Starting School / Changing Schools
- Children's Books About Starting School or Changing Grades/Schools
- Little School
- I Am Too Absolutely Small for School
- First Grade Stinks!
It's Library Card Sign-up Month
- Tomás and the Library Lady
- The Librarian of Basra: A True Story of Iraq
- The Boy Who Was Raised by Librarians
Birthday of Author and Poet Paul Fleischman, September 5
National Grandparents' Day, September 7
Birthday of Poet Jack Prelutsky, September 8
- The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
- Read A Rhyme, Write A Rhyme
- Good Sports: rhymes about running, jumping, throwing and more
Patriot Day: Remembering September 11, 2001
Roald Dahl Birth Anniversary, September 13
Robert McCloskey Birth Anniversary, September 15
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 - October 15
Birthday Author and Illustrator Tomie DePaola, September 15
H.A. Rey Birth Anniversary, September 16
Citizenship Day, September 17 and Constitution Week, September 17-23
- Children's Books about the Political Process / Elections / Voting
- Children's Books that Celebrate America, the Constitution and More
Release Date for Brisingr - Book Three in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini, September 20
Start of Autumn / Fall, September 22
Release Date for 10th Anniversary Edition of First Harry Potter Book, September 23
National Punctuation Day, September 24
Birthday of Author Andrea Davis Pinkney, September 25
September and October
Banned Books Week - Celebrating the Freedom to Read, September 27 - October 4
- Banned Books Week FAQs: What You Need to Know About Banned Books Week
- Censorship, Banned and Challenged Children's Books: 2008 Banned Books Week Report
- Banning and Censorship of Children's Books
- Harry Potter: The Censorship Battles
October
Birthday of Jeanette Winter, October 6
Birthday of Author and Illustrator Elisa Kleven, October 14
Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, Through October 15
Teen Read Week: Books with Bite @ your library, October 12-18
Birthday of Steven Kellogg, October 26
Anniversary of the 1886 Dedication of the Statue of Liberty, October 28
Birthday of Eric Kimmel, October 30
Halloween, October 31
Birth Anniversary of Sydney Taylor, October 31
November
National Adoption Month
National Alzheimer’s Disease Month
National American Indian Heritage Month
The Day of the Dead, November 1-2
- Children’s Books About the Day of the Dead
- Pablo Remembers: The Fiesta of the Day of the Dead
- A Gift for Abuelita: Celebrating the Day of the Dead / Un regalo para Abuelita: En celebración del Dia de los Muertos
Election Day, November 4
Veterans Day, November 11
Anniversary of Astrid Lindgren’s Birth, November 14
Thanksgiving Day, November 27
- Children's Books About Thanksgiving
- In Every Tiny Grain of Sand: A Child's Book of Prayer and Praise
December
Winter
- Children's Poetry Books About Winter
- Winter Eyes, poems and paintings by Douglas Florian
- Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts, written and illustrated by Anna Grossnickle Hines
- Winter Poems, selected by by Barbara Rogasky and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
- Children’s Picture Books About Winter and Snow
Holidays
Children's Books About Hannukah
Children's Books About Christmas
- Guide to the Best Children's Christmas Picture Books of 2004
- Top Children's Christmas Picture Books of 2005
- 10 Favorite Christmas Picture Books
- Top Christmas Popup Books
- The Littlest Angel
- Jan Brett's Christmas Treasury
- The First Noel Popup Carousel Book
Kwanzaa Books for Children
Winter
January
February
- Groundhog Day
- Groundhog Day
- Black History Month
- African American Freedom Fighters
- Let It Shine: Black Women Freedom Fighters
