Children's books by Russian Publishers at the Shanghai Children's Book Fair
The Shanghai International Children's Book Fair ran from the 13th to 15th of November 2020, during which books were presented by 14 key players in the industry of Russian children's book publishers, including leading Russian museums: "V-A-C Press", "Apricotbooks" "Eye Books", "Alpina Children", "AST", "Albus Corvus", "Boom Kniga", The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and ABCdesign, The State Hermitage and "Arca" publishers, "Kit Read", "KompasGid", "Peshkom Books", "Pink Giraffe Books" and "Samokat".
The Russian programme was implemented by the Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) with participation from The Museum Line and New Moscow International Children's Book Fair (New MICBF) projects and supported by the Federal Agency of Print and Mass Media.

Despite the difficult circumstances of the world wide coronavirus pandemic and the cancellation of large amounts of events, including book fairs, the Shanghai Book Fair took place not only online, but foremost of all in an offline and customary format. The organizers of the fair offered foreign exhibitors a special format - Book Showcase, in which, along with guests from 21 other countries, New MICBF took part, presenting new books from Russian children's publishing houses and museums.

The Russian Book Showcase was presented by the Focus on Russia exhibition, which consisted of three main sections: Non-fiction for Children, Illustrated Books and Museum Line for Children.


Non Fiction for Children

Science journalists, museum experts (educators), sports commentators, film critics, music journalists, comic book writers were just some of the authors of Russian children's non-fiction who presented their books at the children's book fair in Shanghai. They spoke about ideas for their creations and discussed where the boundaries of the genre lie, how it differs from fiction and how to talk with children about science in an interesting, honest way without oversimplification.

On the Russian shelf in Shanghai such books were presented as: "Why Birds Don't Fly" by Ilya Kolmanovsky "Peculiar Parasites" by Alena Basnetsova "The Ball in the Game" by Alexei Durovo, "Paleontologists and their Pets" by Anton Nelikhova, "The Big Book of the Human Body" by Sergei and Natalia Gordienko and others.

The section of Illustrated books (as well as picture books, silent book and comics) presented the silent book "Grasshopper" by Tatiana Ukhova, a participant of the "100 Outstanding Books" chosen by the professional community dPICTUS at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the comic book "Sonya from the 7th Bleugh" , created in tandem by book designer Tim Yarzhombek and writer Alexei Oleinikov, as well as the book by Helen Mallet "Mona Ohlala" with illustrations by the artist and comic book author Varvara Pomidor.

In this section the following books were also presented: "Hello, horse!" by Asi Kravchenko, "Music of my Woodpecker" by Anna Anisimova, "Irochka" by Yulia Kuznetsova alongside others.

Museum Line for Children

The Museum Line presented in Shanghai a special section of books about art for children by leading Russian museums and publishers. Further details about the books in the Museum Line can be found here: http://mibf.info/museumline_ccbf2020.

The Museum Shelf contained books published by The Pushkin Sate Museum of Fine Arts, The V-A-C Foundation of Contemporary Art and publisher Alpina Children and also "A Journey through the Hermitage. Tsaritsa of the Tulips" the museum comic book guide for children and adults by the State Hermitage and publisher "Arca" author Dariya Agapova and artist Varvara Pomidor.

The new book series for children by V–A–C Press draws on the tradition of Soviet illustration and reflects contemporary artistic processes. The contemporary Russian artists who worked on the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde and Lewis Carroll that are published in this series, are Pavel Pepperstein, Svetlana Shuvaeva, Alexey Buldakov, and also designer Tigran Avetisyan.

The Book Series "Learning to Look" by The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts was created by ABCdesign, one of the leading Russian design studios, in close collaboration with the museum. The books are not only a window into the museum's halls and collections of amazing items and ideas, but a guide for young researchers of artistic territories.

Publisher "Alpina Children" released two books that can be described as simple guides and guidebooks to the complex world of cinema and music. The book "How to Watch a Movie" was written by renowned Russian film critic Anton Dolin and illustrated by Konstantin Bronzit, renowned animator and Oscar nominated artist. The book by musician and journalist Lyalya Kandaurova "How to Listen to Music" is illustrated by the young artist Ellis Mugafarova.

Especially for the Shanghai Book Fair, the New Moscow Children's Book Fair (New MICBF) has prepared an expanded virtual exhibition Focus on Russia with detailed information on participating books and publishing houses.

Instead of live meetings at the Shanghai Fair the New MICBF offered a programme of online interviews addressed to publishers, agents, editors, art directors, researchers, authors and artists from around the world. These talks were led by literary columnist Natalya Lomykina with science journalist and popularizer of science, author of the first children's science podcast in Russia, Ilya Kolmanovsky, and museum educator, international consultant Daria Agapova. In addition to this, the online program featured author's presentations from film critic Anton Dolin and musician and journalist Lyalya Kandaurova.

An important event was the video presentation of four new publications, the "Focus on Russia. New publications of childrens books: From 0 to 5", which have been released in Russia in the last few years, the youngest of which was born in Moscow during the pandemic and lockdown. The Russian market for publishing children's literature demonstrates rapid development, in response to the challenges of our time, and following global trends it is growing not only qualitatively, but also quantitatively.

