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Bologna Children's Book Fair 2026

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Fiera Bologna is preparing for the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2026 which will occur between the 13th and 16th of April 2026.
Preface
The Bologna Children's Book Fair (BCBF) is one of the publishing industry’s leading trade fairs. It is an annual event that occurs in Fiera Bologna. It attracts diverse participants such as publishers, writers, transcribers, and literary agencies. Virtual media experts, teachers, critics, and distributors also attend the fair. Additionally, editorial directors, consultants, app creators, and audiobook experts take part. Booksellers, packagers, printers, librarians, and end users attend the fair. This results in a participation rate of over 1 000 exhibiting firms from 90 countries. Additionally, the event receives over 20 000 visitants. This includes one record-setting rendition, which featured over 75,000 attendees. The BCBF is a trade fair that provides over 250 sub-events. They enable participants to achieve goals such as exchanging ideas, networking, showcasing products, and earning recognition.
About the Bologna Children's Book Fair
Various sectors attend the BCBF. These include libraries, books, publishing, and printing segments. The education, hobbies, gaming, mass media, IT, services, baby, kids, maternity, and health industries also attend. The event features a diversity of sub-events. Examples include various awards, such as the Bologna Ragazzi Award and Bologna Ragazzi Cross Media Award. The fair also includes expositions such as the Illustrators and Books on the Move. Attendees can also visit the Illustrators, Translators Centre, Comics Corner, Booksellers Lounge, Literary Agents, and Teachers' focus zones. The fair also presents the wares of leading companies such as:
- Hasbro;
- HarperCollins Publishers;
- LEGO® Books;
- Lonely Planet;
- Oxford University Press;
- PONS GmbH;
- Curtis Brown;
- Writers House;
- The Bent Agency.
Bologna Children's Book Fair Accommodation
Procure suitable accommodation for BCBF with Travel 2 Fairs Ltd. All that is necessary is to inform us about the rooms you need, how much you wish to spend, and your desired location. Travel 2 Fairs Ltd manages the rest. Reserve lodgings adjacent to Fiera Bologna. This will improve your commuting time by gaining invaluable public transport access. We can inform you of the top-quality routes to take to the locale. Apart from reasonable lodging accommodation for expositions, we likewise provide transport services. One travel method to your hotel is to have a rentable car expecting you at the airport. Another is to schedule a two-way airport transfer.
Event information may be out-of-date due to the pandemic. More information is accessible from the organiser.
Past Iterations
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2022
The 2022 edition of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair took place as an in-person event at the Fiera Bologna. The hosting dates were set between the 21st and 24th of March 2022. Coronavirus safeguards were implemented at the venue. This included attendees needing to show 3G entry documents, such as proof of recovery. The edition received 1 070 exhibiting firms from 90 countries and 21 432 visitants. Over 300 journalists also attended the edition, which marked the successful restart of the event.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2023
The 2023 iteration of the event received 1 456 exhibiting firms from approximately 90 nations and 28 894 visitants. This signified a 35% increase compared to the previous iteration. A total of 325 sub-events were held during the hybrid trade exhibition held in Fiera Bologna. The complementary digital platform received 2 million website views, 800 illustrators from 70 nations, and 200 000 participants with 60% engaging from abroad. The social media communities comprised of 80 000 Facebook, 90 000 Instagram, and 10 000 LinkedIn followers. Over 750 media experts (35% of them from abroad) representing 33 countries attended the event.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2024
The 2024 iteration of BCBF was a live trade exposition hosted in Fiera Bologna. It received more than 1 500 exhibiting firms from approximately 100 nations and over 31 700 visitants from more than 190 countries.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2025
BCBF 2025 took place as a live trade expo in Fiera Bologna. It featured the wares of 1 577 exhibiting firms from 95 nations and 33 318 visitants (a 5% increase compared to 2024). Over 2 000 000 pageviews from 180 countries were received via the event's social media and event website.
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Our visitors for the event


Dear Mr. Hansen,
Thank you very much for the e-mail and for the kind words. It will be a pleasure for me to contact you again in case we need accommodation. All the best to you and have a nice day!
Kind regards,
Stanislava Petrova

The hotel was very nice and very close to the fair and we even had some of our customers staying there which was a +.
The only issue was that it was a bit loud due to other guests in the hotel.
As for Tracy she did her job perfectly and we are satisfied with her.
Geofluid 2023

Thank you Tom.
All went very well. Thank you again for your assistance.
Kind Regards,

Christine was of great help to us to coordinate our booking and to plan our stay. The trip and fair went all good and we came back very satisfied. Thank you for your support and professionalism.

Dear Tess,
Thank you for your email and please note that we have been very happy with accommodation during ITB 2018 and your service.
With very best regards,
Ms Iren Ghahramanyan

Hi Edward,
Good morning and hope you are fine. It was a pleasure working with you. Your support was fantastic and the Hotel was fantastic also.
I will sure contact you in the future for further fairs.
Regards,
Charles

Hello Ben,
Perfect. All was perfect and its not the first time working with your company. We are very satisfied by your work.
EUROGUSS - 2024

Very good services from Ellie and T2F, the hotel is very nice, small basic rooms, clean with good breakfast.
Regards,
Brenton Steven Leo

Dear Megan,
Thank you, it went very well. Hotel was nice and I liked the location very much. Would have been nice with a chair and maybe a small desk in the room, but no biggie.
I will probably buy via our cruise network next time, I usually do, so not relevant.
Med venlig hilsen/best regards
Torsten Engsig

In my opinion it was a great location for us. Staff was courteous and nice. Rooms were spacious. Breakfasts were very good with lots of choices. There was a. It of outside noise that bothered the odd person but nothing that was unbearable.
I would definitely stay there again if we were to go back to Hannover.
But that’s just my 2 cents worth.

Hello,
Thank you for your email and services. Indeed my colleagues have come back and are very satiesfied with their visit.
Also we have learned the lesson and knowing that we may be going to the IBC2020, we are thinking of making a very early booking. Is that possible?
What options you can provide, it can include the Olympic Hotel, as they were satisfied, but also other similar options close to RAI.
Looking forward to your answer,
Ieva
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