The 2018 Bologna Children’s Book Fair took place from 26th-29th March. This was my fifth visit to  Bologna, but it’s been six years since I was last at the Fair, book deadlines have kept me away since I stepped down from volunteering with the biennial SCBWI Stand, so this was a very overdue return to the Halls! Preparation & Planning Partly I was there to report on the Fair for Words and Pictures, the journal of SCBWI British Isles (my essay on the Fair is here), but for my p