At the 60th Bologna Children’s Book Fair held from March 6th to 9th, 2023, Chinese original children’s books achieved a historic record in
terms of awards and nominations.In the list of Best Children’s Book Awards an-nounced by the organizers, Whose Sock (《谁的袜子》, the Chinese edition of the book was published by To-morrow Publishing House, won the first prize in the Bo-logna Ragazzi Award BRAW Comics for early readers. Additionally, Thump! Thump! Thump! (《噔噔噔》, the Chinese edition was published by the 21st Century Pub-lishing Group, received Special Mention Award in the category of Fiction. Night Night (《晚安》,the Chinese version was published by Studio MARY of Hong Kong, was awarded Special Mention in the category of Comics for Young Adults.This year marks the highest number of Chinese orig-inal children’s books nominated and awarded in history and the best performance of Chinese original works in the Bologna Best Children’s Book Award selection. In addition, 15 Chinese illustrators (including those from Hong Kong and Taiwan) had their works selected for this year’s Bologna Illustrators Exhibition, and the ratio of Chinese illustrators winning awards has been increas-ing year by year.