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The International Illustration Contest BOit!

Created in 2018, the international contest of illustration BOit! has celebrated its third edition in 2023. The aim of the Contest is to help ...

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Talking comics with Paul Gravett

Co-founder of Escape magazine and Comica Festival, Paul Gravett is a London-based writer, curator, critic and lecturer specialising in international ...

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Let's meet Sólin Sekkur

If you like Olmo, Pacha and the other members of 2022 BCBF's Visual Identity, you have to thank Mexican illustrator Sólin Sekkur who, ...

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Bookshelves Ahoy - In Japan

Bookshelves Ahoy! In this Fairtales column, children’s literature expert Petra Paoli takes us around the world exploring independent bookstores ...

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Bookshelves Ahoy - In Italy

Bookshelves Ahoy! In this Fairtales column, children’s literature expert Petra Paoli takes us around the world exploring independent bookstores ...

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Bookshelves Ahoy - In Germany

Bookshelves Ahoy! In this Fairtales column, children’s literature expert Petra Paoli takes us around the world exploring independent bookstores ...

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Bookshelves Ahoy - In Portugal

Bookshelves Ahoy! In this new Fairtales column, children’s literature expert Petra Paoli takes us around the world exploring independent ...

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Translate it, Translate it not: Translating Nonsense

Following on from "Not so lost in translation", the new Fairtales column, Simona Mambrini - curator of the annual programme ...

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An Interview with Susan Bolsover

On the occasion of the Masterclass “Content Reigns Supreme”, held online last 22 April, organized by Bologna Children’s Book ...

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15 years of Anorak Magazine

Aimed at young readers aged between 6 and 12 years old, Anorak is internationally-acclaimed as "Happy Mag for Kids", one of the most ...

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BolognaBookPlus: meet the Guest Director!

There's some excitement in the air already about BolognaBookPlus. Comprising not only an exhibition, there is a one-day industry conference ...

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Drawing with Rasa

Last year, for the forth edition of the BCBF Visual Identity Workshop, the design studio Chialab together with BCBF team chose the Lithuanian ...

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Symbiosis as a musical score

For the fifth edition of the “BCBF Visual Identity Workshop”, Chialab and the BCBF team have chosen the Parisian Jean ...

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Bringing a natural microcosm to life

Following on from its highly successful debut in 2017 with Italian illustrator Daniele Castellano, the BCBF Visual Identity Workshop went to ...

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Meeting Bodour Al Qasimi

Bodour Al Qasimi, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kalimat Group, is a leading publisher of Arabic ...

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Playing with dreams

The BCBF Visual Identity Workshop was at its third edition in 2019, when the Russian artist Masha Titova was chosen, among very talented ...

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Fantastic creatures around BCBF? Done!

It was 2017, and Bologna Children’s Book Fair decided to make a change. That year, the fair's visual identity was commissioned to a young ...

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Carlo Poesio Award 2020

Now in its third edition, the Carla Poesio Award maintains as its main focus the world of academic research concerning children's literature ...

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Golden Pinwheel takes six!

The Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition is an international illustration contest held annually as part of the China Shanghai International ...

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Is Gianni Rodari a classic already?

To mark the centenary of his birth, Mondadori has included Gianni Rodari in its Meridiani Collection, publishing a 1800-page volume of his works. ...

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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 is on show alongside ...

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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, the ...

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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 at ...

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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 and ...

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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 “Illustrators ...

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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 year. ...

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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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