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The celebration for the 2020 BOP – Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year is a key part of the BCBF Online Special Edition. The BOP Prize is awarded each year to showcase editorial projects, professional skills and intellectual qualities of work from publishing houses all over the world. Let’s meet Candlewick, nominee for NORTH AMERICA!
Candlewick Press, based in Somerville, MA, is one of the leading independent publishers for children in the United States. For more than twenty-five years, Candlewick has published outstanding children’s books for readers of all ages, including books by award-winning authors and illustrators such as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature emerita Kate DiCamillo, M. T. Anderson, Meg Medina, Jon Klassen, and Laura Amy Schlitz; the widely acclaimed Judy Moody, Mercy Watson, and ’Ology series; and favorites such as Guess How Much I Love You, Maisy, and Where’s Waldo? by Martin Handford. Candlewick is part of the Walker Books Group, which includes Walker Books UK and Walker Productions in London and Walker Books Australia in Sydney.
THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE. Text Copyright © 2006 by Kate DiCamillo. Illustrations Copyright © 2006 by Bagram Ibatoulline. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
RESCUE AND JESSICA: A LIFE-CHANGING FRIENDSHIP. Text Copyright © 2018 by Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes. Illustrations Copyright © 2018 by Scott Magoon. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
THE WOLF, THE DUCK, AND THE MOUSE. Text Copyright © 2017 by Mac Barnett. Illustrations Copyright © 2017 by Jon Klassen. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA.
