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30 March 2 April 2020 Bologna, Italy 57th edition Giving life to children’s content an event by
GIVING LIFE For 57 years BCBF has been
THE EVENT IN THE CHILDREN’S
TO CHILDREN’S PUBLISHING INDUSTRY. Over 1,400
CONTENT
AT THE 600 exhibitors and around 30,000 professional
visitors flock to the event each spring
BCBF Events TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD
2020
28,946
Visitors
820
Journalists
OF CHILDREN’S BOOK, ILLUSTRATION
AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT.
Much more than just a trade fair,
from 42 the BCBF is both a vibrant business hub
Countries and a creative workshop, where past and
future happily meet the present. Thanks
to its DNA and its 50+ years of experience,
1442
11,700 the fair has succeeded in bringing together
Twitter
followers a unique and diverse global audience and
+1000 51,429 is now an unmissable appointment to
Exhibitors Facebook explore the changing and multi-layered
from 80 Countries likes
20
children’s publishing landscape led by
+20%
Foreign visitors
Original
illustrations
40,500
Instagram
followers
THE PRINTED BOOK, STILL THE AGENT
OF CHANGE AND PROGRESS
Awards IN THE INDUSTRY.
1PageMILLION
views
BCBF websiteTHE FAIR With books as the beating
heart of the event, the SHARJAH
fair also offers exciting
insights into the digital GUEST
and licensing worlds.
The result is the world’s
BCBF IS OPEN ALL YEAR LONG:
50.000 FACEBOOK AND 37.000
OF
premium copyright and
creativity hub for books INSTAGRAM USERS ARE ALREADY HONOUR
and all other children’s
content media.
FOLLOWING US…
JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 2020
T he Bologna Children’s Book
Fair covers an area of 20,000
square metres extending over 4
pavilions, to which is added the
Literary Agents Centre, located in
the Gallery Hall, at the very heart of
the fair. Last year, BCBF has brought
together 1442 exhibitors from 80
countries and 28,946 professional
visitors of which over 50% are
international, for a total of 100
countries attending the fair! Of
course, books are the corner stone
of the fair but a special focus is The music and the
also devoted to the other forms of
children’s content: from many years literature, the city
BCBF welcomes the global majors and the fair.
of the digital sector, along with
TV and film producers, and now
the main players of the audiobook
sector, which continues to expand
worldwide.
EW!
NEW!
N
BOLOGNA
LICENSING COMING SOON:
TRADE
FAIR
A BRAND-NEW ONLINE MAGAZINE B ologna has showcased children’s
FOCUSED ON books from Sharjah for many
In addition, the Bologna Licensing
Trade Fair, now in its 12th edition, THE ILLUSTRATION EXHIBITIONS,
years. It’s now time to discover
more about their unique heritage
brings to Bologna the excellence in
children’s licensing: 60 exhibitors, THE FLAGSHIP CONFERENCES and view the current landscape of
children’s literature being shaped
over 600 brands and a packed AND THE SPECIAL PROGRAMMES and enriched by talented Emirati
programme of events make it
one of the key events in Europe
WE SHOWCASE ACROSS illustrators and authors.
dedicated to the business of THE WORLD, WITH INSIGHTS, As Guest of Honour at BCBF
2020, Sharjah will bring a
subsidiary rights. INTERVIEWS AND MUCH MORE diverse programme of exhibitions,
ABOUT THE WORK OF BCBF. performances and workshops
STAY TUNED! spanning illustrations, theatre,
literature and music. Their
contributions and achievements will
be celebrated both at the fair and
around the city.COMICS AWARDS
CORNER
The BCBF Awards
collection celebrates
the best books, apps,
publishers and licensing
programmes.
EW!
NEW!
