Bologna’s 2024 Shortlist for Best Children’s Publishers

In Feature Articles by Porter Anderson

Set for an awards announcement Monday evening, Bologna’s Prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year is a peer-driven honor set in six parts of the world.

At the Palazzo d’Accursio, the Sala Farnese, during an awards ceremony at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Image: BCBF

By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson

Winners To Be Named Monday
As sought-after as the Bologna Ragazzi Awards are at Bologna Children’s Book Fair (April 8 to 11)—and the exhibition of this year’s winners will be online as of Monday (April 8) in the BCBF Galleries—the honor most hoped for by publishers are the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year.

This set of awards was created about a decade ago in cooperation with the Association of Italian Publishers (Associazione Italiana Editori) and is handed out in six geographically defined regions of the world:

  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • The Caribbean, Central and South America
  • Oceania

In an interesting feature, the jury for this award is the world’s publishers.

They vote for their sister houses that have been standouts in various developments of innovation, creativity, and “the quality of their editorial choices”—an intriguing criterion in itself, considering the vast range of topical content and debate now embraced by the industry serving younger readers.

The period for registering votes ended on March 20. And on Monday (April 8), the winners are scheduled to be announced.

Here’s the shortlist for this year’s honorees.

Bologna Prize: Best Children’s Publishers of the Year
2024 Shortlists

Africa

Asia

Europe 

Caribbean and Latin America

North America

Oceania

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Porter Anderson

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Porter Anderson has been named International Trade Press Journalist of the Year in London Book Fair's International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. Anderson was for more than a decade a senior producer and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN USA. As an arts critic (Fellow, National Critics Institute), he was with The Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Tampa Tribune, now the Tampa Bay Times. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for authors, which now is owned and operated by Jane Friedman.