The Book Fair for Children and Youth Grows in La Plata

As it happens to children, from one year to the next, the Book fair for children and young people


The Plata
grew up. In addition to having more square meters for exhibitors, at the cultural center Pasaje Dardo Rocha (an old train station), a square was designed with a stage for puppet theater performances, circus performances and shows d & # 39; acrobatics. As in 2017, a science workshop calls the curious mind of children to the labyrinthine enigmas of biology, chemistry and physics. The number of exhibitors has increased: in 2017, there were 39 and, this year, 53 publishers and bookstores have brought children, young people, teachers and mediators to read new and clbadic titles. One of the platenses bookshops that participates, La Normal, is the first founded in the country: in October 2018 she will be 127 years old. The youngest bookshop in La Plata has also been added: Caracola Bahía will celebrate one year in September and bring to the Fair Ojoreja's printed jewelery and Noveduc's books, one of the editors with texts for teachers of all levels with the greatest prestige of the Editorial Market

Last year, the Book Fair for children and young people in La Plata occupied 301 square meters and this year 455. It has increased by more than 50%. In July 2017, there were six exhibitors from La Plata and now there are ten. The bookstore Rayuela, which has selected books for babies and novels for young lovers of sagas, is participating for the second time in the meeting. "The book will always be the icon of human formation and this event, in addition to strengthening this concept, will help develop the habit of reading and dialogue between the author and the reader, a very rewarding opportunity ".
THE NACION the Secretary of Culture and Education of the Municipality of La Plata, Gustavo Silva. Today, at 10 am, with Martín Gremmelspacher, president of the El Libro Foundation, and the Mayor of La Plata,
the lawyer Julio Garro, will officially open the fair. Until Saturday, the time will be from 9h to 19h, and will be visited by groups of students and teachers from schools in the region. From Saturday to Sunday 29, you can attend from 12h to 20h.

The biggest stand of the Fair is that of Colihue, which offers several promotions. This publishing house holds more than ten collections for children and young people, like El Pajarito Remendado (4 books for $ 210) and La Pulguita Curiosa (4 for $ 210). Renting a 16 square meter stand for the three weeks that the fair lasts in La Plata costs 27,000 pesos. The second largest stand is that of the House of Books of Argentina, which collects books of 23 stamps. Gerbera, Siglo XXI, Abran Cancha, Bonum, Catapult and Pictus, among others, traveled to La Plata with their children's catalogs or, as in the case of Homo Sapiens and Editorial Place, for teachers and librarians. Until the foggy holidays of July 9, the most popular were the books of
Eduardo Galeano, Poly Bernatene, the illustrated national rock songs published by La Marca and versions for children music lovers of operas and ballets of the Unaluna label.

Good start in the middle of the crisis

"Like the weather, it's cold but it's going to heat up as the days go by," says Cejas's director, Lomas de Zamora's editorial, when he is consulted for the sales course. During the long weekend, the Fair was the option chosen by families with children to leave the house. With free and free admission, entertainment and an editorial offer accessible even in lean times, La Plata Fair promises to surpbad last year 's visitor record. At first sight, one can distinguish a success: the catalogs of exhibitors, instead of being repeated as in other salons, complement each other. The lighting of the central nave of Dardo Rocha has also been improved. However, as there is no heating, it is advisable to go with a hat, a scarf and gloves, which the first readers should remove when reading their favorite books. In a walk of no more than an hour, visitors can find novels of youth, books signed by
youtubers illustrated versions of clbadics as
Dracula or
Frankenstein news about animals, monsters and mythological beings, science books for young people and children, historical stories, national and foreign comics and albums about children's favorite creatures:
the dinosaurs

The municipality of La Plata reactivated the label La Comuna a year ago and presents this year his books signed, among others, by
the writer Gabriel Báñez, who was director of La Comuna until his death, in 2009 (and now replaces his son Facundo). The novelty of La Comuna is
The thing is complicated a set of columns written by Genoveva Arcaute and Jorge Goyeneche, journalists from La Plata who worked on the magazine
Humor . Share the booth with UMC, the cartoon label for national superheroes such as Xero, Darkcat and Sol de Plata. UMC has a team of writers and draftsmen who work for the Marvel and DC companies and the comics that they publish compete in quality with those of these international groups. The Sudestada publishing house has also traveled from Lomas de Zamora with its illustrated biographies of characters such as Frida Kahlo, Lionel Messi, Julio Cortázar, Manuel Belgrano and Mercedes Sosa. A book costs $ 120 but you can pick three for $ 400. In Quipu, new items are around $ 250 and you can get books for $ 100. Crumb, the bookstore La Plata specializing in comics, has small editions at $ 65 and perhaps the most expensive (and scariest) book of the Fair:
The marshy thing of Alan Moore, costs $ 2,000. In Red Fox Books, the average price is higher because it is imported books.
Mexico. The name of the ship by María Ferrada, tells the story of the children who emigrated from Spain from the Civil War to the hospitable country of Juan Rulfo and
Combi of the Korean writer So Yun-Kyoung, is a dystopia that presents hybrid pairs of humans and new species in a post-war era. The position of the Argentine Writers Society offers the extensive work of a writer Berisso: Pancho Aquino has published more than fifty books for children.

The cultural program of the Fair, with scientific workshops led by Floriciencia, and drawing, narrations and shows (among them,
clowns and jugglers in the central square), the specially designed proposal for the winter holidays of the Cultural Center Pasaje Dardo Rocha is added to the auditorium and the Incaa movie theater, located first floor. In 2017, a section of the cultural center was under renovation but this year, once the work was completed, the fair won in a variety of proposals.

"The Edition of last year had a great result, expected in a city like La Plata and its area of ​​influence, although surprised the flow of people – he said
Oche Califa, institutional and cultural director of the El Libro Foundation. We are very interested in the participation of the bookseller platense, who is the one who is throughout the year and, above all, when the decline in sales continues. The Fair must collaborate to create or strengthen a lasting connection with the book, beyond the days it takes place. Ideally, after the Fair, the needle will not return to where it was. "