The dPICTUS guest curators have put together an eclectic selection of international picturebooks, to be showcased in Bologna and here on the dPICTUS platform.
Discover the selection >45 publishers assessed over 500 unpublished picturebook projects from around 60 countries. Here are their favourite projects!
The selected projects >Twelve of the world's finest contemporary picturebook makers take us behind the scenes. Discover the immense creative potential of this unique and dynamic art form.
Discover the book >Issa Watanabe
Libros del Zorro Rojo, Spain
JuLi Litkei
Editions La Joie de lire, Switzerland
Pedro Alcalde & Guim Tió
Zahorí Books, Spain
Huiyang Lv & Yingda Dong
Everafter Books, China
Kristin Roskifte
Magikon Forlag, Norway
Hannah Arnesen
Orecchio Acerbo, Italy
Eva Lindström
Alfabeta Bokförlag, Sweden
Julie Flett
Greystone Kids/Aldana Libros , Canada
Alejandra Kamiya & Yael Frankel
Limonero, Argentina
Daniela Berti
Topipittori, Italy
Sara Lundberg
Natur & Kultur, Sweden
Gerda Dendooven
Querido, Belgium
Thomas Medard & Lisbeth Renardy
Editions Les Fourmis Rouges, France
Sergio Olivotti & GIULIA PASTORINO
Corraini Edizioni, Italy
Anna Höglund
Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden
Katerina Voronina
Éditions de La Pastèque, Canada
Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo P. Carvalho
Planeta Tangerina, Portugal
Spider
Orecchio Acerbo, Italy
Anna Kaźmierak
Wytwórnia, Poland
Gianni Rodari & Beatrice Alemagna
Edizioni EL, Italy
Alice KOLB
Hélium, France
Daniel Sjölin & Eva Lindström
Bonnier Carlsen, Sweden
Laurent Moreau
Hélium, France
Charles Berbérian
La Martiniere Jeunesse, France
Roberto Piumini & Irene Volpiano
Orecchio Acerbo, Italy
Alex Killian & Brooke Smart
Greystone Kids/Aldana Libros , Canada
Cao Wenxuan & Britta Teckentrup
Jieli Publishing House, China
Núria Solsona
Zahorí Books, Spain
Emma Simpson
Comme des géants, Canada
Sara Lundberg
Bonnier Carlsen, Sweden
Armin Greder
Orecchio Acerbo, Italy
Emilie Leduc
Monsieur Ed, Canada
Marina Philippart
BELGIUM
“dPICTUS is a beautiful and comfortable meeting point where we can share our brand new projects with interesting publishers. We join with the principle: bring another friend with you.”
“I use dPICTUS to access online versions of picturebooks I’ve seen and discussed at book fairs. I also look at books in advance of the fairs by publishers I like. It’s a great product!”
“It’s great to find such high quality titles on dPICTUS, and the publishing houses here are very interesting. I know many of them well and we often meet at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.”
“We’re big fans of dPICTUS here at Orfeu Negro – especially the buying team. We simply love it and we’ve presented it to other publishers, who love it too. It’s a very useful platform.”
“dPICTUS is a lovely place, inhabited by nice people and full of wonderful selected books. It’s a very useful tool to stay up to date with new titles from interesting publishers.”
“On dPICTUS, I feel like I really belong to a community of like-minded publishers with a mutual understanding of what makes a beautiful, modern picturebook. A wonderful tool for business.”
“dPICTUS is a fantastic concept! My clients find it very useful to browse titles prior to our meeting at the book fairs and they are glad to get such a nicely presented overview of what’s new. The platform is easy to use and it looks fabulous.”
“I’m very excited about dPICTUS and I’m honoured to be a part of it. It helps us stay up to date with the most interesting new picturebooks from around the world; in fact, we’ve just published a stunning title which I discovered on the platform.”
Johanna Schaible is an artist whose work moves along the borders of illustration, art, and design. She has a degree in Illustration and Visual Communication from the Lucerne School of Art and Design, and she was one of the first members of Bolo Klub, a collective supporting an emerging generation of picturebook makers in Switzerland.
See this post from Johanna Schaible >Harriet van Reek made her book debut in 1986 with ‘De Avonturen van Lena Lena’. Since then, she’s worked on a wide variety of art projects, often in collaboration with Geerten Ten Bosch. Harriet has received many awards for her work over the years, including the Gouden Griffel, the Gouden Penseel and Zilveren Penseel awards.
See this post from Harriet van Reek >Marika Maijala lives and works in Helsinki as an illustrator and children’s book writer. Her debut as a children’s author, ‘Rosie’s Journey’ was nominated for the Nordic Council Children’s and Young People’s Literature Prize, and selected for the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition. In 2020, Marika was nominated for the ALMA.
See this post from Marika Maijala >Ingrid Godon is a Flemish artist and book illustrator. Since the 1980s, she’s illustrated many books for adults and children, some of which have been translated into dozens of languages. Ingrid has won a large number of awards over the years, and has been nominated four times for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA).
See this post from Ingrid Godon >Axel Scheffler has illustrated some of the world’s most well-loved children’s books. ‘The Gruffalo’ is considered one of the most successful picturebooks of all time, having been translated into 86 languages/dialects and sold over 14 million copies. Axel was born in Hamburg, and has lived and worked in London since the 1980s.
See this post from Axel Scheffler >ATAK (Georg Barber) is an artist, graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Berlin. He’s had many solo exhibitions and worked on a variety of books, comics and illustrations for publications such as TIME and The New York Times. ATAK is also Professor of Illustration at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle.
See this post from ATAK >(Over 700 publishers, agents and editors from around 50 countries are members of the dPICTUS community)