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Calendar of Children's Books
School Year Calendar of Children's Books

By Elizabeth Kennedy, About.com

Starting School / Changing Schools

It's Library Card Sign-up Month

Birthday of Author and Poet Paul Fleischman, September 5

National Grandparents' Day, September 7

Birthday of Poet Jack Prelutsky, September 8

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

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

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

Election Day, November 4

Veterans Day, November 11

Anniversary of Astrid Lindgren’s Birth, November 14

Thanksgiving Day, November 27

December

Winter

Holidays

Children's Books About Hannukah

Children's Books About Christmas

Kwanzaa Books for Children

Winter

January

February

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