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“dPICTUS showcases today’s finest children’s Discover outstanding picturebooks
books from all over the world. We use it to
introduce a selection from our publishers’ lists from around the world
and we’ve sold rights thanks to the platform.”
Emilie Boujon dPICTUS is a curated platform where international
Ha n n ele & Asso c i at e s | F r a nce picturebook publishers and agents promote their titles
globally throughout the year – generating foreign rights
deals, business opportunities and new publishing industry
“A beautiful and comfortable meeting point connections to meet at book fairs.
where we can share our brand new projects
with interesting publishers.”
Our members can look at exciting new releases and backlist
Isabel Minhós Martins titles in full from award-winning publishers, including
Pla n eta Ta ngerina | Port uga l
winners of the BolognaRagazzis and the Bologna BOP ‘Best
Children’s Publishers’ Prize. From 2018, we’re working with
picturebook specialists from different countries – curating
“On dPICTUS, I feel like I really belong to a
titles on dPICTUS and selecting picturebooks to be exhibited
community of like-minded publishers with
at international book fairs.
a mutual understanding of what makes
a beautiful, modern picturebook. It’s a
wonderful tool for business.” dPICTUS is an excellent place for exposure and discovery. It

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gives all showcased picturebooks – whether from high-profile
Alīse Nigale
or unfamiliar sources – the year-round opportunity to be seen
Liel s un m a zs | L at v i a
by publishing professionals around the world.

Learn more at dpictus.com

 The ‘100 outstanding
picturebooks’ exhibition
We invited a team of picturebook experts to
help us curate 100 international picturebooks
for the dPICTUS exhibition at the Frankfurt
Book Fair 2018. The curators used their own
criteria to independently select their favourite
titles on dPICTUS.

On the following pages, you can read about

the curators and see the 100 picturebooks
they selected for the dPICTUS exhibition.

You’ll also find the foreign rights contacts

listed for all titles.
Introducing the dPICTUS curators
The curation process
Each of the picturebooks
featured in the dPICTUS ‘100
outstanding picturebooks’
exhibition at the Frankfurt
Book Fair were independently
selected by two or more
Leonard S. Marcus Sophie Van der Linden Sam McCullen curators – some by all five.
United Stat es France U ni t ed K i ngdom
dPICTUS members can login
Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world’s Sophie Van der Linden is a specialist in Sam McCullen is the co-founder to view the complete selection
leading writers and speakers about children’s literature, focussing mainly and managing director of dPICTUS online and see which curators
children’s books and the people who on picturebooks. She’s chief editor and he runs the Picturebook Makers chose which titles. Moving
create them. He’s written over 25 of Hors-Cadre[s], an observatory of online resource where the world’s forward, more curators will
award-winning books, is a founding illustrated literature, and has written a finest picturebook artists talk about join the team, so the curated
trustee of the Eric Carle Museum of number of reference works on children’s the creation of their books. Sam is selection on dPICTUS will
Picture Book Art, writes for the New books. Sophie teaches Visual Culture at also an illustrator, writer, editor and continue to grow.
York Times Book Review, and teaches Condé in Paris and Children’s Literature designer, and has worked on a variety of
at New York University and the School at several universities. She also runs a international publishing projects.
of Visual Arts. leonardmarcus.com children’s literature blog. svdl.fr dpictus.com • picturebookmakers.com Illustration by Kitty Crowther

Photo by Sonya Sones

Ulla Rhedin Martin Salisbury

Sw e den U n i te d K i ngd om

Ulla Rhedin is a literary scholar, critic, Martin Salisbury is Professor of

researcher, author and lecturer. She Illustration and founder of the MA
has a PhD on a thesis in picturebook Children’s Book Illustration at the
theory and has written several books Cambridge School of Art. He’s written
on the subject. Ulla was on the jury numerous books on the practice and
of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair theory of children’s book illustration,
Illustrators Exhibition, and for twelve speaks on the subject around the world
years she was an illustration expert and has been on many award juries,
on the jury of the Astrid Lindgren including chair of the jury for the
Memorial Award (ALMA). BolognaRagazzi Awards.
Photo by Bo Norvell Photo courtesy of Anglia Ruskin University
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Atlas of Travels and Explorers Everybody asks why Strange Creatures Jane, the Fox and Me
Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo P. Carvalho Eva Susso & Anna Höglund Cristina Sitja Rubio & Cristobal León Fanny Britt & Isabelle Arsenault
Planeta Tangerina, Portugal Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden Èditions Notari, Switzerland La Pastèque, Canada

