Apr
6
Bologna Book Fair 2018
The 2018 Bologna Children's Book Fair took place from 26th-29th March. This was my fifth visit to Bologna, but it's been six years since I was last at the Fair, book deadlines have kept me away since I stepped down from volunteering with the biennial SCBWI Stand, so this was a very overdue return to the Halls!
Preparation & Planning
Partly I was there to report on the Fair for Words and Pictures, the journal of SCBWI British Isles (my essay on the Fair is here), but for my personal agenda I had three very distinct plans for Bologna. Firstly, to hear the announcement of the winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, for which I was enormously gratified to be shortlisted this year.
Preparation & Planning
Partly I was there to report on the Fair for Words and Pictures, the journal of SCBWI British Isles (my essay on the Fair is here), but for my personal agenda I had three very distinct plans for Bologna. Firstly, to hear the announcement of the winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, for which I was enormously gratified to be shortlisted this year.
