Finalist Bologna Portfolio Award for Marjorie Crosby-Fairall

Congratulations to illustrator Marjorie Crosby-Fairall for being selected as a Finalist for the Bologna Portfolio Award.

The "Bologna Portfolio Award" aims to recognize the illustrator's portfolio as a fundamental tool for professional development, emphasizing its primary role as a means to access new job opportunities and as a communication tool between the illustrator and key players in the publishing industry.

The purpose of the initiative is to highlight those characteristics of the portfolio, such as clarity of presentation and consistency of language, that make it a professional facilitator between the world of creativity and content production.

After its debut at the Guadalajara fair, the new "Bologna Portfolio Award" had its first Italian stop at the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025. On this occasion, participation in the award was exclusively dedicated to the finalist illustrators of the 2025 Illustrators Exhibition, as a recognition of their talent.

The qualification phase for the final selection of the winner took place on April 3rd as part of the "Portfolio Marathon 2025" initiative, held within "The Illustrators Survival Corner" program during the Bologna Children's Book Fair.

New PB Board Book for Jackie Hosking and Marjorie Crosby-Fairall

The much-loved Australian reimagining of Edward Lear’s nonsense poem “The Owl and the Pussycat,” now in board book published by Walker Books Australia.

The Croc and the Platypus

The croc and the platypus trundled off
in a rusty old Holden ute.
They took some damper and tea in a hamper
and bundled it up in the boot.

Congratulations to author Jackie Hosking and illustrator Marjorie Crosby-Fairall!

Finalist Bologna Children's Book Fair for Marjorie Crosby-Fairall

Congratulations to illustrator Marjorie Crosby-Fairall for being chosen as a Finalist for the Bologna Book Fair 2025 Illustrators Exhibition.

The Bologna Children's Book Fair has been working for over 60 years to discover new trends and rising talents in global illustration.

This year, 4,374 illustrators entered for the Illustrators Exhibition 2025, with a total of 21,870 submissions coming from 89 countries and regions.

To determine the winners, the international jury shortlisted 324 finalist artists.

Marjorie’s illustration submission was a sequence of illustrations from her upcoming picture book Emmie Builds Something New. The book will be her debut as both author and illustrator and will be published in 2025.