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The Bologna Children's Book Fair
Every spring, Bologna hosts the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the most important international trade fair for children's and young-adult publishing. It is a professional event: publishers, agents, illustrators and translators come to buy and sell rights, look for new authors and illustrators, and meet partners from all over the world. Illustrators traditionally pin their portfolios to a wall in the hope of being noticed. Rights trading at fairs runs on appointments booked weeks in advance, often half an hour each, one after another all day. Books for adults are traded mainly at other fairs, above all the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, but publishers with mixed lists use every meeting they can. The language of these meetings is famously cautious. Non è detto che, può darsi che, caso mai and è probabile che let a publisher show interest without committing — and, as Marta says, a request to «send the sheet» is often the most positive thing one hears.