📚Frankfurt Buchmesse 2025: Stories, connections, and inspiration everywhere!

It’s been almost two weeks since the Frankfurt Book Fair, the biggest book fair in the world, came to an end, and we can still feel the energy buzzing through our team! 

The 77th edition of the fair welcomed an incredible 238,000 visitors this year, including 118,000 professionals and 120.000 general readers, marking a 3% increase from last year. With 4,350 exhibitors from 131 countries, Frankfurt once again proved to be a vibrant hub where creativity, culture, and publishing from around the globe come together. (Source: PublishNews, Brazil) 

For us, it was an unforgettable experience! We had the opportunity to present our newest titles, reconnect with long-standing partners, and meet wonderful new publishers from every corner of the world. The conversations were inspiring and the passion for books, unmistakable.

We at Callis had the opportunity to take part thanks to the support of the Brazilian Publishers project, which promotes the export of Brazilian editorial content worldwide. We shared the Brazilian collective stand with other outstanding publishing houses and had the chance to connect with many wonderful colleagues! 

Brasilian Book Publishers

Our table at the Frankfurt book Fair. Callis Editora

Each exchange reminded us why we love what we do: stories have the power to cross borders and spark imagination everywhere they go.

Amidst the lively halls full of color, creativity, and stories in every language, we also celebrated collaboration, and the joy of storytelling, the true heart of the Frankfurt Book Fair. 

We return home full of ideas, with exciting projects on the horizon and renewed inspiration to keep bringing diverse and meaningful stories to readers everywhere. 

✨ Thank you, Frankfurt, for another amazing edition! 

We’re already counting the days to be back next year (don’t forget: see you all in April, at Bologna 2026!) with new books, new stories, and the same excitement in our hearts. 

An Interview with Clarice Uba – Founder of Lume Livros

Clarice Uba graduated in Graphic Design and completed a Publishing MA in Oxford. She

worked as a foreign Editor at Usborne Publishing in London, before returning to Brazil and starting Lume Livros in 2015. Her core motivation is to communicate science-based information in an approachable and interesting way.  To give you an insight into her work, we asked her a few questions.

What made you set up your own publishing house?

I have been around books all my life and I absolutely love them. My parents had a pretty big collection, I loved libraries as a kid and I worked first as a book designer and editor and then as a publisher. I think that opening my own publishing house gave me the chance to create the books that I would have loved as a child, and to go even further into all the steps of developing a book project from beginning to end.

In your opinion, what makes a good non-fiction book for children?

Well researched and up to date information is a must, but I think that a great book will challenge the readers to see the world a little bit differently, to embrace more than one perspective and to explore the interconnectivity and complexity of life on this planet. A good nonfiction book should provide some answers but a great one raises more questions and gives the reader tools to keep researching and questioning their points of view.

What is your favourite Lume-title?

It changes with time! Right now, I am really keen on “Stories of Shadow and Dread”. The illustrations are just gorgeous, I love the flow of the text and monsters and horror is a subject that I personally enjoy, and so do kids! Parents might feel uneasy about introducing these topics to children, but it is a natural fascination that is present all over the world and I hope that this title can help the entire family to explore and even embrace the spookiness in their life. 

See all the books in our Lume collection here.

Premio Frei Martín Sarmiento!

We are proud to announce that our author Lawrence Schimel won the Premio Frei Martín Sarmiento for "Como se di?", the Galician edition of his book “What Do You Say?”