October 2009 Events
Thursday, October 1st, 2009(Click on event name for more information)
Canadian Library Month~ Canada
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read~ ongoing until Oct 3, USA
Hispanic Heritage Month~ ongoing until Oct 15, USA
Entries Accepted for the 2010 PBBY-Salanga Prize~ ongoing until Oct 23, Philippines
22nd Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava~ ongoing until Oct 26, Bratislava, Slovakia
The Art of Allen Say: A Sense of Place~ ongoing until Oct 28, Exeter, NH, USA
Picture Perfect: Art from Caldecott Award Books, 2006-2009~ ongoing until Nov 8, Chicago, IL, USA
National Young Writers’ Festival~ Oct 1 – 5, Newcastle, Australia
4th Annual Cybils (Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards) Nominations Open~ Oct 1 – 15
The Children’s Book Festival~ Oct 1 – 31, Ireland
Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children’s Literature Awards Ceremony~ Oct 2, Boston, MA, USA
8th IBBY Regional Conference “Children´s Books: Where Worlds Meet”~ Oct 2 – 4, St. Charles, IL, USA
2009 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition of Children’s Books~ Oct 3 – Nov 1, Takahama City, Japan
Orange County Children’s Book Festival~ Oct 4, Costa Mesa, CA, USA
13th Poetry Africa~ Oct 5 – 10, Durban, South Africa
Children’s Book Week: Words and Pictures~ Oct 5 – 11, United Kingdom
TaleBlazers Festival~ Oct 5 – 30, Province of Alberta, Canada
6th International Literacy Conference~ Oct 7 – 9, Penang, Malaysia
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival~ Oct 7 – 11, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Inky Awards Shortlist Announced, On-line Voting Begins~ Oct 9, Australia
Latino Book and Book Festival~ Oct 10 – 11, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Monterrey International Book Fair~ Oct 10 – 18, Monterrey, Mexico
Frankfurt Book Fair~ Oct 14 – 18, Frankfurt, Germany
OGAMAS Aboriginal Literary Festival: What We Gather For Each Other~ Oct 15 – 17, Brandon, MB, Canada
56th Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards Ceremony~ Oct 16, New York, NY, USA
International Conference on the Book~ Oct 16 – 18, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Américas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Winners Ceremony~ Oct 17, Washington, D.C., USA
SCBWI Tokyo Presents Writing for Children: The Picture Book with Author Holly Thompson~ Oct 17, Kyoto, Japan
CHARACTER COUNTS! Week~ Oct 18 – 24, USA
YALSA’s Teen Read Week: Read Beyond Reality~ Oct 18 – 24, USA
Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival~ Oct 18 – 25, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Library Exhibition~ Oct 18 – 25, Jakarta, Indonesia
Utan Kayu International Literary Biennale~ Oct 20 – 24, Bogor and Jakarta, Indonesia
14th Annual New England Conference on Multicultural Education~ Oct 21, Hartford, CT, USA
Rabbit Hill Festival of Literature: Creative Approaches to Biography and Historical Fiction~ Oct 22 – 24, Westport, CT, USA
Finnish Reading Association Conference: New Literacies-Reading and Writing with New Technologies~ Oct 23 – 24, Jyväskylä, Finland
Children’s Literature Council Fall Gala~ Oct 24, Los Angeles, CA, USA
IBBY Congreso Internacional Lectura~ Oct 26 – 31, Havana, Cuba
Book Week~ Oct 27 – Nov 9, Japan
National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) 19th International Conference~Oct 28 – Nov 1, Denver, CO, USA
Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Awards Ceremony~ Oct 30, San Marcos, TX, USA
Children’s Literature Festival~ Oct 31, Keene, NH, USA
