CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT PLANNING CALENDAR
ChildrensProgramming
ChildrensPrograms2008
Storytimes and programs that are in place
SummerReadingPlanning
Reading Challenge, School visits, Stories @ Parks etc.
ProgrammingMovies
IDEAS FOR PROGRAMS
No School Days Albany County School District: acsd1.org - choose calendar
Center for the Book / Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/bkevents.html
Dr. Seuss' birthday Mar. 2. Read Across America: http://www.nea.org/readacross/index.html
April 13-19: National Library Week
May: GET CAUGHT READING MONTH
Contact the Association of American Publishers at 212-255-0200, ext. 257
Children's Book Week, May 12-18
Children's Book Council http://www.cbcbooks.org/
June: Safety Fair?
Book Bash - children's activities?
July: Freedom Has a Birthday; Jubilee Days
July 2: NATIONAL LITERACY DAY
Contact Focus on Literacy, Inc.by phone at 856-629-7989, fax: 856-629-1222
http://focusonliteracy.org/literacyday.html
August: resting & planning. School begins, late August
September: LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH
Contact the Public Information Office of the American Library Association at 1-800-545-2433 www.ala.org/librarycard
September 29 - October 6, 2007
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
phone: 800-545-2433, ext. 4223
email: oif@ala.org
http://www.ala.org/bbooks
October: Homecoming, WLA in
NATIONAL BOOK MONTH. Contact the National Book Foundation at 212-685-0261
Oct. 4 - 15. Cheyenne, WY. Wyoming Book Festival
http://www.wyomingbookfestival.org/
November 1: NATIONAL FAMILY LITERACY DAY
Contact the National Center for Family Literacy at 502-584-1133
http://www.famlit.org/Resources/NFLD.cfm
NOVEMBER 13: NATIONAL YOUNG READER'S DAY
Contact the BOOK IT! Program by phone: 412-688-7435 or by fax: 412-688-9121
www.bookitprogram.com/teachers/nyrd.asp
NOVEMBER 17: TELLEBRATION. The annual storytelling celebration day (traditionally the Saturday before Thanksgiving)
Visit the Tellebration Web site at: http://www.tellabration.org/ to view events across the U.S.A.
December:
Kiwanis Annual Christmas Party (Outreach)
ChildrensSupplies
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