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Isabel Minhós Martins Linda Widman Valentina Colombo Frédéric Gauthier
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Topsy Turvy World Bear with me The Balloon Hunter Loudly, softly, in a whisper
ATAK Noemi Vola Anniken Bjørnes & Mari Kanstad Johnsen Romana Romanyshyn & Andriy Lesiv
Jacoby & Stuart, Germany Corraini Edizioni, Italy Magikon Forlag, Norway The Old Lion Publishing House, Ukraine

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Maria Holtrop Giovanna Ballin Svein Størksen Ivan Fedechko
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Otto The Butterfly Workshop

Etienne Exbrayat & Florie Saint-Val Gioconda Belli & Wolf Erlbruch
Editions MeMo, France Peter Hammer Verlag, Germany

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Hannele Legras Anja Mundt
[email protected] [email protected]

The Time of the Giant Everybody Counts

Carmen Chica & Manuel Marsol Kristin Roskifte
Orfeu Negro, Portugal Magikon Forlag, Norway

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Patrícia Guerreiro Nunes Svein Størksen
[email protected] [email protected]

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One House for All The Visit The golden cage Lots
Inese Zandere & Juris Petraškevičs Antje Damm Anna Castagnioli & Carll Cneut Marc Martin
Liels un mazs, Latvia Moritz Verlag, Germany De Eenhoorn, Belgium Penguin Random House, Australia

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Alīse Nīgale Anja Mundt Sarah Claeys Eleanor Shorne Holden
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

This Is How The Earth Turns Kisses Maps Moon Sherbet

Martine Laffon & Mayumi Otero Goele Dewanckel Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielińscy Heena Baek
Les Fourmis Rouges, France Orecchio Acerbo, Italy Dwie Siostry, Poland Bear Books, Korea

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Hannele Legras Carla Ghisalberti Jadwiga Jędryas Hyun K. Choi
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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High-Tide Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland The Beach Animal City

Bernardo P. Carvalho Lewis Carroll & Andrea D’Aquino Sol Undurraga Joan Negrescolor
Planeta Tangerina, Portugal Quarto, United States L’Agrume, France Orfeu Negro, Portugal

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Isabel Minhós Martins Constance Parpoil Stéphanie Vernet Patrícia Guerreiro Nunes
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

The Five Misfits 12 hours with Oscar Everyone Walks Away The dog which Nino didn’t Have
Beatrice Alemagna Eva Maceková Eva Lindström Edward van de Vendel & Anton Van Hertbruggen
Topipittori, Italy Baobab, Czech Republic Alfabeta Bokförlag, Sweden De Eenhoorn, Belgium

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Lisa Topi Tereza Horváthová AnnaKaisa Danielsson Sarah Claeys
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Dream Björn And The Big Wide World

Susa Monteiro Delphine Perret
Pato Lógico, Portugal Les Fourmis Rouges, France

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Rita Moura Hannele Legras
[email protected] [email protected]

The Lost Soul The Sudden Cats

Olga Tokarczuk & Joanna Concejo Helge Torvund & Mari Kanstad Johnsen
Editions Format, Poland Magikon Forlag, Norway

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Dorota Hartwich Svein Størksen
[email protected] [email protected]

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Marwan’s Journey Two hundred and sixty-nine days The Lion and the Bird When I Was Born
Patricia de Arias & Laura Borràs Roald Kaldestad & Bjørn Rune Lie Marianne Dubuc Isabel Minhós Martins & Madalena Matoso
Editorial Amanuta, Chile Magikon Forlag, Norway Éditions Album, Canada Planeta Tangerina, Portugal

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Ana María Pavez Svein Størksen Veronique Kirchhoff Isabel Minhós Martins
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Alphadoodler Ellington The Tiger Who Would Be King What Weather

Jan Bajtlik Marlies Bardeli & Ingrid Godon James Thurber & JooHee Yoon Britta Teckentrup
Dwie Siostry, Poland Peter Hammer Verlag, Germany Orecchio Acerbo, Italy Jacoby & Stuart, Germany

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Jadwiga Jędryas Anja Mundt Carla Ghisalberti Maria Holtrop
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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The Cloud The Guest Little Story This is Prague