N
BOLOGNA
RAGAZZI BRAW SPECIAL
AWARD SECTION
BRAW CINEMA
BCBF welcomes Comics
with a new exhibition C omics and graphic novels are one
of the fastest growing segments
in the publishing industry. More
The COMICS CORNER will
welcome books from publishers
already exhibiting at the fair as well
S et up to highlight outstanding
illustrated books, the BRAW
honours the best graphic and
In the 100th anniversary since
the birth of Federico Fellini, the
renowned cinema master, BCBF
area at the fair and a and more publishers are producing as those that have never attended editorial production in children’s dedicates a special BolognaRagazzi
permanent category in the works in these formats creating before. This area will be a showcase literature. With a history going back Award category to Cinema – its
BolognaRagazzi Award. collections or just adding a few with displays by publishing house, as far as 1966, the prize has become history, its protagonists, its
titles per year to their catalogues enriched by a digital catalogue of a leading international launch pad techniques. Cinema is a key part in
to enrich their overall offer, many the books showcased in the Comics for authors and illustrators thanks people and young people’s life. Like
of which become bestsellers. Some Corner and direct contact with the to the high-profile recognition a good book, a good film nourishes
countries have a long tradition of publishers. offered during the fair. Winning the imagination, education and
comics and graphic novels, some The collection at the Comics BRAW, or gaining a special mention, creative thinking. That is why many
are newcomers… They are all part Corner will be launched with a brings with it great visibility in the children’s publishers worldwide
of this new and vibrant landscape celebratory opening cocktail the publishing world, leading to the sale are bringing out more and more
where comics are taking an first day of the fair. The BCBF’s of rights in many new countries. compelling stories about this
important position in the world of focus on comics will also include NEW Since its inception, more than 600 medium helping new generations
children’s book publishing. For this a discussion on translating FROM titles have been awarded, with become cinephiles and discover
reason BCBF is launching a new area comics at the Translators Centre, THIS YEAR! over a thousand books coming to the many secret delights of film
dedicated to this exciting medium. a panel on the art of comics at COMICS Bologna annually to be judged by making.
the Illustrators Survival Corner an international jury of experts.
and a meeting on the business of
comics publishing at the Authors
Café. At the 2020 fair, BCBF is also
T o support the important role
that comics and graphic novels
play in today’s children’s publishing
It encompasses three award
categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction,
Opera Prima (a prize for first-time
introducing COMICS as a brand new industry, BCBF is introducing authors and illustrators) and a
and permanent category of the COMICS as a brand-new permanent special section dedicated this year
BolognaRagazzi Award. category of the BolognaRagazzi to Cinema. The jury is also asked
Award. The COMICS category will to give a special New Horizons BOLOGNA BOLOGNA
include three different sections: recognition, which is for innovative RAGAZZI RAGAZZI
COMICS CINEMA
Early Reader, Middle Grade and books that introduce the readers to AWARD AWARD
Young Adult. new visions and perspectives.BOLOGNA PREMIO
RAGAZZI BOLOGNA STREGA PREMIO BOLOGNA
DIGITAL PRIZE RAGAZZE CARLA LICENSING
AWARD BOP E RAGAZZI POESIO AWARD
S ince 2012, the Bologna Children’s
Book Fair has awarded the
BolognaRagazzi Digital Award for
T he BOP - Bologna Prize for the
best Children’s Publishers of the
Year is awarded to top children’s
N ow in its fifth year, this literary
prize which originates from
Italy’s most coveted award for
A s part of its ongoing
commitment to promoting
publishing excellence, BCBF also
C reated in 2017 in the framework
of the Bologna Licensing
Trade Fair (BLTF) – the BCBF
the most innovative mobile app or publishers in six areas of the world: literature – the Strega Prize – was focuses on the world of research event dedicated to the business
web products for children. The prize Africa, Central and South America, launched to foster a long-life with this prize dedicated to the of subsidiary rights – the prize is
is a spotlight on innovation and the North America, Asia, Europe and passion for books, promote the best dissertations in children’s unique in Italy for the licensing
latest trends in children’s digital Oceania. The aim of the prize is educational and cultural value of literature. The award, now in its sector and awarded only to BLTF
content which is thriving in areas of to acknowledge those publishers reading and find out which titles second edition and awarded for exhibitors. It recognises the best
entertainment and education. The at the forefront of innovation young readers love the most. The postgraduate works in Italian licensing projects developed in 2019
award is open to all publishers and for their creative and publishing prize is sponsored by BolognaFiere, University only, pays tribute to in the categories PRE-SCHOOL,
developers of apps and web based excellence. The winners are chosen the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci the literary critic Carla Poesio, KIDS, TEENS and ADULT. The award
productions for children aged 0 to 15 by the BCBF exhibitors from a Foundation, Strega Alberti her fundamental contribution to also includes a special mention on
years. Participation is free of charge. shortlist based on suggestions by Benevento and the Italian Centre the world of children’s literature Retail, Fashion and the Licensing
Works can be submitted in any publishers, publishers associations for Books and Reading (CEPELL). and her unique role in the birth Property of the Year. The award-
language. and institutions devoted to book Books published in Italy, by Italian and development of the Bologna winning products are exhibited at
and reading promotion worldwide. and foreign authors in translation, Children’s Book Fair. the Services Centre in the entrance
The prize is organised by BCBF are judged by a jury composed of to the BLTF Hall.
