2025 BOP Shortlist

The BOP - Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year is awarded annually to highlight excellent publishing houses from all over the world.

Here's the 2025 shortlist of the children’s publishing houses most recommended in each of the six geographical areas by publishers, publishers' associations and institutions devoted to reading promotion worldwide. Now it is the turn of BCBF exhibitors to vote: in their reserved area they will find the form to choose the #boppist 2025. They have until Friday 28 February 2025.

The announcement of the winners will be held during BCBF, 31 March - 3 April 2025.
 

AFRICA

• Dar El Shorouk (Egypt)
• Éditions Akoma Mba (Cameroon)
• Imagnary House (South Africa) 
• Les Editions NTSAME (Gabon)
• Narrative Landscape Press (Nigeria) 

ASIA

• Barefoot Banana Publishing (Thailand)
• BIR Publishing (South Korea)
• Bronze Publishing (Japan)
• Everafter Books - Beijing Everafter Culture Development Co., Ltd (China)
• Mayurpankhi (Bangladesh)

EUROPE

• Cicada Books (Great Britain)
• Fatatrac (Italy)
• Luitingh-Sijthoff (Netherlands)
• Pato Lógico (Portugal)
• Zahorí Books (Spain)

CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA

• Claraboya Ediciones (Chile) 
• Companhia das Letras (Brazil)
• Ediciones Iamiqué (Argentina)
• Ediciones Liebre (Chile)
• Lecturita Ediciones (Argentina)

NORTH AMERICA

• Candlewick Press (USA)
• Holiday House Publishing (USA)
• Orca Book Publishers (Canada)
• Red Comet Press (USA)
• Tra publishing (USA)

OCEANIA

• Affirm Press (Australia)
• Five Mile (Australia)
• Fremantle Press (Australia)
• Hardie Grant Children's Publishing (Australia)
• Mila's Books (New Zealand)