PRH Canada's Tundra Book Group Wins the Bologna Prize for Best Children’s Publishers of the Year
Penguin Random House Canada is incredibly proud to share the news that Tundra Book Group has been named the winner of the BOP – Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year!
Co-publishers Tara Walker and Elizabeth Kribs accepted the award on stage at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in a room filled with children’s publishing professionals, authors, and agents from around the world, including Penguin Random House Canada’s Vice President, Subsidiary Rights, Adrienne Tang.
Left to right: Elizabeth Kribs, Adrienne Tang, Tara Walker
As Bologna says of the award, it is “an extraordinary occasion to highlight publishers at the forefront of innovation in their activity for the creative nature of the editorial choices they have made during the previous year.”
As Canada’s oldest English-language children’s book publisher, Tundra Book Group has continued to grow in the almost 60 years since they began innovating in children’s books, and 2025 marked an incredible year for the entire group: they successfully launched Swift Water Books; won a Governor General’s award for Young People’s Literature – Text for Heather Smith’s Tig; were named to the New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Books of the Year for X. Fang’s Broken; were honored with a 2025 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for Jashar Awan’s Towed by Toad; and surpassed 7 million copies sold of Ben Clanton’s beloved Narwhal and Jelly books.
Our colleagues on stage at Bologna Children’s Book Fair
For the North America category, Tundra Book Group was up against Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Tra Publishing, Orca Book Publishers, and Milky Way Picture Books, and join other publishers from around the world in their victory: for Africa, Saaraba Éditions from Senegal; for Asia, Bronze Publishing from Japan; from Caribbean, Central, and South America, Lecturita Ediciones from Argentina; from Europe, Éditions La Doux from France; and from Oceania, Messy Press from New Zealand.
Publishing for children has always been central to Penguin Random House Canada’s mission and remains vital to the continued growth of our company. Through our commitment to creating exceptional books for young readers, we are not only entertaining children but also engaging parents, educators, and families alike, and supporting a generation of future readers. Across its imprints, Tundra’s publishing program fosters a love of reading by inspiring imagination, supporting literacy at its earliest stages, and delivering stories that educate and delight. As we look to the future, Tundra’s leadership in children’s publishing represents both a profound responsibility and an exciting opportunity—one we are honored to advance, and proud to have recognized with this award.
About Tundra Book Group: Tundra is Canada’s oldest English children’s book publisher, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, and is renowned across North America and throughout the world for its beautifully illustrated, award-winning books. We publish primarily for young readers, in a wide range of categories: board books, picture books, chapter books, graphic novels, illustrated nonfiction and middle-grade fiction. Tundra is the home of many accomplished writers and illustrators from Canada, the United States and beyond, as well as the beloved Canadian classics The Hockey Sweater and Mordecai Richler’s Jacob Two-Two. With its literary merit and striking art and design, our carefully curated list stands out on bookshelves.