Rita Canas Mendes & João Fazenda Junko Nakamura Cristina Bellemo & Alicia Baladan Olga Černá & Michaela Kukovičová
Pato Lógico, Portugal Editions MeMo, France Topipittori, Italy Baobab, Czech Republic

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Rita Moura Hannele Legras Lisa Topi Tereza Horváthová
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

The Golden Glow The Big Adventure of a Little Line The Great Friend What is a child?
Benjamin Flouw Serge Bloch Ylva Karlsson & Eva Lindström Beatrice Alemagna
La Pastèque, Canada Éditions Sarbacane, France Urax förlag, Sweden Topipittori, Italy

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Carin Bacho Phi-Anh Nguyen Carin Bacho Lisa Topi
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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The Backyards Book The very tired man and the Outside The Wild Swans
Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo P. Carvalho woman who passionately Maria Ana Peixe Dias, Inês Teixeira do Hans Christian Andersen & Joanna Concejo
Planeta Tangerina, Portugal loved bonsai trees Rosário & Bernardo P. Carvalho Topipittori, Italy
Peter Verhelst & Kaatje Vermeire Planeta Tangerina, Portugal
Foreign rights contact: De Eenhoorn, Belgium Foreign rights contact:
Isabel Minhós Martins Foreign rights contact: Lisa Topi
[email protected] Foreign rights contact: Isabel Minhós Martins [email protected]
Sarah Claeys [email protected]
[email protected]

Women and Men The Stranger Why am I here? Farwest

Equipo Plantel & Luci Gutiérrez Kjell Ringi Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen & Akin Duzakin Peter Elliott & Kitty Crowther
Media Vaca, Spain Bruaá, Portugal Magikon Forlag, Norway Pastel—l’école des loisirs, Belgium

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Begoña Lobo Abascal Valentina Colombo Svein Størksen Muriel d’Oultremont
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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What Is a River? Wings and Waves Migrating Your Turn, Adrian

Monika Vaicenavičiene Pablo Albo & Pablo Auladell Mariana Chiesa Helena Öberg & Kristin Lidström
Bokförlaget Opal, Sweden Barbara Fiore Editora, Spain Orecchio Acerbo, Italy Mirando Bok, Sweden

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Anja Eriksson Barbara Fiore Carla Ghisalberti Carin Bacho
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

So this is a dictatorship Riding High Valdemar’s pacifiers What’s Inside?

Equipo Plantel & Mikel Casal Inese Zandere & Anna Vaivare Maria Jönsson Isabel Minhós Martins & Madalena Matoso
Media Vaca, Spain Liels un mazs, Latvia Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden Planeta Tangerina, Portugal

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Begoña Lobo Abascal Alīse Nīgale Linda Widman Isabel Minhós Martins
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Don’t Cross THe Line! Picnic

Isabel Minhós Martins & Bernardo P. Carvalho María Ramos
Planeta Tangerina, Portugal Fulgencio Pimentel, Spain

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Isabel Minhós Martins Joana Carro
[email protected] [email protected]

It’s In The Detail Franklin’s Flying Bookshop

Élisa Géhin Jen Campbell & Katie Harnett
Les Fourmis Rouges, France Thames & Hudson, United Kingdom

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Hannele Legras Joséphine Seblon
[email protected] [email protected]

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Roots Vivaldi An Awesome CowBoy Story An Orchard in My Belly

Marianne Ferrer Helge Torvund & Mari Kanstad Johnsen Delphine Perret Simon Boulerice & Gérard DuBois
Monsieur Ed, Canada Magikon Forlag, Norway Les Fourmis Rouges, France La courte échelle, Canada

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Alice Lienard Svein Størksen Hannele Legras Mariève Talbot
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Balthazar The Great In the Mouth of the Wolf Mother Medusa Follow the Firefly / Run, Rabbit, Run!
Kirsten Sims Fabian Negrin Kitty Crowther Bernardo P. Carvalho
Orfeu Negro, Portugal Orecchio Acerbo, Italy Pastel—l’école des loisirs, Belgium Planeta Tangerina, Portugal

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Patrícia Guerreiro Nunes Carla Ghisalberti Muriel d’Oultremont Isabel Minhós Martins
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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Mediterranean At Harald Henriksson’s house

Armin Greder Uje Brandelius & Clara Dackenberg
Orecchio Acerbo, Italy Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Carla Ghisalberti Linda Widman
[email protected] [email protected]

War Get In Line!

