FOYER 5.1/6.1 “dPICTUS showcases today’s finest children’s Discover outstanding picturebooks books from all over the world. We use it to introduce a selection from our publishers’ lists from around the world and we’ve sold rights thanks to the platform.” Emilie Boujon dPICTUS is a curated platform where international HANNELE & ASSOCIATES | FRANCE picturebook publishers and agents promote their titles globally throughout the year – generating foreign rights deals, business opportunities and new publishing industry “A beautiful and comfortable meeting point connections to meet at book fairs. where we can share our brand new projects with interesting publishers.” Our members can look at exciting new releases and backlist Isabel Minhós Martins titles in full from award-winning publishers, including PLANETA TANGERINA | PORTUGAL winners of the BolognaRagazzis and the Bologna BOP ‘Best Children’s Publishers’ Prize. From 2018, we’re working with picturebook specialists from different countries – curating “On dPICTUS, I feel like I really belong to a titles on dPICTUS and selecting picturebooks to be exhibited community of like-minded publishers with at international book fairs. a mutual understanding of what makes a beautiful, modern picturebook. It’s a wonderful tool for business.” dPICTUS is an excellent place for exposure and discovery. It gives all showcased picturebooks – whether from high-profile Alīse Nigale or unfamiliar sources – the year-round opportunity to be seen LIELS UN MAZS | LATVIA by publishing professionals around the world. Learn more at dpictus.com by Kitty Crowther Illustration The ‘100 outstanding picturebooks’ exhibition We invited a team of picturebook experts to help us curate 100 international picturebooks for the dPICTUS exhibition at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2018. The curators used their own criteria to independently select their favourite titles on dPICTUS. On the following pages, you can read about the curators and see the 100 picturebooks they selected for the dPICTUS exhibition. You’ll also find the foreign rights contacts listed for all titles. Introducing the dPICTUS curators The curation process Each of the picturebooks featured in the dPICTUS ‘100 outstanding picturebooks’ exhibition at the Frankfurt Book Fair were independently selected by two or more LEOnaRD S. MARCUS SOPHIE VAN DER LINDEN SAM MCCULLEN curators – some by all five. UNITED STATES FRANCE UNITED KINGDOM dPICTUS members can login Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world’s Sophie Van der Linden is a specialist in Sam McCullen is the co-founder to view the complete selection leading writers and speakers about children’s literature, focussing mainly and managing director of dPICTUS online and see which curators children’s books and the people who on picturebooks. She’s chief editor and he runs the Picturebook Makers chose which titles. Moving create them. He’s written over 25 of Hors-Cadre[s], an observatory of online resource where the world’s forward, more curators will award-winning books, is a founding illustrated literature, and has written a finest picturebook artists talk about join the team, so the curated trustee of the Eric Carle Museum of number of reference works on children’s the creation of their books. Sam is selection on dPICTUS will Picture Book Art, writes for the New books. Sophie teaches Visual Culture at also an illustrator, writer, editor and continue to grow. York Times Book Review, and teaches Condé in Paris and Children’s Literature designer, and has worked on a variety of at New York University and the School at several universities. She also runs a international publishing projects. of Visual Arts. leonardmarcus.com children’s literature blog. svdl.fr dpictus.com • picturebookmakers.com Illustration by Kitty Crowther Photo by Sonya Sones ULLA RHEDIN MARTIN SalisbuRY SWEDEN UNITED KINGDOM Ulla Rhedin is a literary scholar, critic, Martin Salisbury is Professor of researcher, author and lecturer. She Illustration and founder of the MA has a PhD on a thesis in picturebook Children’s Book Illustration at the theory and has written several books Cambridge School of Art. He’s written on the subject. Ulla was on the jury numerous books on the practice and of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair theory of children’s book illustration, Illustrators Exhibition, and for twelve speaks on the subject around the world years she was an illustration expert and has been on many award juries, on the jury of the Astrid Lindgren including chair of the jury for the Memorial