Chronicle Books Named Best Children’s Publisher of the Year

By Jason Boog 

Chronicle Books has received the Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year in the North American category.

Bologna Fiere and the Italian Publishers Association (AIE)  picked the publisher. This is the first time the book fair has awarded the prize.  Here’s more about the award:

Chronicle Books, who is serendipitously celebrating their own anniversary of 25 years of children’s publishing during 2013, is proud to be the recipient of the BOP Award for the North American category. The award, given in six geographic areas, highlights the editorial projects, professional skills and intellectual qualities of work produced by publishing houses all over the world and is designed to foster reciprocal knowledge and mutual exchange of ideas among different countries, diverse areas and cultural identities across the globe.