A few months ago we had the opportunity to meet the illustrator Gwen Stok & Paul Bierhaus from studio YipYip. We discussed their adaptation of Toon Tellegen book "A Distant Journey".

Launched in 2014 to promote the digital transition and internationalisation of the children’s publishing industry, the Transbook European project has reached its end. A closing conference was set up on June 11 to review its highlights.

For the last year of the Transbook project and working in close collaboration with Hamelin, we had planned a beautiful program for the 55th edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

In March, at the 33rd International Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Transbook hosted its fourth programmer symposium. Nadia Budde, the German illustrator of “One, two, three, me”, attended the event, as did Frédéric Gauthier, one of the founders of the Quebecois publishing company “La Pastèque”, and Ben Newman, the illustrator of the successful “Professor Astrocat” series. Their contributions to the symposium helped explore what makes a digital literature project a good one.

On 10 November 2017, the team at Pop Up (a non-profit cultural organisation based in Peterborough, UK) hosted education and cultural mediation professionals to discuss creative ways of encouraging children to read and what role visual narration can play in this learning process.

The digital book market has not varied much in terms of volume (e-books represented only 3.1% of all literature published in France in 2017), but it has progressively changed in recent years.