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Sparkling - 'The Hans Christian Andersen Award Book Series' Global Promotion Session in Bologna Held by Anhui Children's Publishing House

BOLOGNA, Italy, March 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- April, 2 marks the anniversary of birthday of Andersen, a master of fairytale from Denmark. It is also the International Children's Book Day. Prior to the advent of Andersen's Birthday and the International Children's Book day for 2018 on March, 26 and on the first day of Bologna Children's Book Fair, Italy,  Anhui Children's Publishing House under Times Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. held Sparkling - 'The Hans Christian Andersen Award Book Series' Global Promotion Session in the activity area for China.

Wally De Doncker, President of IBBY; Patricia Aldana, President of H.C.Andersen Award Jury; Zhang Mingzhou, Vice President of IBBY; Hai Fei, former Vice President of CBBY; Fang Weiping, famous children's literature theorist and critics; Liu Haiqi, famous children's literature writer and publisher; Zhang Kewen, Deputy Editor-in-chief of Time Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. and President of Anhui Children's Publishing House and so forth presented the release conference and delivered a speech. They reached consensus that it was a publishing project featuring strategic significance and academic worth that characterized entirety, representativeness, authority and diversity carrying pragmatic significance, propelled cultural exchange and mutual reference between China and foreign countries, brought international contact of children's literature closer, and manifested responsibilities and obligations that publishing of China's children's books should undertake.

'The H.C. Andersen Award Series', a fancy publishing project launched by Anhui Children's Publishing House, focuses on 'The H.C. Andersen Award', the highest reward for global children's literature', takes aim at the world's largest and most potential publishing market of China, and is heretofore the largest-scaled import and publishing conduct with works by authors and illustrators winning The H.C. Andersen Award in Chinese-speaking areas. All works that got listed can be deemed classics with elaborate screening by branches and experts in IBBY. As of the end of December 2017, the H.C. Andersen Award Book Series were released 69 titles, a total of approximately 2.3 million copies of books in the series had been circulated in Mainland China with a total worth of about 57 million RMB. The third offering of 17 titles will be launched in May 2018.

Source: China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation
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