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Little Engines That Could: Children’s Publishers in Europe’s Smaller Markets

In anticipation of the Bologna International Book Fair, there’s no shortage of buzz about the fast-emerging kids’ markets in Asia, Latin America, and the Arab world, along with curiosity about how the traditional powerhouses of France, Spain, and Germany are faring. Falling somewhere in between, the smaller European territories are feeling the benefit of Asian…Continue Reading

International Fiction Bestsellers

Frenzy in Finland Book Babes on the Baltic, Italy’s Newsstand Novellas, And Germany’s Aesopian Menagerie Having budged out of their Barcaloungers, reader-citizens are barging into bookshops all across Finland, where surveys reveal that the number of Finns who regularly read and buy books is climbing — 14% of those surveyed bought more than 10 books…Continue Reading

International Fiction Bestsellers

The Travolta Generation Swingin’ Sweden’s Gardell, Finland’s Eager Readers, And Greece’s Turk in the Garden One of Scandinavia’s sassiest stand-up comedians drenches himself in “sweaty randiness and lonely searching” this month with A UFO Makes an Entry, a second novel by Jonas Gardell about the star-crossed generation that grew up in the suburban 1970s, weaned…Continue Reading