JANUARY
2 – Science Fiction Day
3 – J.R.R Tolkien’s birthday
4 – World Braille Day
16 – Dragon Appreciation Day
18 – Winnie the Pooh Day / A.A. Milne’s birthday
19 – Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday
25 – Robert Burn’s birthday
27 – Lewis Carroll’s birthday
FEBRUARY
Library Lovers’ Month
1 – Meg Cabot’s birthday
1 – Jerry Spinelli’s birthday
7 – Charles Dicken’s birthday
7 – Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday
11 – Jane Yolen’s birthday
12 – Judy Blume’s birthday
12 – Jacqueline Woodson’s birthday
14 – International Book Giving Day
14 – Library Lover’s Day
19 – Amy Tan’s birthday
21 – International Mother Language Day
26 – Tell a Fairy Tale Day
27 – John Steinbeck’s birthday
MARCH
1-7 – Universal Human Being Week
2 – Dr. Seuss’s birthday
5 – World Book Day
19 – International Read To Me Day
20 – Lois Lowry’s birthday
20 – World Storytelling Day
21 – World Poetry Day
26 – Robert Frost’s birthday
APRIL
Poetry Month
2 – Hans Christian Anderson’s birthday
2 – International Children’s Book Day
4 – Maya Angelou’s birthday
12 – Beverly Cleary’s birthday
23 – World Book Night
23 – Shakespeare’s birthday
28 – Harper Lee’s birthday
MAY
1 – Mother Goose Day
2 – Harry Potter Day
4 – May the Fourth Be With You / Star Wars Day
9 – Peter Pan Day / J.M. Barrie’s birthday
14 – Eoin Colfer’s birthday
17 – Gary Paulsen’s birthday
22 – Sherlock Holmes Day
26 – Dracula Day
28 – Ian Fleming’s birthday
JUNE
2 – Jack Gantos’ birthday
10 – Maurice Sendak’s birthday
12 – Anne Frank’s birthday
16 – Bloomsday (celebrating James Joyce)
18 – Chris Van Allsburg’s birthday
22 – Octavia Butler’s birthday
29 – Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s birthday
JULY
9 – Nancy Farmer’s birthday
11 – E.B. White’s birthday
11 – Patricia Polacco’s birthday
13 – Embrace Your Geekness Day
20 – International Chess Day
21 – Ernest Hemingway’s birthday
28 – Beatrix Potter’s birthday
29 – Sharon Creech’s birthday
30 – International Friendship Day
31 – J.K. Rowling’s birthday
31 – Harry Potter’s birthday
AUGUST
6 – Betsy Byars’ birthday
11 – Joanna Cole’s birthday
12 – Walter Dean Myers’ birthday
16 – Diana Wynne Jones birthday
30 – Frankenstein Day
31 – Kennth Oppel’s birthday
SEPTEMBER
5 – Tomie de Paola’s birthday
8 – International Literacy Day
8 – Jon Scieszka’s birthday
13 – Roald Dahl Day / Roald Dahl’s birthday
15 – International Dot Day
17 – Gail Carson Levine’s birthday
18 – Read an Ebook Day
19 – Hermione Granger’s birthday
19 – Talk Like a Pirate Day
19-25 Banned Books Week
22 – Hobbit Day
24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthday
OCTOBER
5 – Clive Barker’s birthday
6 – Mad Hatter Day
8 – R.L. Stine’s birthday
11 – Myth and Legend Day
15 – World Students’ Day
18 – Shel Silverstein’s birthday
19 – Philip Pullman’s birthday
21 – Ursula K. LeGuin’s birthday
23 – Laurie Halse Anderson’s birthday
27 – Sylvia Plath’s birthday
31 – Katherine Paterson’s birthday
31 – Halloween
NOVEMBER
1 – Author’s Day
2 – Book Lover’s Day
11 – Origami Day
13 – World Kindness Day
13 – Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthday
14 – Astrid Lindgren’s birthday
16 – Robin McKinley’s birthday
17 – Christopher Paolini’s birthday
29 – Louisa May Alcott’s birthday
29 – Madeleine L’Engle’s birthday
29 – C.S. Lewis’s birthday
30 – Mark Twain’s birthday
DECEMBER
10 – Dewey Decimal System Day
13 – Tamora Pierce’s birthday
16 – Jane Austen’s birthday
23 – Avi’s birthday
30 – Rudyard Kipling’s birthday
