Category: Bologna Children’s Book Fair
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Bologna 2025: Boys, blouses and a shared reality
Sustainability headlined the 2025 Bologna Children’s Book Fair, where Mary E. Glenn of UN Publications noted during the Sustainability Summit that “the rise in media misinformation, especially on social media, is a challenge because sustainability depends on having a shared reality.” For me, that was the key sentiment of the…
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Bologna 2024: Bums, blue seas and real books
A lot of talk about bums at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair this year! Bums can’t really be illustrated to children’s books in the United States. Or nudity in general. (Or dead bunnies.) Whereas in the rest of the world these are regular elements in children’s picture books. In a…
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Bologna 2023: Beauty, censorship and data
I gave a masterclass talk on Data Visualization and Nonfiction Picture Books on March 8th, at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy. Thank you everyone who came! I had a focused audience that asked brilliant questions (“Can you show examples of emotional structures in data illustrations?” I will…
Illustrating Data 