Angela Keoghan kicked off her international children’s book career by visiting Bologna Book Fair in 2015, and she has been going there every year since. She makes the argument for NZ illustrators to go to the other side of the world to see how everyone else is working, in order to create a sustainable career. Let me tell you how I managed to get an international career in illustrating books, by going to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. The Italian city of Bologna inspired me

UNESCO City of Literature Dunedin were offered an opportunity they couldn't ignore: to bid to have a stand at the Bologna Children's Book Fair earlier this month. Ella West reports. Hall 26, stand B/76 bis – that was Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair. We were there amongst the 1,200 stands which covered 20,000m² of floor space, with 98 countries represented and 35,000 people looking, from 3–6 April in a city in Northern Italy at th