The Bologna Children's Book Fair is a showcase for Canadian publishers of all kinds. Together they represent the outstanding quality and creativity of Canadian publishing. Here you will find a collection of some of their titles for your perusal.
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Independent Canadian Publishers at the 2024 Bologna Children's Book Fair
Asha and the Toymaker
A heartwarming story about the value of art, set in the evocative Blue City of India.
Asha's papa makes and sells wooden toys to pay for her to go to school. But Papa struggles to find buyers. And this ...
Mira and Baku
A Quill & Quire Book of the Year
With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese Canadian incarceration in World War II.
It’s ...
The Definition of Beautiful
Shortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s
Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages ...
Tales for Late Night Bonfires
Curious, uncanny tales blending Indigenous oral storytelling and meticulous style, from an electric voice in Canadian fiction
These are stories that are a little bit larger than life, or maybe they really ...
Animal Eyes
Nominated for the 2024 Yellow Cedar Award
Imagine being able to see in ultraviolet wavelengths, or locating your next meal in near darkness, or being able to rotate your eyes independently so you can ...
We Love You as Much as the Fox Loves Its Tail
“We’ll love you as much as the narwhal loves its tusk.
We’ll love you as much as the seal loves its musk.
Little One, our new baby,
Welcome to our family.”
This loving bedtime poem shares all the ...
Heart Berry Bling
On a visit to her granny, Maggie is excited to begin her first-ever beading project: a pair of strawberry earrings. However, beading is much harder than she expected! As they work side by side, Granny ...
Becoming Bionic and Other Ways Science Is Making Us Super
Take a tour of the science of superpowers and see how science fiction is becoming science fact
If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Fly like Shazam? Turn invisible like Violet Parr? Or maybe ...
Otis & Peanut
A quirky and iconic new series of stories about friendship and belonging, in the style of Frog and Toad
A long-haired guinea pig and a naked mole rat may seem like unlikely friends, but Otis and Peanut ...
Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake
Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake shows teachers how to confront racism and disrupt discrimination in order to deepen students’ understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Background information, ...