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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
October
National Book 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!
National Hispanic Month ends.
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)