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December 1–15, 2025: World Children’s Book Industry Briefing

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🇫🇷 Decem­ber 1

Montreuil Children’s Book Fair Closes: Graphic Novels Take Center Stage

France’s largest and most influ­en­tial chil­dren’s book trade fair—The 41st Mon­treuil Chil­dren’s and Youth Media Book Fair(Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse, SLPJ) in Decem­ber 1 The event has offi­cial­ly con­clud­ed.

The most antic­i­pat­ed result of this year’s book fair was the high­est award. ““Pépite d’Or (Gold Nuggets)”” Award­ed graph­ic nov­el works Béril en bataille(Author: Adèle Mau­ry). This choice has been wide­ly inter­pret­ed in the French pub­lish­ing world as a clear sig­nal:

Graph­ic nov­els are no longer just a “genre sub­genre,” but one of the core forms of lit­er­a­ture for young adults.

For infor­ma­tion from the book fair orga­niz­ers and book indus­try orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing the award win­ners, please refer to:

🇺🇸 December 2

Dolly Parton’s New Picture Book Released: A Stable Path for Celebrity Children’s Books

On Decem­ber 2nd, Amer­i­can singer and phil­an­thropist Dol­ly Par­ton She launched her lat­est chil­dren’s pic­ture book “Bil­ly the Kid Dances His Heart Out”,Depend on Pen­guin Work­shop (Pen­guin Ran­dom House Kids Line) Glob­al release.

This was cre­at­ed based on her beloved dog. Bil­ly the Kid The third book in the series, focus­ing on the themeSelf-expres­sion, over­com­ing shy­ness and stage frightThe new book is being released simul­ta­ne­ous­ly with an audio­book ver­sion fea­tur­ing orig­i­nal songs and the author’s own read­ings, con­tin­u­ing her con­sis­tent approach of “music × read­ing × fam­i­ly time” in the chil­dren’s book field in recent years.

For offi­cial pub­lish­ing infor­ma­tion and indus­try reports, please refer to:

🇲🇽 December 1–7

Guadalajara International Book Fair: FIL Niños’s “The Amazing Ones” Curational Approach

As the largest book fair in the Span­ish-speak­ing worldThe 39th Guadala­jara Inter­na­tion­al Book Fair(FIL Guadala­jara) con­tin­ued through­out ear­ly Decem­ber, includ­ing a chil­dren’s sec­tion. FIL Niños This has attract­ed par­tic­u­lar atten­tion.

The cura­to­r­i­al theme of FIL Niños 2025 is ““Asom­bris­tas””The activ­i­ty empha­sizes rekin­dling chil­dren’s won­der and per­cep­tion of the world through pic­ture books, comics, dra­ma, and sen­so­ry expe­ri­ences.Expe­ri­en­tial work­shopsThe focus is on the author lec­tures rather than tra­di­tion­al author lec­tures, and the select­ed texts are high­ly inter­na­tion­al, cov­er­ing cre­ators from France, Japan, Argenti­na and oth­er coun­tries.

This sec­tion is con­sid­ered a key com­po­nent of chil­dren’s read­ing pro­mo­tion in Latin Amer­i­ca.“A mature mod­el of “from read­ing to expe­ri­ence”.

For offi­cial infor­ma­tion, please refer to:

🇪🇸 December 11

The Madrid Children’s and Youth Book Salon Opens: “Conscious Books”“

The 49th Madrid Chil­dren’s and Youth Book Salon (Salón del Libro Infan­til y Juve­nil de Madrid) in Decem­ber 11 The exhi­bi­tion will open and run until Jan­u­ary 2026.

The theme of this year’s event is ““Libros con­cien­cia (The Con­scious Book)””The exhi­bi­tion focus­es on the role of chil­dren’s books in social respon­si­bil­i­ty, eth­i­cal aware­ness, and emo­tion­al edu­ca­tion. Pro­mot­ed by the Span­ish Com­mit­tee for Chil­dren and Youth Books (OEPLI sys­tem), it is one of the most impor­tant pub­lic read­ing pro­mo­tion plat­forms in the Span­ish-speak­ing world.

Offi­cial infor­ma­tion source:

🇰🇷 December 11–14

Busan International Children’s Book Fair: The Further Formation of Asia’s Copyright Hub

The 2nd Busan Inter­na­tion­al Chil­dren’s Book Fair (Busan Inter­na­tion­al Chil­dren’s Book Fair, BICBF) on Decem­ber 11–14 Held at the Busan BEXCO Exhi­bi­tion Cen­ter.

The theme of this year’s event is ““The Young Ones and the Sea””Com­bin­ing the char­ac­ter­is­tics of port cities with marine eco­log­i­cal issues, the exhi­bi­tion fea­tures a spe­cial sec­tion… Copy­right Exchange Cen­ter By part­ner­ing with inter­na­tion­al fel­low­ship pro­grams, South Korea has clar­i­fied its pro­fes­sion­al B2B posi­tion­ing and con­tin­ues to strength­en its piv­otal role in the dis­tri­b­u­tion of chil­dren’s book copy­rights in Asia.

Rel­e­vant author­i­ta­tive reports:

🇬🇧 December 10

The death of author Sophie Kinsella: A footnote to an era of writing across generations.

British best­selling author Sophie Kin­sel­la (real name Madeleine Sophie Wick­ham)At Decem­ber 10, 2025 He died in the UK from a brain tumor at the age of 55.

She is a glob­al best-sell­ing series Shopa­holic The author, whose works have sold over 50 mil­lion copies world­wide and have been trans­lat­ed into more than 40 lan­guages, has writ­ten not only nov­els for adults but also works for chil­dren and teenagers. Her humor­ous and rhyth­mic writ­ing style res­onates with a wide audi­ence.Cross-age read­ing mar­ketIt had a pro­found impact.

Offi­cial obit­u­ar­ies and com­mem­o­ra­tive memo­ri­als:

Pen­guin Pub­lish­ing Group Com­mem­o­ra­tive Page: https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/madeleine-wickham-sophie-kinsella-1969–2025

The Guardian Obit­u­ary: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/11/sophie-kinsella-madeleine-wickham-obituary

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