the series “Le livre…” featured in the ...

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The dystopian novel in Primary Schools: the opinion of Ilaria Martino

In the history of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, Carla Poesio, a scholar of children's literature, held a leading role: her contribution ...

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Kid’s Digital: an expanding market (also in these new times…)

The Bologna Children’s Book Fair has been focusing on a great deal of children’s digital content for many years now. Two decades ...

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