in partnership with AIE - Italian children and teenagers from 100
Publishers Association, and schools and libraries across Italy and
IPA - International Publishers abroad. The winners are the author
Association. and the translator (if it is a foreign
book). Two categories: 6-10 and 11-15
years.
BOLOGNA
RAGAZZI BOP BOLOGNA
DIGITAL BOLOGNA PRIZE LICENSING
AWARD Best Children’s AWARD
Publishers
of the YearEVERYTHING
IS ILLUSTRATION
@ BCBF THE INTERNATIONAL
AWARD FOR
BOLOGNA THE ILLUSTRATION
BOLOGNACHILDREN’S
ARS
IN FABULA
ILLUSTRATORS ILLUSTRATORS BOOK FAIR - GRANT
EXHIBITION ANNUAL SM FOUNDATION AWARD
Since its beginning, BCBF has put illustrators
and writers at the heart of the fair. Working with T he Exhibition displays a wide
selection of artists from
all over the world forming a
E very year, the Illustrators Annual
collects all the works of the
artists selected for the Illustrators
T his prize is for artists under 35
who have already been selected
for the Illustrators Exhibition. The
A RS IN FABULA – higher
education institute directly
involved with children’s books — has
them, nurturing them, promoting and bringing them unique showcase for both fiction Exhibition: a large catalogue which award offers the winner a cash prize joined forces with BCBF to create
together with publishers at the very human and cultural and non-fiction. Each year, an is published in Italy, USA, Japan in order to give them resources for a the Ars in Fabula Grant Award,
event known simply to some as “Bologna”. international jury of experts and China. The cover is traditionally year to develop a picture book to be given to a young, unpublished
examines thousands of originals created by the winners of the H. published and released on the world illustrator under 30 who has been
Over all our years that have passed and into the future submitted by both established and C. Andersen Award and the Grand market by the Spanish publisher already selected for the Illustrators
the fair is committed to championing the artist through emerging illustrators. After the fair, Prix of the Biennial of Illustrations SM. The original illustrations of Exhibition. The aim of the prize is
conferences, special pop-up events, roundtables, the Exhibition starts a two years Bratislava, alternating between the the book are presented at the next to sustain and nurture new talents
countless exhibitions and also “survival” corners that long international tour. This tour two prizes. The 2020 Annual cover edition of the Bologna Children’s through a postgraduate illustration
features the exhibition’s original will be illustrated by the winner of Book Fair for a solo exhibition course, while also meeting the
all stretch across the globe and run through the year of artworks in Japan, Korea and China, the Grand Prix of the Biennial of dedicated to the winning illustrator. needs of publishers in their search
the BCBF calendar. and reproductions in many other Illustrations Bratislava, whose solo The 10th edition winner of the for new illustrators. The winner of
venues across the world. exhibition will be displayed at the prize is Sarah Mazzetti (Italy). the 2019 edition is the unpublished
fair. artist Olga Shtonga (Ukraine).ILLUSTRATORS
SURVIVAL
THE BCBF
CORNER
VISUAL
IDENTITY
WORKSHOP
N ow in its fourth year, the BCBF
Visual Identity Workshop gives
a young artist chosen from among
Young illustrators, both
published and emerging
those selected for the Illustrators artists, can find all the
Exhibition an opportunity to tools they need here to
develop the visual universe for the launch and enhance their
next BCBF in co-production with
Chialab Design. The artist selected
career.
