Focus Children's Rights in 20 languages Working with CEATL (the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations) and FIT (the International Federation of Translators), ...
Focus Bambini nascosti (Hidden Children) by Franco Matticchio In February 2024, the jury of the BolognaRagazzi Awards gathered in the Salaborsa library to select the winning books, subsequently celebrated ...
Focus 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 ...
Focus Born to Read The Bologna Children's Book Fair is a hub of creativity and innovation in children's literature, bringing together publishers, authors, and ...
Focus The constant ferment of Children's magazines Editor and journalist Mara Varisco tells us about the today's constant ferment market of children's magazines.
Focus Comics and Self-Publishing Elisa Salamini, journalist and co-founder at Mamamò.it, delves into new digital opportunities for comic strips.
Focus Fluo-Lit up Books Fluo – Lit-up Books is an exhibition of 130 fluorescent books released in different parts of the world over the last ten years, testifying ...
Focus Kids and Magazines The Bologna Licensing Trade Fair / Kids, dedicated to licensing and entertainment, takes place from 21 to 24 March 2022, as an integral ...
Focus Illustrators' favourite villains Ivan Canu talks about the exhibition Cattivi/Villains - exhibited at the Illustrators Survival Corner during the 59th Bologna Children's Book ...
Focus BolognaRagazzi CrossMedia Award 2022 Journalist and content creator Roberta Franceschetti walks us through the multimedia projects submitted for this year's BRAW Crossmedia, showing ...
Focus Comics in school Hamelin Cultural Association gives an insight on the roundtable that will be held during Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2022, going ...
Focus Silent Book Contest 2021 LO ZAINETTO DI MATILDE by Fabio Sardo, Luca Cognolato and Silvia Del Francia (Carthusia) was the winner of the 2021 Gianni De Conno ...
Focus COP26 book collections In support of both the Milan Pre-COP Meeting and the Glasgow COP26 Meeting, 39 book publishers have contributed titles focusing on the climate ...
Focus Representation in children’s fiction matters more than ever Jasmine Richards, founder of Storymix, tell us about the importance of exposing children to different cultures, viewpoints and ...
Focus Translating Balloons Simona Mambrini asked comics translator Andrea Toscani to identify five key words to describe the specificities of comics translation.
Focus Stories Like Mangoes For Tanya Batson-Savage, Publisher, Editor in Chief at Blue Banyan Books and Blouse & Skirt Books, publishing means bringing stories ...
Focus Beyond Baba Yaga Following on from "Not so lost in translation", the new Fairtales column, Giulia De Florio (University of Modena) and Odile Belkeddar ...
Focus Skin Colour and Beauty Standards in Thai Children's Book Virine Hutasangkas, researcher in contemporary Children’s literature and lecturer at Chiang Mai University, offers an interesting perspective ...
Focus Publishing through the storm Alice Curry, CEO and Katrina Gutierrez, CCO at Lantana Publishing co-sign an interesting article on the effects of the pandemic on the publishing ...
Focus The amazing experience of Internazionale Kids One of the masterclasses of Open Up - BCBF’s new activity area - looked at magazines for children, and the important place illustrators ...
Focus Machine Translation and Human Creativity: The Imitation Game Simona Mambrini, curator of the annual programme of events on translation at the Translators Centre, walks us through the fascinating world ...
Focus The Value of Words in Picture Books In this special contribution, Leonard S. Marcus – one of the world’s foremost historians and critics of children's literature – ...
Focus Memories of a Master: Mitsumasa Anno Kiyoko Matsuoka, Deputy Director of the Itabashi Art Museum, shares with Fairtales readers an intimate portrait of Mitsumasa Anno. The famous ...
Focus The tactile boards of "Beyond Sight" in Japan The exhibition Beyond Sight / Oltre la vista / Miru o koete, with its tactile boards, is on show alongside the 2020 Illustrators ...
Focus Ars in Fabula - Grant Award Of the many opportunities offered artists selected each year for the BCBF Illustrators Exhibition, one is especially reserved for budding young ...
Focus 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 ...
Focus A focus on the 2020 Dust or Magic Masterclass The BolognaRagazzi Digital Award and the future of digital content for children and young adults after the pandemicby Roberta Franceschetti, ...
Focus Silent Book Contest 2020 The Silent Book Contest - Gianni De Conno Award 2020 is the first international contest dedicated to books without words, now ...
Focus All you need to know about the Hans Christian Andersen Award Since 1956, the Hans Christian Andersen Award is the highest international recognition given to an author and an illustrator of children's books. While ...
Focus The art of Hassan Mousavi An inspirational source for illustrators, artists, designers, and art fans, the Illustrators Annual is a must-have publication collecting the ...
Focus Books that celebrate THE BOOK In recent years picture books on the subject of the book itself have flourished including stories of libraries, bookstores, publishers, activists, ...
Focus “Books! How I love them!” This text is courtesy of Jeanette Winter for A UNIVERSE OF STORIES. STARRING: THE BOOK exhibition. Some of the illustrations were specially ...
Focus How to Get Out of Here and if Yes, When? Maurizio Quarello talks about Come si esce da questo libro e soprattutto quando?/How to Get Out of Here and if Yes, When? After “Come ...
Focus Lucy’s Book Author Natalie Jane Prior talks about “Lucy’s Book”, the picture book she created with Cheryl Orsini, featured in the BCBF ...
Focus The Magic Bookshop Author Natalie Jane Prior tells about “The Magic Bookshop”, the picture book she created with Cheryl Orsini on show in the BCBF ...
Focus BCBF: the story of a logo With the Online Special Edition, Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s logo has also undergone radical change. Although ...
Focus Artists seeking masterpieces The BCBF Illustrators Exhibition has a long and interesting history, whose story was told in 2016 by the exhibition “Artists and Masterpieces ...
