Shanghai Children’s Book Fair Postponed to Next Year

Children's books remain the brightest spot in the Chinese publishing industry, accounting for 27.7% of its overall book retail market in the first half of 2021. In recent months, popular science has overtaken fiction as the #1 category in this segment. Titles from the U.S., U.K., Japan, and France dominate the translated children's list, with recent bestsellers such as Bodo Schafer's A Dog Called Money, Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, Pascale Hedelin's The Human Body, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, and Anthony Browne's My Dad and My Mum.