The Bologna Children’s Book Fair (BCBF) will kick off its 59th edition from June 14th to 17th online, welcoming illustrations and children’s books from all over the world. The Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) has curated the virtual Taiwan Pavilion featuring Taiwanese artists and partnered with Taiwan’s Animation and Visual Effects Association to promote this year’s lineup with ten short animations.
“This year, we’re not only promoting Taiwan’s illustration and publishing industries to the world, but also incorporating cross-industry collaboration. We adapt illustrations into animations and showcase potentials in Taiwanese content at the BCBF market,” said TAICCA CEO LEE Ming-Che.
Taiwanese children’s books and illustrations garnered exceptional recognition at the BCBF this year. LIN Lian-En’s “HOME” and Animo Chen’s “Love Letter” receive the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi Award under the fiction and poetry category, respectively. This year’s official selection includes 77 illustrations, eight of which are Taiwanese, from a total of 3,235. *See details of selected Taiwanese works in the appendix.
The Taiwan Pavilion themed “To Live is To Create” invites well-known illustrator/designer, Croter Hung (洪添賢) to design the key visual. He depicts Taiwanese daily lifestyles that have inspired many content creators. The virtual pavilion will display 298 publications recommended by 64 publishers through the open-call co-organized by TAICCA and the Taipei Book Fair Foundation.
The Taiwan Pavilion will feature the ten animations adapted from BCBF official selection, Golden Tripod Awards and Golden Comic Awards winners, works from the Books from Taiwan Initiative (BFT), as well as illustrations and children’s books in Hakka and Taiwanese languages, along with 12 award-winning illustrators.
To further promote Taiwan’s wonderful illustrations, the Taiwan Pavilion also features the online illustration exhibition “HOME TOWN TAIWAN,” organized by the Taipei Illustration Fair, Ministry of Culture Taiwan Academy in Houston, and Auspicious Design. The exhibition showcases ten Taiwanese illustrators’ 59 works inspired by their lives in Taiwan.
In addition, since the last year’s BCBF was canceled due to the pandemic, six Taiwanese creators were unable to accept their awards in person. Thus, the Taipei Book Fair Foundation also plans a special exhibition for these works on this year’s Taiwan Pavilion.
2021 BCBF Taiwan Pavilion：http://taiwan-bcbf.taicca.tw/2021
2021 BCBF Taiwan Pavilion Catalog: https://publication.taicca.tw/book/17
2021 BCBF Short Animation of winning Taiwanese works：https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6N4H8f3-snoeijXIX1arZb5ZBrpT7mOH
* Selected Taiwanese Works of the 2021 BCBF
1.‘I PREFERRED NOT TO OPEN MY EYES’ by CHANG HSIAO-CHI / 張筱琦
Animation: Active Animation Ltd. (好動動畫有限公司)
2.‘WAKE UP! DADDY!’ by HUANG YU CHEN / 黃右禎（阿文）
Animation: Engine Studio (原金國際有限公司)
3.‘STREET ANIMALS AROUND THE WORLD’ by CHEN WEI HSUAN / 陳瑋璿
Animation: Active Animation Ltd. (好動動畫有限公司)
4.‘CROWN SHYNESS’ by CHO PEI-HSIN / 卓霈欣
Animation: BlackSheep Studio (黑綿羊映畫有限公司)
5.‘CONTOUR OF DAILY’ by CHEN YI CHIN / 陳怡今
Animation: Engine Studio (原金國際有限公司)
6.‘virtual reality’ by Tzu-Chun Chang / 張梓鈞
Animation: Mosen Content Co., Ltd. (魔森內容股份有限公司)
7.‘TRAIN’ by HUANG YIWEN / 黃一文
Animation: STUDIO ILYA ANIMATION, INTL. (小不點動畫有限公司)
8.‘THE NIGHT MARKET’ by DAI WEI-CHUN / 戴維君
Animation: Xanthus Animation Studio (冉色斯動畫股份有限公司)
9.‘THE BOY WALKING AT NIGHT’ by HSUEH HUI-YIN / 薛慧瑩
Animation: Mosen Content Co., Ltd. (魔森內容股份有限公司)
10.‘when it starts’ by Poppy Li / 李品萱
Animation: Xanthus Animation Studio (冉色斯動畫股份有限公司)