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Book Dash

How do children become readers? They need books – lots of them, to explore and enjoy whenever they want. Book Dash aims to turn that into ...

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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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Stories Like Mangoes

For Tanya Batson-Savage, Publisher, Editor in Chief at Blue Banyan Books and Blouse & Skirt Books, publishing means bringing stories ...

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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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BRAW 2021 - Focus on Poetry

Poetry is the new special category of the BolognaRagazzi Award. Next year marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri and BCBF ...

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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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Picture Books about COVID-19

A collection of children’s books on COVID-19 has been translated into several languages and made available to be read online. The ...