Bologna Children's Book Fair

Key facts

Attendance 2025

33 318

Exhibitors

1 577

Floor space

—

Admission

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Frequency

Annual

Editions

1 (2026)

Attendance and exhibitor figures for 2025 are the organizer's own and are not independently audited. They may include co-located or joint exhibitions.

Bologna Children's Book Fair is an annual trade fair in Bologna covering activity books, children's books and gadgets & gifts. The most recent edition on record ran 13–16 April 2026 at BolognaFiere; no future date has been announced. The 2025 edition reported 33,318 visitors and 1,577 exhibitors, a figure published by the organiser and not independently audited. Organised by BolognaFiere.

What is exhibited

• Activity books
• Audiobooks
• Calendars
• Children's books
• Comics
• Dictionaries
• Digital platforms & web services
• Distribution
• E-books
• Fiction
• Gadgets & gifts
• Hardcover books
• Language courses
• Multimedia publishing
• Newspapers & magazines
• Packaging
• Picture books
• Pop-up books
• Postcards
• Posters
• Printing

J-messe subject tags

JETRO's own classification, kept verbatim. Fairs carry several; the sector in the sidebar is the single one this site browses by.

• Books & Libraries
• Media & Audiovisual

Editions on record

Every dated instance of this fair the database holds. A series keeps one identity across renames and moves; each row below is one edition of it.

Where this came from

Field-level provenance for the most recent edition: what each fact came from, how far it is trusted, and when it was last checked.