Authors Café

La bibliografia Almeno questi!, prodotta dal Centro regionale di servizi per le biblioteche per ragazzi e da LiBeR, unica nel suo genere per ampiezza di copertura editoriale, risponde all'esigenza diffusa e fortemente sentita da bibliotecari, insegnanti e operatori di poter usufruire di una finestra panoramica sui libri per bambini e ragazzi. Quest'anno alle cinque sezioni tradizionali (prescolastica, primo ciclo elementare, secondo ciclo elementare, secondaria inferiore, classici) è stata aggiunta una specifica sezione per young adult. Il Centro regionale di servizi per le biblioteche per ragazzi è promosso da Regione Toscana e Comune di Campi Bisenzio ed è attivo presso la Biblioteca Tiziano Terzani.

Anna Sarfatti e Wlodek Goldkorn sono i vincitori ex aequo del Premio Ceppo per l’Infanzia e l’Adolescenza 2023. I due vincitori presentano le due Ceppo Ragazzi Lectures 2023 dedicate al tema della memoria e pubblicate su LiBeR 137. Le lectures sono basate sulle parole chiave: Memoria, Immaginazione, Parola, Crescita, Partecipazione e Libertà.

Born in South Korea and China, webtoons have become a global phenomenon, expanding well beyond the borders of the Asian continent, with numbers unthinkable in traditional publishing. Designed for vertical scroll reading on mobile devices, webtoons seem to be the new frontier of comics.

From a top YouTube creator to storybook success - Super Simple is bringing their digital characters off the screen and onto the pages of printed books in a cross media collaboration with Scholastic. Brett Jubinville and Lauren Mowat will talk about their design process, working with their publisher and how they’re able to attract a new audience of readers using QR codes, their website and their award-winning subscription mobile app. Mr Motivator Tik Tok - Nearly 60% of 16-25 year olds say that BookTok has switched them on to reading. Students will highlight a project and share some of the content they have been creating. The project will launch a new children’s series with digital and physical products about mental wellbeing, kindness and caring for the environment.

Opera Prima 2023 winner: Mariedl. Une histoire gigantesque (Mariedl. A Gigantic Story), Text and illustrations by Laura Simonati Versant Sud, Belgium, 2022.

New Horizons 2023 winner: El bolso (The Purse), Text by María José Ferrada, Illustrations by Ana Palmero, Cáceres Alboroto Ediciones, Mexico, 2021.

Nei 10 anni della Biblioteca IBBY Lampedusa, un incontro per raccontare eventi, attività e novità della biblioteca al centro del mediterraneo e presentare la nuovissima Honour list della VI edizione del progetto. Un'occasione per riflettere di editoria e del suo ruolo nelle politiche di frontiera.

The readers of the future have already experienced a worldwide pandemic, rising inequalities and the effects of climate change. Books are an important tool to help empower and inspire action amongst our future leaders. Launched in 2019, the SDG Book Club enables children aged between 6-12 to interact and better understand the principles behind the Global Goals. It has grown from the 6 official UN languages to include local chapters in Africa, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Brazil and Indonesia. Join us for an interactive chat focused on the question: how can these book clubs drive action and how can we do more?

Every year at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the International Youth Library (IYL) hosts an event about a current topic in international children’s and young adult literature. This year, the focus is on the representation of violent conflicts, war, persecution and flight in literature for young readers. How do the books tell their stories? How do authors and illustrators address these sensitive topics in texts and images and how do they convey such challenging and potentially traumatic content? Members of the IYL team will introduce a selection of remarkable titles from the current international children's book production that show different ways of approaching these questions.

Young Adult Category winner 2023: Planetarium Ghost Travel The Art of Sakatsuki Sakana (Young Adult). Text and Art by Sakana Sakatsuki, PIE International Inc., Japan, 2021

Early Reader Category winner 2023: Whose Sock? Text and Art by Sun Jun, Hsin Yi Publications, Cina, 2020

Middle Grade Category winner 2023: Un matin (One Morning).  Text by Jérôme Dubois, Art by Laurie Agusti, La Partie, France, 2022

While graphic novel for children is under the spotlight, it is worth exploring the catalogues of comic book publishers for adults, where more and more titles suitable for teenage readers keep showing up. Three non-specialized European publishing houses discuss the opportunities of targeting young adult readers.

