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Vencedor Prémio Serpa 2023
Lucie Lučanská wins the 5th Edition of Serpa Award with her project “In the tent”
Serpa Town Council together with the publisher Planeta Tangerina organizes the fifth edition of the biennial Serpa International Picture Book Award. The initiative aims to develop the literary and artistic quality of the picture book as a medium, and to encourage the creation of new projects in this area. This edition received over 675 submissions […] Arrow
Reader’s challenge [Closed] “Cheers to Henrique!”

Thank you to all the readers that participated in the challenge and answered, with drawings, to the question: “If you could lift a wave as if it was a rug, what would you find underneath it?” It wasn’t an easy task to choose just one drawing, but after looking through all of them alongside Henrique, […]

To Bologna, with a Special Mention in tow

Not long until we take off to the 63rd edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, and we’re delighted to already have a Special Mention and other accolades under our seats. March started with the amazing news that “Bow wow!”, by Joana Estrela, received a Special Mention at the BRAW Awards (Bologna Ragazzi Awards) in the “Comics – Early […]

Kotone Utsunomiya wins the 6th Edition of Serpa Award with her project “The Peach Thief”

Meeting in Serpa for the 6th edition of “SERPA – International award for picturebooks”, the jury’s unanimous decision was to award the prize to Kotone Utsunomiya (Japan), for the project entitled The Peach Thief (O ladrão de pêssegos) for visual and narrative originality. In this submission, Kotone demonstrates mastery in creating sequences of images which, supported by […]