September 2009 Events
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Skipping Stones Youth Honor Award Winners Announced
Western Australia Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week~ ongoing until Sep 4, Australia
Taranaki Children’s Book Festival~ ongoing until Sep 5, Taranaki, New Zealand
Enchanted Worlds – Art of Fairy Stories & Mermaid Tales exhibition~ ongoing until Sep 5, Lancashire, United Kingdom
National Literacy and Numeracy Week~ ongoing until Sep 6, Australia
Singapore International Storytelling Festival~ ongoing until Sep 12, Singapore
2009 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition of Children’s Books~ ongoing until Sep 27, Nishinomiya City, Japan
Entries Accepted for the 2010 PBBY-Salanga Prize~ ongoing until Oct 23, Philippines
Exhibition – Drawings from the Heart: Tomie de Paola Turns 75 ~ ongoing until Nov 1, Amherst, MA, USA
Picture Perfect: Art from Caldecott Award Books, 2006-2009~ ongoing until Nov 8, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA
Moscow International Book Fair~ Sep 2 – 7, Moscow, Russia
Their Magical Years: a National Workshop on Early Childhood Learning and Development~ Sep 3 – 5, New Delhi, India
Beijing International Book Fair~ Sep 3 – 7, Beijing, China
Munsch a Bunch of Miles for Literacy~ Sep 3 – 11, Canmore, AB, Canada
Decatur Book Festival~ Sep 4 – 6, Decatur, GA, USA
heARTlines: Children’s Literature and Book Illustration Festival ~ Sep 4 – Oct 4, Mundaring, Australia
22nd Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava~ Sep 4 – Oct 26, Bratislava, Slovakia
International Literacy Day~ Sep 8
UNESCO Literary Prize Awards Presentation~ Sep 8, Paris, France
Brisbane Writers Festival~ Sep 9 – 13, Brisbane, Australia
International Children’s and Youth Literature Festival~ Sep 9 – 13, Berlin, Germany
The Kennedy Center’s 13th Annual Multicultural Children’s Book Festival~ Sep 12, Washington, D.C., USA
CYA later, Alligator – Children’s and Young Adult Writers And Illustrators Conference~ Sep 12, Brisbane, Australia
57th St. Children’s Book Fair~ Sep 13, Chicago, IL, USA
10th Annual Hog Wild About Reading: A Motorcycle Ride For Literacy~ Sep 13, Port Moody, BC, Canada
Book Blogger Appreciation Week~ Sep 14 – 18
Hispanic Heritage Month~ Sep 15 – Oct 15, USA
The Manila International Book Fair: Words Without Borders~ Sep 16 – 20, Manila, Philippines
The Art of Allen Say: A Sense of Place~ Sep 16 – Oct 28, Exeter, NH, USA
2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominees Announced~ Sep 17, Sweden
International Symposium: Beyond Borders: Art, Narrative and Culture in Picturebooks~ Sep 18 – 20, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature~ Sep 18 – 27, Bath, United Kingdom
Tamejavi – Our Voice, Our Stories: A Path to Inclusion~ Sep 19, Fresno, CA, USA
Eden Mills Writers’ Festival~ Sep 20, Eden Mills, ON, Canada
Thin Air – Winnipeg International Writers Festival~ Sep 20 – 27, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
International Day of Peace~ Sep 21
The 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture~ Sep 22 – 25, Johannesburg, South Africa
Canwest Raise-a-Reader Day~ Sep 23, Canada
25th Annual Göteborg Book Fair~ Sep 24 – 27, Göteborg, Sweden
Darling Children’s Book Fair~ Sep 24 – 26, Darling, South Africa
Reading Association of Ireland’s Annual International Conference: Literacy in the 21st Century: Perspectives, Challenges & Transformations~ Sep 24 – 26, Dublin, Ireland
Margarita Engle ~ Finding the Poetry in History~ Sep 25, Fresno, CA, USA
Wigtown Book Festival~ Sep 25 – Oct 4, Wigtown, United Kingdom
The Children’s Bookshow: Picture Books and Poetry ~Sep 25 – Nov 25, United Kingdom
National Book Festival~ Sep 26, Washington, D.C., USA
Children’s Book Seminar – SCBWI at UP Visayas 2009~ Sep 26, Iloilo City, Philippines
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read~ Sep 26 – Oct 3, USA
The Word on the Street National Book and Magazine Festival: Celebrating Reading. Advocating Literacy. ~ Sep 27, Canada
New Zealand Reading Association 2009 Conference~ Sep 27 – 30, Queenstown, New Zealand
