Four Iranian illustrators have been participated to Bologna Book Fair include Farshid Shafiee an Iranian painter, illustrator and animator, Hassan Amekan, Narges Mohammadi and a book "The Bird, the Boy and the Train" written by Ahmad Reza Ahmadi and illustrated by Rashin Kheyrieh that is about a boy who lost his bird through traveling by train and he searches everywhere to find the bird.
Bologna Children Book Fair is a 4 day event being held from April 3 to April 6, 2017 at the Fair Centre in Bologna, Italy. This event showcases like chance to discover the latest market trends in the book industry, to meet the most important illustrators, authors etc. in the Book industry. The book fair was established since 1963.
The 54th edition of Bologna Children Book Fair gathers over 25,000 visitors and showcases 1200 exhibitors, with over 98 countries represented from across the world.