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2025 Calendar

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift."

Kate DiCamillo

May

National Inventor's Month

            Monday, 5, 2025 – Friday, May 9, 2025

                    Teacher Appreciation Week



Saturday               3         Happy Septima Poinsette Clark!


Tuesday                6             National Teacher Day


Sunday                 11             Happy Mother's Day!


Saturday               17          Happy Birthday Gary Paulsen!


Monday                19          Happy Birthday Malcolm X!

                                     Happy Birthday Lorraine Hansberry!


Sunday                25        Happy Birthday Joyce Carol Thomas!

                           

                          26                  Memorial Day


June

Pride Month

Thursday               5            World Environment Day

Saturday               7            Happy Gwendolyn Brooks!


Sunday                 8                 Best Friends Day


Tuesday                10           Happy Birthday Maurice Sendak!


Sunday                 15                    Happy Father's Day!


Thursday               19                        Juneteenth


Friday                   20                          Summer


Sunday                  22           Happy Birthday Octavia Butler!


Wednesday            25           Happy Birthday Eric Carle!


Friday                    27           Happy Birthday Lucille Clifton!


July

UV Safety Month

Monday               7            Happy Birthday Margret Walker!

                                         Happy Eric Jerome Dickey!


Wednesday          9           Happy Birthday June Jordan!


Thursday             10          Happy Birthday Mary McLeod Bethune!


Friday                 11               Happy Birthday E.B. White!


Saturday             12              Happy Birthday Henry David Thoreau!

                                            Happy Birthday Pablo Neruda!


Sunday                13            Happy Birthday Ashley Bryan!


Sunday               20                     World Moon Day

                                         Happy Birthday Frantz Fanon!


Monday               21            Happy Birthday Ernest Hemingway!


Saturday              26              National Aunt and Uncle Day


Wednesday          30               International Friendship Day


August

Romance Awareness Month

Friday               1                    Happy Birthday Warsan Shire!


Saturday           2                  Happy Birthday James Baldwin!

                                               National Coloring Book Day     


Wednesday        6                  Happy Birthday Diane di Prima!                                    


Saturday           9                       National Women's Day

                                              National BookLovers Day


Tuesday             12                   Happy Birthday Walter Dean Myers!

                                                         International Youth Day


Thursday   21     Happy Birthday C. Cherie Hardy, Owner of Avant-garde Books!

                                               Happy Birthday Sharon Draper!

                                            Happy Birthday Kwame Alexander!

                                                          Senior Citizens Day


Friday            22                  Happy Birthday Paul Bradbury!

                                          

Sunday           24                    Happy Birthday Paul Coelho!


Tuesday          26                          Women's Equality Day


Thursday         28                        Happy Birthday Rita Dove!


September

Hispanic HeritageMonth

                            1                                 Labor Day


Thursday               4                    Happy Birthday Richard Wright!


Saturday               6                      Read A Book Day


Sunday                 7                      Grandparents Day


Monday                8                   International Literacy Day                                


Wednesday           10                   Happy Birthday Georgia Douglas Johnson!


Saturday               13                   Happy Birthday Mildred Taylor!

                                                      

Monday                15                  Happy Birthday Agatha Christie!

                                             

Sunday                  21                 Happy Birthday Stephen King!


Monday                 22                               Autumn

                                                     Voter Registration Day

                                          

Thursday               25                    National Comic Book Day

October

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Wednesday             1                          International Coffee Day


Thursday               2                    Happy Birthday John Sinclair!


Sunday                 5                        World Teachers' Day


Monday                6                      Child Health Day


Wednesday           8                    Happy Birthday Frank Herbert!                    


Friday                  10                      World Mental Health Day              


Monday                13                         Indigenous People's Day

                                                   National Train Your Brain Day


Tuesday                 14                     Happy Birthday E.E. Cummings!

                                                      

Wednesday             15                  Happy Birthday Fanny Jackson Coppin!


Thursday                16                             Dictionary Day

                                             

Sunday                 19                       Evaluate Your Life Day


Thursday               23                       Happy Birthday Wade Hudson!

                                          

Monday               27                       National Mentoring Day


Friday                   31                              Halloween

                                                 Happy Birthday Terry McMillan!

November

Native American Heritage Month

Saturday             1                       National Authors' Day


Saturday             8                       National STEM/STEAM Day


Sunday                9                     Happy Birthday Benjamin Banneker!


Monday              10                    Happy Birthday J. California Cooper!


Tuesday              11                          Veteran's Day

                                                  Young Reader's Day

                                                 Happy Birthday Daisy Bates!


Wednesday          12                     Chicken Soup for the SoulDay


Thursday              27                              Thanksgiving

                                                            Indigenous Day

December

Sunday                7                       Letter Writing Day


Saturday             8                       National STEM/STEAM Day


Monday              10                       Human Rights Day


Sunday               14                       International Children's Day


Monday              15                        Hanukkah begins


Sunday               21                              Winter

                                                

Wednesday          24                      Christmas Eve

Thursday             25                      Christmas Day


Friday                  26                       Kwanzaa begins


Wednesday          31                        New Year's Eve

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