Bologna Children's Book Fair, 8-11 April 2024

BCBF

BBPLUS

BLTF

CCBF

The Bologna Grand Tour

Third stop in Guadalajara,
from 25 November.

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An espresso with...

The third espresso is with Ioannis Kranias.

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Ticket Online

Early bird price up to 09/02/2024

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BCBF 2024 - Visual Identity

The new look of Bologna Children's Book Fair for the newx edition.

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The road to BCBF 2024

The first anticipations of edition no. 61.
Bologna, 8 to 11 April 2024.

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BolognaBookPlus - Seminars

Submit your pitch, before January 8th 2024

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Interested in Exhibiting?

Application for 2024 BCBF, BBPlus, BLTF/Kids is online.

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BRAW Crossmedia

4th edition of the BolognaRagazzi Crossmedia Award.
Entries are open for youngsters multimedia projects.

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BRAW 2024

Take part to the 2024 BolognaRagazzi Award.
From this year a new permanent category - Toddlers!

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BRAW - The Sea

2024 BolognaRagazzi Award Special Category.
Publishers are invited to enter sea-themed books released in the last 6 years.

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Immerse yourself in Children's Content!

Bologna Children’s Book Fair enters its seventh decade with continued passion and pride of having created a network of initiatives ranging from Bologna to Shanghai, from children's books to licensing and, with its most recent initiative, BolognaBookPlus, serving general trade publishing.

From October 2023 to February 2024, the third Grand Tour, a fully-fledged journey around the world, will see the Bologna suite of three fairs take part in five prestigious international stages: Frankfurt, New York, Guadalajara, London and New Delhi.

BCBF, BBPlus, and BLTF look forward to seeing you in Bologna in 2024, April 8-11

The BCBF Event Network

This exciting initiative was launched in 2021 to run in parallel to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, reaching a wider professional general trade audience across the global publishing industry.
In 2023, Greece has been the Market of Honour of the third edition
The fourth edition will be co-located with Bologna Children’s Book Fair, 8 to 11 April 2024.

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BLTF/Kids is now an integral part of BCBF. Bringing together key players in the entertainment and international licensing world, BLTF host 600 brands, a Licensing Retail Lounge, its Fashion Product Showcase and an area dedicated to licensees in search of new business.
The next edition of BLTF/Kids will be held 8-11 Aprile 2024.

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2023 CCBF 10th anniversary took place on 17-19 November on the ground floor of the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre. CCBF is the only book fair in Asia Pacific fully dedicated to books and other contents for children co-organised by BolognaFiere/Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

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BCBF TV

BCBF 2023, "How artificial intelligence technology can change the publishing industry"

BCBF 2023, Halls 25 & 26

BCBF 2023, Bologna Licensing Trade Fair/Kids #BLTF23

BCBF 2023, the presentation of BolognaBookPlus #BBplus23

BCBF 2023 Morning Walk-Through Day 1

BCBF 2023 Morning Walk-Through Day 4

BCBF 2023, Hall 29

BCBF 2023, a talk with Suzy Lee, winner of the 2022 H.C. Andersen Award

BCBF 2023, still rocking at sixty!

BCBF2023 - The state of artificial intelligence - Friend or foe?

BCBF 2023, Authors vs artificial intelligence

BCBF 2023, Hall 30

BCBF 2023, Censorship: the state of children's book banning in the world and what's being done?

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Highlights

Entries are open

BolognaRagazzi CrossMedia Award 2024

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Nomination time for publishers

Bologna Prize Best Children’s Publishers of the Year

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BolognaBookPlus 2024

Call for Seminars

Send your Pitch

Entries are open

2024 BolognaRagazzi Awards

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The winning books

STREGA PRIZE RAGAZZE E RAGAZZI 2023

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Cover by Paloma Valdivia

2024 Illustrators Annual

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7th Edition

Bologna Licensing Awards

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In 2024, in Trieste

39° International IBBY Congress

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Translating Children's Literature: Juggling Between Boundaries

The conference, organised by Ceatl (Europen Council of Literary Translators' Associations) in collaboration with explores the difficult art of translating for children ...

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Not Everything Translates. Why Some Comics Work Internationally and Others Don't

Rights sales are a complex business as a huge seller in one country can just not work or even interest readers/publishers in another.

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Reinventing Calvino: a talk with his translators

Bologna Children's Book Fair 2023 invited some of the translators of Italo Calvino's books, one of the most loved, read and translated Italian writers. One hundred ...

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Tradurre il Giappone: il fenomeno manga

Born in Japan where it is one of the largest sectors of the country’s publishing industry, MANGA comics are enormously popular among the younger generations, ...

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

International Kids Licensing Days

International Kids Licensing Days, the series of conferences on the latest trends in children's content, is back for the third year running. Spanning licensing, ...

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TRAINING COURSE

Writing & Self-Publishing @BBPLUS2023

Bologna Book Plus confirms for 2023 its attention to authors and writers - whether they want to publish with a publisher, to self-publish or make writing their ...

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TRAINING COURSE

Call your Agent: How to Become a Successful Literary Agent

The training conference aimed at those who are thinking of a career in literary representation or are in the early stages of working in this area.

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TRAINING COURSE

How to Sell Rights and Understand Licensing in Children’s Books

This training event ensured that you understand the cornerstone of copyright, and the essential steps of rights selling, whether you are starting off, or considering ...

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