Stories of young Russian publishers taking their first steps towards the international children's book publishing market can be found here.

What is the New MICBF?

In 2021, the New International Children's Book Fair (New MICBF 2021) will be held in Moscow. Russian-language children's literature, which has long been a serious player on the international professional scene, has shown outstanding progress in recent years: it is impossible to keep track of the number of new releases today, and the New MICBF is working to increase their number every year.

Children's literature is no longer one of the programs of an "adult" book fair, but an independent branch, where fiction and non-fiction, graphic novels and comics, book illustration and design, key players and new stars exist. The New MICBF 2021 will become a new place not only on the Russian map of children's literature, but also on the world map, a place where Russian and foreign writers will meet with readers, where literary agents will sign contracts for the publication of books with Russian and international publishing houses, where professionals around the world will discuss ethical and aesthetic issues of book publishing, exchange technologies and innovations.

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Curator of the NewMICBF programme at the Shanghai Children's Book Fair
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New MICBF 2021 is coming!
The New Moscow International Children's Book Fair (New MICBF 2021) presents books by Russian children's publishers at the China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair (CCBF 2020)! November 13-15, 2020

In Shanghai, the New Moscow International Children's Book Fair presents a book exhibition that combines several cross-cutting areas of the Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF) and the New Moscow International Children's Book Fair 2021 (New MICBF): non-fiction for children, picture book and silent book, comics and graphic novel, as well as museum edutainment, book illustration and design.
In 2021, Moscow will host the New International Children's Book Fair (NewMICBF2021), a joint project of MIBF with the world's leading Bologna Children Book Fair. Russian children's literature has long grown to a professional event of this scale: it is impossible to keep track of the number of new books on our own, and our goal is to keep them grow even more every year.

Children's literature is no longer the children's program of an "adult" book fair, but a professional industry with its own fiction and non-fiction, graphic novel and comics, illustration and design, its key players and new stars. NewMICBF will become a new place not only on the map of Russia of children's literature, but also on the world map, a place where they will buy and sell rights, discuss ethical and aesthetic issues of book publishing, share technologies and discover new professionals from all over the world to each other.

In anticipation of 2021, NewMICBF awaits publishers, agents, translators, editors, art directors, researchers, authors and artists for a special program as part of the Shanghai Children's Book Fair from November 13 to 15, 2020.

We have chosen the most interesting and bright, and we are going to continue in the same spirit!

For more information about books, publishers, authors, illustrators, including the first person on the site: micbf.mibf.info
Museum Line КIDS at CCBF 2020, November 13-15
Museum Line KIDS presents Russian and international art publishing for children, in Shanghai we will focus on museum edutainment, tales remade by contemporary artists and comics guides to art and culture.
Museum's Game Editions and Russian Comics
A special place in the collection of the Museum Line for CCBF 2020 is occupied by an exciting museum comic-guide for children and adults "Journey through the Hermitage. The Queen of Tulips" - an exciting museum comic-guide for children and adults published by The State Hermitage and ARKA Publishing House in 2018.
Daria Agapova, author, Russia
Varvara Pomidor, artist, illustrator, Russia
Art of Watching and Listening
This year Alpina Kids published two wonderful books that can be called the simplest guides to the complex maze of cinema and music. The book "How to watch a movie" is written by the famous Russian film critic Anton Dolin and illustrated by Konstantin Bronzit, a famous animator and artist, an Oscar nominee. "How to listen to music" by musician and journalist Lala Kandaurova.
Anton Dolin, film critic, journalist, Russia
Konstantin Bronzit, Oscar Nominee animator and artist, Russia
Lyalya Kandaurova, musician, journalist, Russia
Ellis Mugafarova, artist, illustrator, Russia
Ilya Kolmanovsky (science journalist, author of the podcast "Naked mole rat", author of non-fiction for children, Russia). Natalia Lomykina (journalist, Russia).

Ilya Kolmanovsky, science journalist, science writer, tells in an interview with journalist Natalya Lomykina about his book "Why Do Not Birds Fall?", how he worked on it and also that writing non-fiction is similar to shooting a moovie.
FOCUS ON RUSSIA. New MICBF2021 coming soon!

Discover the growing market for children's books in Russia!
Every year new children's publishing houses appear in Russia.
MICBF program "FOCUS ON RUSSIA" presents 4 of the brightest new projects of the Russian children's book publishing industry over the past five years, including even the current period of the pandemic. It helps to recognize newcomers, find books, authors and illustrators for a diverse audience from toddlers to teens, stimulate international sales of rights and partnerships.

Participants:
Maria Zimina (co-founder of the children's literature bookstore Chudetstvo), Anastasia Troyan (editor-in-chief, Kit (Whale) publishing house), Natalia Eichwald (CEO Publishing House 5/4 (Five Quarters), Ananstasia Orlova (editor-in-chief of "Anastasia Orlova's Book House"), Igor Grizhuk (Foreign Rights and Licensing manager at Apricot Publishing LLC).
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