The Thessaloniki International Book Fair’s program for children and teenagers, featuring activities and events taking place throughout the exhibition grounds and beyond, sets the tone: The fair is taken over by children of all ages, and its central theme of reading becomes a reality—not just a slogan!

Meetings with renowned authors and illustrators from Greece and abroad. Adventures, treasure hunts, and mystery games, book parties, crafts, creative and hands-on workshops, as well as theatrical and music-movement activities. Children’s rights, the environment, history as we’ve never seen it before, beloved domestic and wild animals, modern and ancient sports, exploring distant places and languages, elements of nature, walks through cities around the world—and culinary journeys through the world’s cuisines!

Encounters with pirates, storm chasers, scarecrows, and benevolent giants, crocodiles and dinosaurs, pixel witches, as well as getting to know our friends, family, and ourselves better in an interactive, thoughtfully designed program that breaks down stereotypes, is based on acceptance and inclusion, and encourages the expression of emotions and creativity.

There will be 104 events for children and teenagers organized by 40 publishing houses and 17 educational and cultural organizations. Forty of these events are aimed at organized groups of students. On Thursday, May 7, and Friday, May 8, with the valuable cooperation of the Central Macedonia Regional Education Authority and the Primary and Secondary Education Directorates of Thessaloniki, the Exhibition will welcome more than 65 organized groups from kindergartens, elementary schools, middle schools, and special schools in the prefectures of Thessaloniki and surrounding areas, with approximately 2,500 students participating in coordinated events. At the same time, additional groups of students will visit the Exhibition for a tour, independent of the events.