Italian kids enjoy books by Chinese kids at fair

BOLOGNA - In the colorful children's books section of Bologna's Salaborsa central library on Wednesday, a group of Italian students entered timidly, while some adults smiled encouragingly. On the shelves and little desks around the space, many books waited for the children.

This was not a usual day of school, nor the usual offer of books picked up from the library's catalogue: all the fairy tales belonged to same-aged kids from China.

That was the idea behind the exhibition, Colorful World in Children's Eyes, which was held during the annual book fair devoted to the childhood literature industry.