September 2010 Events
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010(Click on event name for more information)
2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominees Announced~ Sweden
Skipping Stones Youth Honor Award Winners Announced
Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre 2010 Exhibits~ Australia
Beijing International Book Fair~ ongoing until Sep 3, Beijing, China
Taranaki Children’s Book Festival~ ongoing until Sep 4, Taranaki, New Zealand
Western Australia Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week~ ongoing until Sep 5, Australia
Melbourne Writers Festival: Stories From Every Angle~ ongoing until Sep 5, Melbourne, Australia
Singapore International Storytelling Festival~ ongoing until Sep 8, Singapore
Childrens Books Ireland and SCBWI Ireland Present: Between The Lines, an information seminar on writing and illustrating for children ~ Sep 11, Dublin, Ireland
Dromkeen Exhibitions: Mbobo Tree, The Race for the Chinese Zodiac, and Stranded~ ongoing until Sep 17, Dromkeen, Australia
2010 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition of Children’s Books~ ongoing until Sep 26, Nishinomiya, Japan
An Exquisite Vision: The Art of Lisbeth Zwerger~ongoing until Sep 26, Amherst, MA, USA
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibit: Golden Kite, Golden Dreams: the SCBWI Awards~ ongoing until Oct 1, Abilene, TX, USA
International Youth Library Exhibition: The Treasury of Binette Schroeder~ ongoing until Oct 1, Munich, Germany
Words+Pictures=Book, Contemporary Malaysian Picture Book Illustration~ ongoing until Oct 3, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mirror, an Exhibition by Children’s Author and Artist Jeannie Baker~ ongoing until Oct 10, Australia
Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art Exhibit: From the Collection~ ongoing until Oct 24, Riddells Creek, Australia
International Youth Library Exhibit: Shaun Tan, Pictures and Books~ ongoing until Oct 31, Munich, Germany
Everyday Adventures Growing Up: Art from Picture Books ~ ongoing until Nov 28, Chicago, IL, USA
Hedwig Anuar Children’s Book Award 2011~ entries accepted until Dec 31, Singapore
Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Annual Conference~ Sep 1 – 3, Brisbane, Australia
Brisbane Writers Festival~ Sep 1 – 5, Brisbane, Australia
Moscow International Book Fair~ Sep 1 – 6, Moscow, Russia
Writers’ and Literary Translators’ International Congress ~ Sep 2 – 5, Istanbul, Turkey
Bendigo Children’s Literature Conference: Texts Mark the Spot – Getting Real: Debating the what, why and how of realism in children’s and YA texts~ Sep 3 – 4, Bendigo, Australia
Asian Digital Storytelling Congress: Beyond Words ~ Sep 4, Singapore
CYA Later, Alligator – Children’s and Young Adult Writers And Illustrators Conference~ Sep 4, Brisbane, Australia
KATHA’s I Love Reading! Week~ Sep 4 – 10, Delhi, India
International Literacy Day~ Sep 8
UNESCO Literary Prize Awards Presentation~ Sep 8, Paris, France
IBBY’s Biennial Congress: The Strength of Minorities~ Sep 8 – 12, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Nu Wa International Storytelling Tour of China~ Sep 10 – 26, China
The Kennedy Center’s 15th Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Festival~ Sep 11, Washington, D.C., USA
African Library Project’s 5th Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser~ Sep 11, Menlo Park, CA, USA
SCBWI Ireland Conference~ Sep 11, Dublin, Ireland
First International Conference on Language, Literature and Cultural Studies~ Sep 11 – 13, Skele, Albania
Book Blogger Appreciation Week~ Sep 13 – 17
The Manila International Book Fair: Words Without Borders~ Sep 15 – 19, Manila, Philippines
International Children’s and Youth Literature Festival~ Sep 15 – 25, Berlin, Germany
Hispanic Heritage Month~ Sep 15 – Oct 15, USA (more…)
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Lulie the Iceberg by Her Royal Highness Princess Takamado and illustrated by Warabe Aska (Kodansha America, 1998), which Sally wrote about a while ago – her
Meanwhile, Older Brother has read Linda Sue Park’s A Single Shard (Clarion Books, 2001):
Observed by Muslims all over the world, the Islamic holy month of prayer and fasting, known as Ramadan, started this year on August 11th in North America and will culminate on Eid, a three day celebration that marks the end of the period of fasting.
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On December 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a 