Dads of the series Ariol published in France by Bayard Editions (BD Kids) and translated into 17 languages, they joined together in a creative duo that has been working together for more than 20 years without losing its freshness. The two illustrators retraced their collaboration trought their most famous stories, full of fantasy that examine childhood, its joys and torments.

Fiction Winner 2023: Todo lo que pasó antes de que llegaras (Everything That Happened Before You Arrived). Text and Illustrations by Yael Frankel, Limonero, Argentina, 2022.

Non Fiction Winner 2023: Art of Protest. Text by De Nichols. Illustrations by Diana Dagadita, Saddo, Olivia Twist, Molly Mendoza, Diego Becas, Big Picture Press (Bonnier Books UK), Regno Unito, 2021.

How the Secretary of Education of the City of Sao Paulo selects Children Books and disseminates it to the teachers and other mediators; presentation of the contest for Best Reading Project at School promoted in collaboration with BCBF.

The Global Network for Early Years Bookgifting connects organisations all over the world who are dedicated to bringing books to babies. Find out why, and how they work together with the professional book world in order to raise nations of readers.

Photography special Category winner 2023: Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams’s Photographs Reveal about the Japanese American Incarceration. Text by Elizabeth Partridge, images by Lauren Tamaki, Chronicle Books, USA, 2022.

Photography special Category mention 2023: Qui veut jouer avec moi? (Who Wants to Play with Me?), Text and images by Claire Dé, Éditions des Grandes Personnes, France, 2022.

Photography special Category mention 2023: Cache-cache cauchemars, Text and images by Jean Lecointre, Éditions Thierry Magnier, France, 2018.

Photography special Category mention 2023: O adeus do marujo (The Sailor's Goodbye), Texts and images by Flávia Bomfim, Pallas Editora, Brazil, 2022.

Two artists, two worlds, one book: Cachée ou pas, j'arrive! (Actes Sud BD) brings together the narrative worlds of two children's illustrators: Camille Jourdy's Wondrous Wonders woods, home to elves and pastel-colored unicorns, and Lolita Séchan's black and white microcosm inhabited by a family of moles. The book works as a game of hide and seek between different characters and their authors, whose styles chase each other through the pages. Jourdy and Séchan retrace the origin of their collaboration with Thomas Gabison, publisher at Actes Sud BD.

Per lavorare in un settore dinamico, appassionante e internazionale come quello dell’editoria per ragazzi (il settore che più è cresciuto negli ultimi anni e quello che vende più diritti di pubblicazione all’estero), servono competenze specifiche, che spaziano dalla psicologia dello sviluppo al marketing, dalla storia dell’illustrazione alla scrittura, dall’editing alle digital PR e al social adv. Per formarsi e inserirsi in questo settore, l’Università Cattolica presenta il nuovo master in editoria Master Children’s Books & Co., realizzato in collaborazione con Bologna Children’s Book Fair e da un’idea di Pierdomenico Baccalario e Book On a Tree.

How is a comic book magazine for children made? Moving between fiction and journalism, three European magazines explain how comics can be used to inform children and turn them into comics readers.

Time to chill out and enjoy some art, music, and storytelling! In this illustration concert, five Taiwanese illustrators will do live drawing along with onsite music performance, unlocking the magical combination of drawing and music.

Il Kamishibai è un originale ed efficace strumento per l'animazione alla lettura, è un teatro d’immagini di origine giapponese utilizzato dai cantastorie. In questo incontro racconteremo le origini di questa valigia dei racconti e leggeremo insieme le nuove storie proposte da Edizioni Artebambini.

Grazie allo stretto legame fra testo e immagine, l’albo illustrato rappresenta una formidabile possibilità di arricchimento e ampliamento di contenuti all’interno della scuola. Uno strumento di soft learning a disposizione della didattica.