The City of Benicarlo in collaboration with Onada Edicions, in order to encourage and promote reading through picture books for children, convenes the Sixth Children’s Picture Book International Prize Ciutat de Benicarló.
Participants must submit one or more projects with the following characteristics:
• A document describing the project and, where appropriate, the specific techniques for the final edition of the work.
• A complete model of the album project, including text and illustration.
• A minimum of 3 examples of completely finished illustrations, where key scenes from the book are displayed.
• A proposal for endpapers.
• The written literary part shall not exceed 3,000 characters.
The work must not necessarily be finished and will be proportional to the format 210 mm x 210 mm closed. The length must not exceed 32 inner pages (excluding covers and endpapers). The illustrations may be double page (16 illustrations maximum). The jury will consider both the literary part and illustration quality, and the originality and appropriateness of the overall project
The work should be in Valencian, Spanish or English.
There is no entry fee.
Eligibility
Open worldwide to anyone.
Prize
The winner will receive 5000 EUR. The winning work will be published.