KIDS' ART PAGES
100 EDITORIAL GEMS FROM AROUND THE WORLD SELECTED BY BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR FOR ARTE FIERA 2026
"An illustrated book is the first art gallery that a child visits": this is what Květa Pacovská, one of the 20th century’s greatest illustrators and, wrote from Prague.
Before her, Victor d’Amico, a pioneer and founder of the Department of Education at MoMA during the Cold War, had already pointed the way: “Art may represent a means of salvation for modern man, but only if children – all children – are given the opportunity to live authentic aesthetic experiences...”
For many years, publishers around the world have embraced this invitation, giving rise to an extraordinary production of illustrated books for young readers dedicated to art, artists, and museums, with the awareness that children are the audience of tomorrow, an audience to inform and educate, not merely to entertain.
This exhibition presents one hundred titles dedicated to Art, favoring those published in Italy while also showcasing excellent examples from other countries to offer visitors to Arte Fiera a journey without linguistic barriers, open to perspectives beyond our own horizons.
The initiative is part of Off Fair, a program designed and curated by Accademia Drosselmeier to ensure widespread national and international dissemination of the contents and experiences of the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the world’s most important professional event in the field of children's books.
After Arte Fiera, Kids' Art Pages will head south to reach Gibellina, the Italian Capital of Contemporary Art 2026.
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