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An "upbeat" and busy Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025 has seen a marked appetite for shorter and illustrated works - despite there being no runaway book of the fair - though the grim state of geopolitics dimmed many fairgoers' moods.
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The global graphic novel market is getting more attention in Bologna this year, with an expanded number of exhibitors and panels dedicated to the topic. "Graphic novels represent one of the most significant growth areas in children's publishing globally," Peter Warwick, CEO of Scholastic, said during a panel celebrating the 20th anniversary of Scholastic's Graphix imprint. He pointed out that author Dav Pilkey's latest book sold more than two and a half million copies worldwide since its December release and attributed at least some of that success to the format's particular appeal to boys. "Our most recent event with Dav in the U.K. was in a venue that seated 2,000 people. It was full. Of the children who were there, over 90% were boys."
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The explosion of generative artificial intelligence technologies, including such large language models as ChatGPT, caught many in the book business off guard when it began in earnest in late 2023. Once it became clear that those models had been trained on vast amounts of copyrighted material without permission or compensation, publishing found itself thrown without warning into the ring with Big Tech.
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If you're self-publishing, designing a professional-quality book cover can make the difference between attracting readers or getting overlooked.
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I started Forest Avenue Press in 2012 to publish the kinds of novels I love to read.
When I started, to give authors a chance, I read hundreds of pages of submissions that didn't appeal to me. After all, I had been sitting on the other side of the editorial desk for years, dreaming of acceptance. How could I say no to a novel without reading 50 pages and seeing if the fifty-first was where the story really started?
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