Award (ALMA). BolognaRagazzi Awards. Photo by Bo Norvell Photo courtesy of Anglia Ruskin University 100 outstandinG picturebooKS View these picturebooks in full at dpictus.com ATLAS OF TRAVELS AND EXPLORERS EVERYBODY ASKS WHY STRANGE CREATURES JANE, THE FOX AND ME Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo P. Carvalho Eva Susso & Anna Höglund Cristina Sitja Rubio & Cristobal León Fanny Britt & Isabelle Arsenault Planeta Tangerina, Portugal Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden Èditions Notari, Switzerland La Pastèque, Canada Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Isabel Minhós Martins Linda Widman Valentina Colombo Frédéric Gauthier [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] TOPSY TURVY WORLD BEAR WITH ME THE BALLOON HUNTER LOUDLY, SOFTLY, IN A WHISPER ATAK Noemi Vola Anniken Bjørnes & Mari Kanstad Johnsen Romana Romanyshyn & Andriy Lesiv Jacoby & Stuart, Germany Corraini Edizioni, Italy Magikon Forlag, Norway The Old Lion Publishing House, Ukraine Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Maria Holtrop Giovanna Ballin Svein Størksen Ivan Fedechko [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 8 9 100 outstandinG picturebooKS OTTO THE BUTTERFLY WORKSHOP Etienne Exbrayat & Florie Saint-Val Gioconda Belli & Wolf Erlbruch Editions MeMo, France Peter Hammer Verlag, Germany Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Hannele Legras Anja Mundt [email protected] [email protected] THE TIME OF THE GIANT EVERYBODY COUNTS Carmen Chica & Manuel Marsol Kristin Roskifte Orfeu Negro, Portugal Magikon Forlag, Norway Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Patrícia Guerreiro Nunes Svein Størksen [email protected] [email protected] 10 100 outstandinG picturebooKS View these picturebooks in full at dpictus.com ONE HOUSE FOR ALL THE VISIT THE GOLDEN CAGE LOTS Inese Zandere & Juris Petraškevičs Antje Damm Anna Castagnioli & Carll Cneut Marc Martin Liels un mazs, Latvia Moritz Verlag, Germany De Eenhoorn, Belgium Penguin Random House, Australia Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Alīse Nīgale Anja Mundt Sarah Claeys Eleanor Shorne Holden [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] THIS IS HOW THE EARTH TURNS KISSES MAPS MOON SHERBET Martine Laffon & Mayumi Otero Goele Dewanckel Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielińscy Heena Baek Les Fourmis Rouges, France Orecchio Acerbo, Italy Dwie Siostry, Poland Bear Books, Korea Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Hannele Legras Carla Ghisalberti Jadwiga Jędryas Hyun K. Choi [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 12 13 100 outstandinG picturebooKS View these picturebooks in full at dpictus.com HIGH-TIDE ALICe’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND THE BEACH ANIMAL CITY Bernardo P. Carvalho Lewis Carroll & Andrea D’Aquino Sol Undurraga Joan Negrescolor Planeta Tangerina, Portugal Quarto, United States L’Agrume, France Orfeu Negro, Portugal Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Isabel Minhós Martins Constance Parpoil Stéphanie Vernet Patrícia Guerreiro Nunes [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] THE FIVE MISFITS 12 HOURS WITH OSCAR EVERYONE WALKS AWAY THE DOG WHICH Nino didn’t HAVE Beatrice Alemagna Eva Maceková Eva Lindström Edward van de Vendel & Anton Van Hertbruggen Topipittori, Italy Baobab, Czech Republic Alfabeta Bokförlag, Sweden De Eenhoorn, Belgium Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Lisa Topi Tereza Horváthová AnnaKaisa Danielsson Sarah Claeys [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 14 15 View these picturebooks in full at dpictus.com DREAM BJÖRN AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD Susa Monteiro Delphine Perret Pato Lógico, Portugal Les Fourmis Rouges, France Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Rita Moura Hannele Legras [email protected] [email protected] THE LOST SOUL THE SUDDEN CATS Olga Tokarczuk & Joanna Concejo Helge Torvund & Mari Kanstad Johnsen Editions Format, Poland Magikon Forlag, Norway Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Dorota Hartwich Svein Størksen [email protected] [email protected] 17 100 outstandinG picturebooKS View these picturebooks in full at dpictus.com MARWan’S JOURNEY TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-NINE DAYS THE LION AND THE BIRD WHEN I WAS BORN Patricia de Arias & Laura Borràs Roald Kaldestad & Bjørn Rune Lie Marianne Dubuc Isabel Minhós Martins & Madalena Matoso Editorial Amanuta, Chile Magikon Forlag, Norway Éditions Album, Canada Planeta Tangerina, Portugal