Relacja Publishing Group es una editorial independiente polaca fundada por Anna Zdrojewska-Żywiecka en 2010. A través de sus sellos Mamania, Relacja y Varlia, publica libros infantiles, títulos sobre crianza, literatura y obras de no ficción. La empresa publica alrededor de 80 a 100 novedades al año y cuenta con un catálogo de más de 1,200 títulos de autores polacos e internacionales.

Anna Zdrojewska-Żywiecka es editora y directora general de Relacja Publishing Group. Es licenciada en Estudios Culturales por la Universidad de Varsovia, cuenta con un MBA por la SGH Warsaw School of Economics y realizó el Advanced Publishing Program en la Universidad de Nueva York. Ha participado en becas y programas profesionales de edición en Sofía, Roma, Turín, París, Riga y Chennai, así como en ferias internacionales del libro en Bolonia, Fráncfort y Shanghái. Es integrante del Consejo de la Organización Polaca de Editores de Libros y miembro de la Universal Reading Foundation.

Éditions Père Fouettard is an independent children's publishing house founded in Strasbourg in 2014. It operates two imprints: Père Fouettard, dedicated to children's books, and Marave, focused on graphic novels and comics.

While the publisher is recognized for the quality of its illustrations and the humor of its stories, it is equally committed to socially engaged children's literature, addressing topics such as ecology, feminism, and democracy. This commitment to social and environmental responsibility is also reflected in the sustainable production of its books.

Its catalog consists of approximately 80% original works and 20% translations, featuring authors and illustrators from around the world, including Rocío Bonilla, Laurent Cardon, Jérôme Peyrat, Ana Sender, and Issa Watanabe.

Florent Grandin is the founder and publisher of Éditions Père Fouettard. He also teaches publishing at the University of Strasbourg and particularly enjoys international collaborations, regularly negotiating the sale and acquisition of publishing rights. He actively participates in major international book fairs, including the Bologna Children's Book Fair, the Kyiv Book Arsenal International Festival, the Taipei International Book Exhibition, the China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair, and Più Libri Più Liberi in Rome.

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers (EBYR) was started in the mid-1990s as an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. Since then, it has become a globally renowned imprint for children’s books, with titles consistently earning high praise and starred reviews along with numerous awards, including the Batchelder Award as well as the prestigious Caldecott Honor. We publish mainly picture books, as well as some fiction and graphic novels. Books in translation make up over half of our catalog; we at EBYR are passionate about publishing books that create conversation and open minds to a larger world.

Kathleen Merz is the Editorial Director for Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. She joined Eerdmans in 2009, and since then has had the opportunity to work with creators from around the world on a number of award-winning titles. She studied literature and linguistics, and throughout her career has especially enjoyed working on translated books and nonfiction picture books. She’s particularly fond of stories that celebrate diversity and tackle contemporary social issues in ways that are organic, compelling, and honest.

Draakon & Kuu is an independent publishing house established in 2000 in Tallinn, Estonia, which focuses on publishing quality children's books in translation for all ages: picture books, fiction, poetry, graphic novels, as well as literary fiction for adults. The list includes both classics and contemporary authors and quite many of the titles have been nominated and awarded the Tower of Babel translation award in Estonia.

Leelo Märjamaa is a founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Draakon & Kuu. Before founding her own publishing house, she worked at the publishing house W.W.Norton & Company in New York following her studies at Rutgers University in the U.S. She is also a translator of fiction and poetry for children, a nominee and a laureate of the translation awards in Estonia as well as nominee for IBBY Honor List. Leelo is a member of Estonian Translators' Union and currenlty the president of IBBY Estonia.

Maddalena Lucarelli, PhD in Contemporary Philosophy, with a thesis on Jacques Derrida focusing on the concept of "différance". After completing a Master’s program in radio broadcasting at Sapienza University/Radio Rai, she interned with the editorial team of "Fahrenheit" - a Rai Radio 3 radio program dedicated entirely to books and literature - before moving into the publishing industry, where she worked for ten years at Donzelli Editore.

Since 2019, she has been working as the Editorial Director of Fatatrac, a publishing house that won the 2025 BOP - Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year (Europe category) - an annual award presented by the Bologna Children's Book Fair to honor the world's best publishers.

For years, alongside a group of dedicated volunteers, she has managed the IBBY Lampedusa Library project - which established a self-managed library open to everyone in the heart of the Mediterranean - and the "FAMMI CAPIRE" project, a bibliographic exhibition exploring representations of bodies, sexuality, emotional and affective education in picture books for ages 0–18.

Open Books was founded in 2021 by Ádám Halmos, the former CEO of Hungary’s largest publishing group, Libri. Since then, Open Books has operated as an independent, steadily growing publisher, currently releasing 60–70 titles per year across adult non-fiction, fiction, and children’s literature. In the adult section, the publisher has achieved significant success with international bestsellers and has been an active collaborator on international projects with renowned authors, including Ernő Rubik, Judit Polgár, and Dr. Gabor Maté.

Saba has been the Acquisition Manager and Editor at Open Books since its founding, managing all communications with international agents and representing the company at the London, Frankfurt, and Bologna book fairs. She also oversees the expanding children’s and YA department. Currently, the list includes a strong selection of non-fiction children’s titles in the fields of history, science, and math, as well as middle-grade fiction titles, including Colin Meloy’s Wildwood series and various chapter books. Recently, Open Books has acquired upper middle-grade and YA titles, increasingly expanding into this segment in a dynamic way. Alongside a curated selection of foreign titles, the company is also proudly producing original children’s books and partnering with contemporary Hungarian authors to build a diverse and vibrant portfolio.