Explora Books will be featuring three children’s titles by Melodin Trammel at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), June 17–21, at the China National Convention Center (CNCC) in Beijing. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 –Set across coastal, marshland, and harbor environments, the series portrays young characters as they come to understand change, relationships, and their evolving sense of self through experiences in the natural world.  In the Mangroves serves as the emotional center of the collection, following Bobby, a young manatee adjusting to the arrival of a new sibling. When he begins to feel overlooked amid attention directed toward baby sister Anna, he withdraws into open waters, where isolation and an unexpected act of bravery reshape his understanding...

Explora Books will present Davida Coleman’s What Does Your Heaven Look Like? at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), held from June 17–21 at the China National Convention Center (CNCC) in Beijing. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 – Equal parts picture book and spiritual invitation, What Does Your Heaven Look Like? poses one of humanity’s oldest and most joyful questions—and opens the door wide to wonder. Through a series of gentle, playful prompts, author Davida Coleman invites readers of all ages to picture their own version of paradise: Does heaven come with a first-class ticket to ride the waves in the sky, with God as co-pilot? Is it a place where all are welcome, with room for everyone in need of an address? Are there oceans to swim in, angels who lullaby ...

Explora Books will feature Wandering Lonely as a Cloud: A Lifetime Journey Across Oceans, Eras, and Cultures, a memoir by Dr. Charles Qianzhi Wu, at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), held from June 17–21 at the China National Convention Center (CNCC) in Beijing. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 – Born in 1935 in Shanghai, Dr. Wu was raised among classical Chinese learning, calligraphy, and Tang poetry. He later built a distinguished academic and cultural career in the United States, including a long association with the Portland Classical Chinese Garden as a cultural advisor and board member. The memoir’s title, inspired by Wordsworth’s poem, reflects a life spent between cultures, carrying memory, identity, and meaning. Dr. Wu’s early life was shaped by a ...

Explora Books is set to exhibit Mary Lou Darst’s War Ready: In My Father’s Shadow at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair, scheduled for June 17–21 at the CNCC in Beijing. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part reckoning with a complicated father-daughter bond, the book chronicles Mary Lou’s childhood as a U.S. Army dependent, tracing a family’s life across Alaska, Japan, and Germany in the years following World War II. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 – Mary Lou was born in Houston, Texas, in 1943, just as her father was preparing to head overseas with the Army. She did not meet him until she was two years old, and the distance between them—literal and emotional—would define much of her childhood. Carl Kennedy Hughes was a World War II veteran, an Army Corps of Engine...

Explora Books will feature Janis Latimore’s Oh Nigel, Is That You? at its exhibition booth 5A.B14 at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair, scheduled for June 17–21 at the China National Convention Center (CNCC) in Beijing. Illustrated by Kahmeika Harriatt, the book is an age-by-age poetry collection that traces a boy’s childhood through the tender, funny, and bittersweet moments that shape who he becomes. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 – Told entirely in verse, the collection follows Nigel from infancy through age twelve, with each short poem capturing a distinct season of his life—biting and climbing as a baby, running the stairs at one, losing a beloved grandmother at nine, and missing friends during the COVID-19 pandemic at ten. The recurring refrain “Oh, Nigel, i...

Explora Books will host a virtual book signing event with novelist Claudette McLennon at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair, held from June 17–21 at the China National Convention Center (CNCC) in Beijing. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the author and explore her debut novel, Sins of the Parents, at the Explora Books exhibition booth 5A.B14. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 – Sins of the Parents is a work of literary fiction that follows Marlene Henderson Tulloch as she reflects on her life during her final weeks in a New York hospice. Born in Jamaica and orphaned at a young age, Marlene grew up under the care of a grandmother who blamed her for her mother’s death in childbirth. The novel traces her experiences through childhood hardship, migration, famil...

Explora Books will showcase Mice and the Ice Capade by Carley Smith at the 2026 Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), held June 17–21 at the China National Convention Center (CNCC) in Beijing. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2nd Jun 2026 – Written predominantly in an AABBA rhyme scheme, the children’s poetry book follows a community of mice who transform winter field scraps into a neighborhood celebration after months of storing rice for the cold season. Determined to reward their hard work, the mice organize a “Rice Capade”—a parade and ice-skating festival built entirely from repurposed materials gathered from their surroundings. Rags become gowns and suits, rubber scraps are fashioned into skates and boots, cardboard is repurposed into sleds for the youngest mice, and cattail st...

The brand holds about 60 percent of the country’s pod system market and around 80 percent of its German shipments are in reusable formats, with four products honoured this year by the German Design Award and the CMF Design Awards United States, 1st Jun 2026, –   Global vape brand ELFBAR today set out how its German business has shifted toward reusable pod systems over the past several product cycles, following recognition of four of its products by the German Design Award and the International CMF Design Awards in 2026.  The two juries honoured the ELFX Mini, the ELFX 2, the ELFA Master Stein and the ELFA pod system. The group together accounts for a meaningful share of ELFBAR’s German sales. The German Design Award is organised by the German Design Council. The International CMF Design ...

The brand holds about 60 percent of the country’s pod system market and around 80 percent of its German shipments are in reusable formats, with four products honoured this year by the German Design Award and the CMF Design Awards United States, 1st Jun 2026, –   Global vape brand ELFBAR today set out how its German business has shifted toward reusable pod systems over the past several product cycles, following recognition of four of its products by the German Design Award and the International CMF Design Awards in 2026.  The two juries honoured the ELFX Mini, the ELFX 2, the ELFA Master Stein and the ELFA pod system. The group together accounts for a meaningful share of ELFBAR’s German sales. The German Design Award is organised by the German Design Council. The International CMF Design ...

Reusable device debuts with the new ELFX POD 2.0 generation, featuring a child lock, an upgraded airway and a 5A leakproof system United States, 1st Jun 2026, –   Global vape brand ELFBAR will launch the ELFX 2, a reusable pod system already honoured by the International CMF Design Awards, in Germany in June 2026. The device will be the first in the company’s lineup to ship with the new ELFX POD 2.0 cartridge generation, which adds three upgrades focused on safety, flavour delivery and leakage protection. ELFX 2 will go on sale through ELFBAR’s authorised retail and online channels. Specific on-sale dates, pricing and full channel availability will be confirmed closer to launch. The product is intended for adult smokers and ex-smokers as an alternative to combustible tobacco. What is new ...