Calendar

April

National Poetry Month and World Autism Month

Wednesday 2 International Children's Book Day

Friday 4 Happy Birthday Maya Angelou!

Monday 12 Happy Birthday Beverly Cleary

Happy Birthday Tom Clancy!

Sunday 13 Happy Birthday Nella Larson!

Wednesday 16 National Librarian Day

Monday 21 Happy Birthday Charlotte Brontë!

Tuesday 22 National Earth Day

Sunday 27 National Tell A Story Day

Monday 28 Happy Birthday Harper Lee!

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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