José Jorge Letria & André Letria Kristin Roskifte
Pato Lógico, Portugal Magikon Forlag, Norway

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

Rita Moura Svein Størksen
[email protected] [email protected]

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Jan Toorop: The song of time Look Hamlet Dog Story Slush Mountain
Kitty Crowther Barbro Lindgren & Anna Höglund Tereza Říčanová Bjørn Rune Lie
Leopold, Netherlands Karneval förlag, Sweden Baobab, Czech Republic Magikon Forlag, Norway

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Sophie Mulder Carin Bacho Tereza Horváthová Svein Størksen
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Hello Fear! Yellow yellow Machine Imaginary

Joar Tiberg & Yokoland Frank Asch & Mark Alan Stamaty Jaime Ferraz Reyva Franco & Gerald Espinoza
Magikon Forlag, Norway Orecchio Acerbo, Italy Pato Lógico, Portugal Pequeño Editor, Argentina

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Svein Størksen Carla Ghisalberti Rita Moura Raquel Franco
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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The Bird Within Me Flies How did he give up?

Wherever it Wants Catarina Sobral
Sara Lundberg Èditions Notari, Switzerland
Mirando Bok, Sweden
Foreign rights contact:
Foreign rights contact: Valentina Colombo
Carin Bacho [email protected]
[email protected]

The Peace Tower Witchfairy

Maksim Bogdanovich & Mónica Gutiérrez Serna Brigitte Minne & Carll Cneut
Thule Ediciones, Spain De Eenhoorn, Belgium

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:

José Díaz Sarah Claeys
[email protected] [email protected]

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A House for Grandpa Mister Butterfly The man who built a house The Tunnel
Grassa Toro & Isidro Ferrer Alice Meteigner Anna Höglund Hege Siri & Mari Kanstad Johnsen
Libros del Zorro Rojo, Spain Editions MeMo, France Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden Magikon Forlag, Norway

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
César Cañete Hannele Legras Linda Widman Svein Størksen
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Stories of the Night A River A Good Day Yōkai

Kitty Crowther Marc Martin Daniel Nesquens & Miren Asiain Lora Manuel Marsol & Carmen Chica
Lilla Piratförlaget, Sweden Penguin Random House, Australia Unpublished, Italy Fulgencio Pimentel, Spain

Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact: Foreign rights contact:
Linda Widman Eleanor Shorne Holden Valentina Colombo Joana Carro
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

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About the dPICTUS team “I’m very excited about dPICTUS and I’m honoured
to be a part of it. It helps us stay up to date with the
Since our first of many visits to the Bologna most interesting new picturebooks from around
Children’s Book Fair, we’ve been captivated by the the world; in fact, we’ve just published a stunning
beautiful, innovative, powerful, diverse, touching title I discovered on the platform.”
and challenging picturebooks being published Erik Titusson
around the world. With dPICTUS, we’re dedicated Lilla Piratförlaget | Sweden

to helping these outstanding picturebooks reach

new markets and captivate new readers.
“dPICTUS is a fantastic concept! My clients find it
very useful to browse titles prior to our meeting at
dPICTUS was founded in the South of England by
the book fairs and they are glad to get such a nicely
brothers Sam McCullen (illustrator, writer, editor
presented overview of what’s new. The platform is
and designer) and Jon McCullen (designer and
easy to use and it looks fabulous.”
web developer). The platform was developed with
generous feedback and guidance from a small Anja Mundt
Mundt Agency | Germany
group of international publishers and agents.

From 2018, we’re working with picturebook “We’re big fans of dPICTUS here. We simply love
specialists from different countries – curating it and we’ve presented it to other publishers, who
titles on dPICTUS and selecting picturebooks to love it too. It’s a very useful platform.”
be exhibited at book fairs.
Patrícia Guerreiro Nunes
Orfeu Negro | Portugal
Alongside dPICTUS, we run the popular online
resource Picturebook Makers, where the world’s
finest picturebook artists talk about the creation
of their books. Contributing artists include Shaun
Tan, Jon Klassen, Kitty Crowther, Blexbolex, Isol,
Beatrice Alemagna, Anna Höglund, Jimmy Liao,
Bernardo P. Carvalho and Eva Lindström.

We see our projects as an ongoing celebration of

international picturebooks and their creators.

Illustration by Kitty Crowther

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