International Affairs

For those of you who happen to know about the annual Bologna Children's Book Fair, they have posted their choices for the selected illustrators of fiction. It's a pretty gorgeous selection, and so different from what I'm used to seeing from the American market! (They seem to carry so much more emotion and are much more avant garde than the mass market here seems to "allow"-though there are exceptions to that rule.)
Some of my favorites:

Aoki, Yuko (Japan)

Endom, Hitomi (Japan)Flavien, Louis (France)Gorla, Tommaso (Italy)
Hirano, Haruhi(Japan)
Hufnagel, Kim Helen (Germany)Kaser, Lisa (USA)Konstantinov, Vitali (Germany)Marston, Eleanor (Germany)Melvin, Alice (GB)Sburelin, Glenda (Italy)Takano, Momo (Japan)Verplancke, Klaas (Belgium)