It's been our 44th year to co-publish our books with overseas publishers.
To those who are interested in the different language editions of our picture books, this web site would be a good place to visit. You would enjoy our co-publishers' editions.
Should you have the Japanese OS, please check our Japanese corners, too!
Our recent new co-publishers are Yeson Media, Korea and Nord-Sud Verlag AG, Zurich, Switzerland. Both are publishing "the Squirrel Series" by Kazuo Iwamura.
Book Fair offers best business opportunities to publishers who want to sell rights of their books to publishers from various countries and advertise them to the public.
We, Shiko-Sha, have annually attended Frankfurt and Bologna Book Fairs over the years. The photograph below shows our booth at the 2009 Bologna Book Fair held from 23rd to 26th March: http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/
Bologna Book Fair is open not only to publishers, agents, authors but also many young illustrators. They can attend the fair to show their works to editors from various countries for promotion and discussing new book projects tete a tete.
Of course it's a place for serious business talks, but still it's the place where you would enjoy being a part of children's book business. To peak a tip of children's book scenes at the Bologna Book Fair, their web newspaper, "BOBOJO Bologna Book Journal" is a nice reading. You can get in the site via the main page URL above.
