Why visit the Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Admission to the Bologna Children's Book Fair is strictly reserved for the trade.
Strictly NO children or under 18's (no nursery service provided).  

Who can access the Bologna Children’s Book Fair as a visitor:

•  publishers of children’s books and multimedia products
•  publishers of teaching aids for primary and secondary schools
•  authors
•  literary agents
•  illustrators
•  translators
•  TV/Film producers
•  licensors and licensees
•  packagers
•  printers
•  distributors
•  business developers
•  booksellers
•  librarians
•  teachers
•  publishing services suppliers
•  international organizations

Why visit the Bologna Children’s Book Fair?

Meet the prestigious international community of children’s publishers
Children’s book publishers from all over the world have been meeting every spring in Bologna for 47 years. Visiting the Fair means getting in touch with the prestigious international community of the industry professionals.
It represents a unique opportunity to learn about the most diverse aspects of a qualified market, which Bologna articulates in its true global dimension.
Discover innovations in one overall glance
Novelties, trends, innovative proposals, and original cross-cultural creations will be presented in Bologna in a wide context, which anchors a great tradition, emerging realities, and personalities who just entered the copyright market of children’s and young adults’ cultural contents.
Trading copyrights in specialized, brilliant professional contexts
The publishers of the “educational” sector, literary agents, TV and Film producers, developers of licensing and new business projects, illustrators, and translators do have reserved spaces specially geared to facilitate specific contacts multiplying business opportunities and optimizing the time spent at the Fair.

Beside the exhibition of worldwide children's publishing:

- The Literary Agents Centre, a privileged place for the copyright exchange of children’s and young adults’ market, guarantees professional and qualified assistance to literary agents.
- TV & Film Rights Centre, the most brilliant international forum for children’s copyright exchange. A go-between environment mid-way between books and movies, paper characters and digital ones. Meeting point and business setting among publishers, TV/Film producers, and licensing developers.
Registration form soon online
- Illustrators Exhibition, the largest and most prestigious international gallery of the most innovative trends in children’s content illustration.

- Illustrators Café, the exclusive get-together where publishers, illustrators and writers meet.
Do you want to take a look at the 2009 meetings programme?

For further information please contact:

Visitor Services
Art4 srl
Via Mazzini 18
40138 Bologna - Italy
Tel. 39 051 3951120
Fax 39 051 3951130
email: visitorinfo@art4.it

Bologna Children's Book Fair
Piazza Costituzione, 6
40128 Bologna - Italy
Tel. 39-051-282361
Fax 39 051 6374011
Email: bookfair@bolognafiere.it