February 2009 Events
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African-American History Month~ USA
3rd International Galle Literary Festival~ ongoing until Feb 1, Galle, Sri Lanka
SCBWI Annual Winter Meeting~ ongoing until Feb 1, New York, NY, USA
6th International Indigenous Librarians’ Forum~ongoing until Feb 4, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Bermuda Reading Association’s Literacy Week and 25th Annual Conference~ ongoing until Feb 7, Bermuda
Kolkata Book Fair~ ongoing until Feb 8, Kolkata, India
Scraps & Imagination – Elisa Kleven’s Mixed Media Picture Book Art Exhibition~ ongoing until Feb 27, San Francisco, CA, USA
20th Annual National African American Read-in~ ongoing until Feb 28, USA
Entries Accepted for the Growing Up Asian in America Contest~ ongoing until Mar 5, San Francisco, CA, USA
Taipei International Book Exhibition~ Feb 4 – 9, Taipei, Taiwan
National Launch: Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy~ Feb 5, Washington, DC, USA
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature 2009 Conference: Nation, Translation, Migration~ Feb 6 – 7, Drumcondra, Ireland
Kala Ghoda Arts Festival~ Feb 7 – 15, Bombay, India
Black History Month Family Day Celebration~ Feb 8, Washington, D.C., USA
First Nations Public Library Week~ Feb 9 – 14, Province of Ontario, Canada
Reading Crusade 2009~ Feb 9 – Mar 23, Christchurch City, New Zealand
Crossing Cultures, Changing Skins: Writing Across Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Culture~ Feb 10, New York City, NY, USA
Imagine 09: Children’s Literature Festival~ Feb 12 – 22, London, United Kingdom
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Presents Rhythms of the Heart: The Illustration of Ashley Bryan~ Feb 12 – Apr 30, Abilene, TX, USA
Kids ♥ Authors Day~ Feb 14
24th Jerusalem International Book Fair~ Feb 15 – 20, Jerusalem, Israel
Words and Beyond: Exploring Illustrated Children’s Literature in the English Language Classroom~ Feb 17 – 20, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Read Today, Lead Tomorrow Speaker Series Featuring David Bouchard “Boys: Reading for Success”~ Feb 18, Port Moody, BC, Canada
7th International Literacy Conference~ Feb 18 – 20, Guatemala City, Guatemala
International Reading Association’s 54th Annual Convention West: Beyond the Horizon~ Feb 21 – 25, Phoenix, AZ, USA
25th Annual Freedom to Read Week~ Feb 22 – 28, Canada
The Forbidden Bookshelf: Banned Children’s Books Week Writers Talks~ Feb 22 – Mar 1, Wellington, New Zealand
CABE’s 34th Annual Conference: Releasing Multilingual Dreams Today, Creating New Worlds Tomorrow~ Feb 25 – 28, Long Beach, CA, USA
Emirates Airlines International Festival of Literature~ Feb 26 – Mar 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Latvian Book Fair~ Feb 26 – Mar 1, Riga, Latvia
Seattle Rainbow Bookfest~ Feb 28, Seattle, WA, USA
The Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable Serendipity 2009: Telling Our Stories~ Feb 28, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Bath Literature Festival~ Feb 28 – Mar 8, Bath, United Kingdom
