The Bologna Children’s Book Fair awarded the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year during the programming of its 60th edition.

The prize was created ten years ago in partnership with the Association of Italian Publishers and is distributed in six regions of the world: Africa; Asia, Europe, North America; Caribbean, Central America and South America; and Oceania.

In this edition, the publishers of these regions elected their “sister houses” which stood out on criteria such as development, innovation, creativity and catalog quality.

Among the winners are the publisher Trinta Zero Nove, from Mozambique, representing the Africa. Created by Sandra Tamele, an international reference in encouraging reading and cultural projects, the publisher has already won the Excellence Awards 2021, at the London Fair, in the Literary Translation Initiative category and is now also presented at Bologna.

The jury pointed out that the Tamele publishing house, founded in 2018, is the “first independent publishing house dedicated to the publication of translated works in Mozambique”.

Representing the Asiathe winner is the Indian publisher Wonder House Books, which specializes in publishing interactive children’s books and whose mission is to “develop children’s interest in reading”.

Old Lion publishing house from Ukraine won the award Europe. Founded by Mariana Savka and based in Kiev, the publishing house produces picture books, poetry books, stories for school children, and also offers a series for teenagers, non-fiction works for different ages, among other genres.

The winner for Central and South America and the Caribbean is Editorial Amanuta, from Chile, which has been publishing illustrated books for children and adolescents since 2002. The publisher aims to offer innovative and creative proposals that adapt to current events in order to promote the development of young people with books that stimulate their creativity and imagination.

Representing the North America, the Canadian La Courte Échelle was chosen. The catalog includes books for different ages of young readers: hardbacks, picture books, and novels for tweens and teens. Acquired in 2015 by Mariève Talbot and Raymond Talbot and brought to the Short Scale Publishing Group in 2018, the house is aimed at consumers up to 18 years old.

Finally, representing Oceania, the winner was Magabala Books, one of Australia’s leading indigenous publishers. Non-profit, Magabala publishes illustrated books, memoirs, stories for young people, adolescents and adults, essays, graphic novels, social stories and poetry. Magabala’s commitment is focused on the development of new and emerging Indigenous writers, illustrators and storytellers and the protection of intellectual and cultural property.