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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
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.”—Maya Angelou (1928-2014)