Category: Children’s Books
Arab book market focus: Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival 2022 (UAE)
The Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival is one of the biggest children’s literary events in the...
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Bologna’s digital numbers set new records, but you could be forgiven for not realising
The BCBF website attracted 2 million views. There were 200,000 unique users signed in, of which...
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Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair postponed. Will now run with Bologna. But is either event realistic right now?
With London, Bologna and now Shanghai all lining up for the spring it could be a very exciting...
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Denmark’s SAGA Egmont launches global digital imprint for kids
SAGA Egmont publishes in over thirty languages and famously claims its trademark to be that...
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Byju’s acquires children’s reading platform Epic for $500 million in another seismic shift in the publishing landscape
Overseas capital continues to flood the North America publishing market, entering key digital...
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Sharjah will be Bologna 2022 Guest of Honour as Bologna ‘21 clocks 75,000 digital visitors
We do have a “final” figure of 75,000 visitors, and counting. And that’s one of the beauties of...
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Debut children’s author from Qatar makes shortlist for international indie book award
Published by Qatar’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) and written by debut author...
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Mapping the New Normal – Bologna Children’s Book Fair doubles its audience by going online at last minute. Imagine what it could achieve if this were fully planned…
While not the first publishing event to be hit, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair was one of the...
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UAE’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair cancelled. Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh IBF and Iran’s Tehran IBF now cancellations waiting to happen
The United Arab Emirates had already take the decision to close its nursery schools, but has now...
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Yiddish edition of Harry Potter sells out first run in 48 hours
A 1,000 print run may seem tiny in some publishing communities, but in others it’s a demonstration...
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Saving Charlotte Brontë’s Red House; The Brideshead Festival; A new Alice In Wonderland exhibition
We start the day global today in the UK, and stay there for all three stories, which are about...
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Kay Thompson’s "Eloise" IP sold for film, TV and stage adaptations 65 years after first publication. A reminder of the enduring power of publishing’s backlist
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1955, the Eloise books have sold more than 15 million...
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