Bologna Children's Books

As I mentioned before I bought this years catalogue and I must say that the standards are pretty immensely high to get into it. Also, don't know if it's just the lack of talent in England or something but only one British illustrator got in this year, Alice Melvin.

Who did this book, sold in lots of arty places like the Tate.

A few of my favourites were...

Jan-Hendrik Holst of Germany

Anna Blaszcyk of PolandAnd Maurizio Quarello of Italy


On the positive side they are around 70% unpublished and alot were around our age. Also what I noticed was that almost all were done by traditional means, especially etching and acrylic...Only about 5 or 6 were heavily computer based.

The deadline is October 15th for work for this years exhibition!