OFF THE
PAGE... to develop the 2020 BCBF Visual
Identity is Rasa Jančiauskaitė
AND INTO (Lithuania). The exhibition of the
THE WORLD illustrations showing the birth and
OF FASHION development of the workshop will
B T
ologna Children’s Book Fair and be on display at the fair. he Illustrators Survival Corner
Pitti Immagine Bimbo, the is a hub for illustrators at
international trade show for new BCBF where artists especially
trends in children’s fashion, began those setting out on their careers
their collaboration in 2016 with can meet, listen and share
the aim of bringing to the world experiences with a whole range
of fashion the unique visual and of international experts. A daily
creative heritage that animate programme of workshops, portfolio
children’s books. The aim of the reviews and masterclasses held
project is to select some of the by internationally renowned
artists of the Illustrators Exhibition illustrators, editors and art directors
capable of giving a new look and offers practical advices on the
feel to fabrics and collections for many aspects and concerns of the
kids. An exhibition in the heart of profession. The space is managed
Pitti Immagine Bimbo is dedicated and designed by Mimaster
to them accompanied by a small Illustrazione (Milan).
publication with profiles of the Over the years, the Illustrators
artists. Survival Corner has become a
successful format and is now
regularly hosted at the China
Shanghai International Children’s
Book Fair, part of the BCBF Event
Network. In September 2019,
the Corner also arrived at the
Moscow International Children’s
Book Fair where BCBF organized
an international professional
programme on children’s books.THE THE TRANSLATORS
BOOKSELLER CENTRE, HUB FOR
LOUNGE INTERCULTURAL
EXCHANGES
A vibrant hub for the
exchange of challenges B CBF is the place where children’s
booksellers from across the
globe come to discover the latest
The place to be for
professional translators T ranslators meet each year at
BCBF to exchange information
and debate on professional issues.
and good practices for trends in illustration and literature and those wishing to Trade associations, residencies, and
today’s bookshop. for young readers; but it is also specialize in children’s scholarships, as well as subsidies
the place where they catch up literature. available to publishers, are all
with their colleagues to share their discussed and presented during the
experiences and discuss about their fair.
role in the society which often goes
far beyond just simply bookselling. THE TRANSLATORS CAFÉ
The Lounge is a comfortable The Translators Café offers an
space for them to meet, which exciting programme of activities
also offers this year a programme to all participants. These include
of presentations and a special meetings with the diverse
exhibition focused on children’s stakeholders in the book translation
magazines, an interesting segment world, translation workshops
of the publishing landscape and an focused on different foreign
exciting field to explore. Children’s languages, theme specific seminars
magazines can be innovative, and an international conference.
interactive and highly entertaining,
and meet the curiosity of young IN ALTRE PAROLE
readers and parents. This annual translation
competition is aimed at aspiring
translators working in Italian from
languages changing each year in
order to encourage linguistic and
cultural diversity. The competition
is dedicated this year to Arabic,
as SHARJAH is the 2020 Guest of
Honour.
THE WORLD DIRECTORY OF
CHILDREN’S BOOK TRANSLATORS
This broad database of children’s
book translators is available online
for consultation and registration on
the BCBF website all the year round.ILLUSTRATORS WHAT’S
FOR GIANNI ON THE
RODARI: STAGE
ITALIAN
EXCELLENCE
Gianni Rodari, one of the BCBF is the place where
most innovative children’s you can keep up to date
writers of the last century, with the latest trends in
was born in 1920 and his children’s publishing and
centennial in 2020 will be content.
celebrated worldwide.
