Bologna Children's Book Fair

Publishers, producers & developers! Submissions are now open for the 6th edition of the 2026 BolognaRagazzi CrossMedia Awards, featuring an exciting new category: Gender Equality & Environmental Sustainability 🌱 Info & entry rules here: bit.ly/BRAWCM #BRAWCrossMedia

Ppppst, publishers 👀 the #BolognaRagazziAwards 2026 submissions are OPEN! 5 main categories + this year's special one: Fables & Fairy Tales! Head to the website for more info. Deadline is Jan 31, 2026! 🔗bit.ly/BRAW26

Ready, illustrators? The 60th edition of the #IllustratorsExhibition is open! All the details are on our website. Pro tip: early submissions = less stress! Don't wait until the very last minute 😅 🔗bit.ly/IE_2026 #mostraillustratori #bolognachildrensbookfair #bcbf

Bologna Opens Its Ragazzi Award Applications for 2026 | @Porter_Anderson publishingperspectives.com/2025/07/bologn… @BoChildrensBook #BCBF26 @BolognaBookPlus @GallimardJeun @bodour @KalimatGrp @GvantsaJobava @intpublishers

🇬🇷 #BCBF lands in Thessaloniki! From 8–11 May, we’re bringing a slice of Bologna to Greece for Italy’s Guest of Honour programme at Thessaloniki International Book Fair with panels, a 2025 Illustrators Exhibition preview and much more. Read more here🔗bit.ly/3SousV8

📣#BCBF25 may be over, but the Virtual Illustrators Wall is back! Illustrators, upload your work and show your art to publishers, agents & fans worldwide. 🗓️ Deadline: 10 May 2025 🔗 Info & upload: bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/events/open… #bolognachildrensbookfair

Now we can shout it: #BCBF25 HAS BEEN A BLAST! See you next year 🫶

#UNPublications was honored to moderate the panel “From Global Reading to Local Actions: New SDG Book Club Chapters Continue to Drive Change” at the #BCBF25. The Brazilian, German and Mexican #SDGBookClub chapters shared how they encourage kids to read and act for the #SDG.

From the first book he ever bought at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Neal Porter took us on a heartfelt journey through the picturebooks he has helped travel across the publishing world over the years, all different but all “uncannily attuned to the child”.

#BCBF25 celebrated Barbara Chiamaka Chukwu and Kayode Onimole, illustrators of the winning project from the Make-a-Picturebook workshop, which provided promising African artists with the tools and resources to break into the international publishing market 🌍

Assieme alla scrittrice, traduttrice e editor Beatrice Masini, la poetessa Mariangela Gualtieri ci ha presentato il suo “Album per pensare e non pensare,” un libro non esclusivamente per bambini, ma per tutti i “bambini interiori” 💖

At the Illustrators Survival Corner, panelists discussed how self-publishing can create opportunities for creative freedom and how authors can work to promote visibility as much as possible, starting from an effective book cover ✨

This morning, the #PublisHer Lounge was buzzing with creativity and excitement as authors and illustrators spent some time getting to know each other’s projects- not without a cup of coffee! ☕️

It was an immense pleasure to open our first international @PublisHerEvents Lounge at @BoChildrensBook. We’re creating practical pathways for women to lead and excel in publishing.

#Bologna Alle 10.30 al The Content Café della @BoChildrensBook per l'incontro "Andrea Camilleri ieri, oggi e domani: 100 anni di vita e di storie" con Antonio Sellerio, Marta Vesco, Paolo Verri, Lorenzo Mattotti, modera Ivan Canu. sellerio.it/it/catalogo/Gu…

Reading is an intimate act and “these subjects need intimacy”. Yesterday, a brilliant panel enlightened the audience with an empowering discussion of gender identity, sexuality and their crucial representations in literature beyond mere tokenism. #GlobalGoals #SDGBookClub

Can you believe it’s day 3 of #BCBF25 already? We hope you are still full of energy as we have another exciting line-up of events ahead of us 💖 check out the highlights here: bolognachildrensbookfair.com/en/events/even… #bcbf25 #bbplus25 #bltfk25

“Advocating for children, childhood and reading” across the world, the International Children’s Laureates and Reading Ambassadors held an inspiring conversation on the work they are doing to dismantle barriers to literature for all youth 💖

“Children are individuals who deserve to be heard and taken seriously,” said Jan Björklund, the Swedish Ambassador to Italy, remembering Astrid Lindgren’s legacy at the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, which this year was presented to “uncompromising author” Marion Brunet.

In publishing, you so often hear that boys don’t read, but are we making the right books for them? 📚 Experts discussed the strong need for genuine and empowering stories for boys, just like the industry has done for girls.