Books from 50 national and foreign publishing houses are presented at Moldexpo Center in Chisinau, where the International Book Fair for Children and Youth is held during November 14-17. Entrance to the fair is free of charge and the participating publishers and book distributors announce discounts of up to 40 percent, IPN reports.

In addition to fiction and non-fiction books in Romanian and other languages, the organizers propose meetings with writers, autograph sessions, reading workshops, poetry recitals, book illustration exhibition.

Among the guests of the 26th edition of the fair are writer Ana Blandiana, poet, essayist and literary critic Ion Bogdan Lefter, writer Simona Epure, writer Petre Crăciun, head of the Children's and Youth Literature Branch of the Writers' Union of Romania.

The fair will end with an award ceremony and an artistic program on Sunday, at 12.30 p.m.