THE THE
BOLOGNA FLAGSHIP
CAFÉS CONFERENCES
B CBF celebrates the great Italian
writer with the exhibition
“Illustrators for Gianni Rodari:
celebrated contemporary artists
such as Beatrice Alemagna,
Emanuele Fior, Gaia Stella,
T he programme of the fair
includes hundreds of meetings
(260 last year) with the widest
T he most traditional BCBF
hot spots for debate and
entertainment, the BCBF Cafés
A collection of international
meetings organized by BCBF
to offer its professional public
GIANNI RODARI
ONCE UPONE A TIME: A
REVOLUTION IN CHILDREN’S
LITERATURE
Italian Excellence”, organized Valerio Vidali, Olimpia Zagnoli. range of topics, from the market offer opportunities to listen and the opportunity to explore a wide
Gianni Rodari, author of the brilliant
in partnership with the Italian Inaugurated in the US, first in strategies to the promotion of share experiences with a whole range of hot topics with the most
essay “The Grammar of Fantasy”,
Cultural Institute in San Francisco Portland and then travelling to reading, from the illustration range of professionals in an open prestigious authors, artists and
is one of the most translated
and with the support of Emilia- San Francisco, the exhibition techniques to the newest digital and informal atmosphere. Each Café industry insiders. This year’s
writers in contemporary children’s
Romagna Region. The Exhibition will also be part of BCBF 2020. technologies, getting through the is named after its main audience: selection includes:
literature. In 1970, he was awarded
– curated by the Giannino Stoppani After the fair, the exhibition themes and the mission of the the Authors Café, the Illustrators
the H. C. Andersen Award for his
Cultural Cooperative/Accademia will start a long international children’s book today: in a few Café, the Translators Café, the CINEMA: LIGHTS, CAMERA, highly innovative work. Nowadays,
Drosselmeier – presents original tour, always accompanied by words, a rich source of creative Licensing Café. Unrivalled in its ACTION... LET’S READ!
a renovated interest in Rodari’s
illustrations for Rodari’s books its catalogue published by inspiration and professional diversity and depth of discussions As part of the 2020 BolognaRagazzi
work is clearly perceivable across
by 21 Italian artists. They include Einaudi Ragazzi, enriched with development for everyone. there is something for everyone Award Special Category devoted
the world, as his stories and ideas
historic figures like Bruno Munari contributions by international here. to Cinema, this international
are being rediscovered through
and Emanuele Luzzati, as well as experts of Rodari’s work. meeting will bring together authors,
new editorial proposals. A panel of
illustrators, publishers, critics
international scholars, publishers
along with the BRAW’s jurors.
and critics will discuss many aspects
How can children’s books tell the
of his work. The conference will be
story of cinema? An invitation
coordinated by Jack Zipes, one of
to get children to discover the
the world’s foremost experts of
fascinating world of cinema, its
children’s literature.
key protagonists, the different
techniques and crafts of film
making as well as the many
possibilities for this media in the
future.
illustration Giulia OrecchiaIN Every year, BCBF’s broad line-up of events even taps
into the city. Dedicated to children’s literature and
THE illustration, the programme encompasses exhibitions,
meet-the-author events, workshops, readings and
CITY performances all around the city. In 2020, Bologna will
present two special exhibitions:
THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL
CHILDREN’S BOOKSELLER
on the book production journey FOCUS ON THE
RUSSIAN MARKET
BEAUTY AND THE
CONFERENCE
and on the methods that merge
BCBF has started in 2019 a fruitful
WORLD: THE NEW
illustration and sciences. NON-FICTION THE ABC
Unlike their general bookstore collaboration with the Moscow
counterparts, children’s specialty COMICS International Book Fair (MIBF)
PICTURE BOOK OF IT
bookstores are sharply growing As part of the BCBF’s brand-new which will lead to the organization AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING WHY CHILDREN’S BOOKS
today and play a major role in the focus on comics, this vibrant of a brand new Moscow PHENOMENON MATTER
children’s book market. Over the
E T
conference made of three meetings International Children’s Book Fair in ver the beginning of this century his special exhibition, curated by
last years, the BCBF has been a will provide a deep dive into the 2021. The first step was a wide and publishers around the world preeminent historian and critic
meeting point for international topic from different perspectives: diverse professional programme have become more interested and of children’s literature Leonard S.
