In Bologna... in spirit

Yes, top shelf, smash bang in the middle, it's me!
(And in excellent company, you'll note, n'est-ce pas Alice?)
Thanks to the CBI crowd who bumped into one of my publishers' stall in Bologna and thought of taking a photo!

Bologna Ragazzi Awards

The Bologna Bookfair is nigh and the winners of the Bologna Ragazzi Awards have been announced. If you want a breath of fresh air and a visual feast, go have a look... If you can't wait, though, here's the list of winners, hailing respectively from the Netherlands, the US, India and the US again:
Fiction: DE BOOMHUT, etching by Ronald Tolman, illustrations by Marije Tolman
Non-Fiction: THE RIVERBANK, text by Charles Darwin, illustrations by Fabian Negrin
New Horizons: DO! text by Gita Wolf, illustrations by Ramesh Hengadi & Shantaram Dhadpe
Opera Prima (First Book): THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY, Book design and illustrations by Jeremy Holmes