booksellers. This year’s edition of art, translation and business, in of events held in September 2019, published more picture books Marcus, will offer a fascinating
the conference, organized with order to offer a comprehensive with the participation of artists focused on the knowledge of look at children’s literature
ALIR – the Italian Association of approach to one of the most and publishers from different general science (physics, geography, through history, featuring an
children’s bookstores, will focus expanding segments of the countries. This conference will biology, anthropology, linguistics, exquisite collection of iconic books,
on training to bookselling. A publishing industry. offer an overview on the Russian technology, and philosophy). They original art, manuscripts and other
vibrant discussion towards a new children’s book market through
FOCUS ON THE have been creating books that related objects. A highly inspiring
conception of the bookstore as a the insights of Russian publishers
CHINESE MARKET challenge each other with a large showcase which underlines the
community-centered place, and who already sell and buy copyrights
BolognaFiere is the co-organizer of scale, elegance in illustrations, role that children’s books play in
of the bookseller as a vital link internationally, and the experiences
the China Shanghai International inventiveness in graphics, our lives and in world culture. The
between the school and the library, of publishers who took part in
Children’s Book Fair, the only experimental aesthetics and more. exhibition, first hosted by the
as a festivals and events promoter the first fellowship programme
copyright exchange hub fully There is so much in non-fiction Andersen Library of the University
and finally as an expert book and organized by BCBF and MIBF.
dedicated to children’s books and production and especially in the of Minnesota and by the New York
reading list recommender for
content in Asia Pacific. Following picture book genre that can be Public Library, will be held at the
everyone in their local areas.
up with the successful experience of considered a real boom, and serve historic Archiginnasio Public Library.
BEAUTY AND THE WORLD last year, BCBF – in partnership with as one of the biggest investments The event will be complemented
PICTURE BOOKS - BETWEEN China Publishers Magazine – will in children’s publishing. This with an exclusive lecture by
FICTION AND NON FICTION put a spotlight on the most recent exhibition will be the first showcase Leonard S. Marcus.
Picture books have become much market data on the Chinese book of outstanding non-fiction picture
more interested in science, in a industry. With an expanding rate books from around the world. It
very broad sense of the word. Their of 15% a year and a target of 367 will be accompanied by a collective
visual quality and innovative million children and young adults, essay, the first one of its kind in the
approaches brought to a new China boasts one of the fastest world, with critic insights of noted
research field, intertwining the growing children’s book markets non-fiction picture book experts.
classic genre of ‘non-fiction’ with in the world. The conference will This is the result of a research
narrative ‘fiction’. The panel, on the include case histories and best project of the Bologna University,
occasion of the exhibition “Beauty practices of collaborations led by children’s literature scholar
and the World”, will investigate the between international Giorgia Grilli, and supported by
new production in all its richness and Chinese publishers. BCBF. Curated by Hamelin Cultural
through the work of publishers Association, the exhibition will be
and creators. Some case histories held at the Sala Borsa Public Library
will highlight the contemporary during BCBF.
production, offering an overviewDesign Chialab Illustration Rasa Jančiauskaitė an event by FOLLOW US & JOIN THE CONVERSATION #BCBF20 www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com Bologna Children’s Book Fair Piazza Costituzione, 6 40128 Bologna, Italy Ph. +39 051 282242 — 282361 bookfair@bolognafiere.it illustratori@bolognafiere.it bcbfdigitalmedia@bolognafiere.it bcbfcomics@bolognafiere.it licensing@bolognafiere.it
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