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Black History Month~ Canada
African American History Month~ USA
National African American Read-in~ USA
The Katha Chitrakala Award (Excellence in Children’s Book Illustrations) Winners Announced~ India
The Golden Age of the Picture Book: 1920s & 1930s – History’s Message to Children~ ongoing until Feb 6, Tokyo, Japan
The 11th Annual National Storytelling Week~ ongoing until Feb 5, United Kingdom
Kolkata Book Fair~ ongoing until Feb 6, Kolkata, India
Tales in the Garden Festival~ ongoing until Feb 12, Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand
Mirror, an Exhibition by Children’s Author and Artist Jeannie Baker~ ongoing until Feb 13, Australia
2011 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award~ submissions accepted until Feb 25, United Kingdom
International Youth Library Exhibit: The Fabulous World of John Kilaka, Pictures and Drawings by a Tanzanian Artist~ ongoing until Feb 28, Munich, Germany
Entries Accepted for The Growing up Asian in America Contest~ ongoing until Mar 10, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011 PBBY-Alcala Prize~ submissions accepted until Mar 30, Philippines
International Youth Library Presents Walls: A Book and an Exhibition~ ongoing until Apr 5, Munich, Germany
International Youth Library Exhibit: Manga From Japan~ ongoing until Apr 5, Munich, Germany
Making Books Sing Presents a One-Woman Play Based on The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos by Lucía Gonzalez~ ongoing until spring, New York, NY, USA
Partners in Wonder: Selections from the Collection of Jane Yolen~ ongoing until May 1, Amherst, MA, USA
Look! The Art of Australian Picture Books Today~ ongoing until May 29, Melbourne, Australia
The Art Institute of Chicago Exhibit: Real and Imaginary: Three Latin American Artists – Raúl Colón, David Diaz and Yuyi Morales~ ongoing until May 29, Chicago, IL, USA
Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney~ ongoing until May 30, Stockbridge, MA, USA
Animal Fair: Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in Children’s Book Illustrations~ ongoing until Jun 5, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Seven Stories Exhibit: There’s Nuffin Like a Puffin!~ ongoing until Jun 27, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
International Youth Library Exhibit: The World in Miniature. The Family in Historic Picture Books and Children’s Literature~ ongoing until Aug 31, Munich, Germany
World Congress of Asian Studies~ Feb 2 – 6, Kolkata, India
Children’s Literature Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Images and Illustrations in Children’s and Young Adult Literature~ Feb 5, Sarasota, FL, USA
2011 Sydney Taylor Book Award Blog Tour~ Feb 6 – 11
36th Congress of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA): Storytelling in Literature, Language, and Culture ~ Feb 7 – 9, Auckland, New Zealand
Translated! An Interactive Festival of Literary Translation~ Feb 7 – 12, Melbourne, Australia
iConference 2011~ Feb 8 – 11, Seattle, WA, USA
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Exhibit: What a Circus! The Art of Etienne Delessert~ Feb 8 – Jun 5, Amherst, MA, USA
Nordic Children’s Literature Conference~ Feb 9 – 11, Norway
Taipei Book Fair~ Feb 9 – 14, Taipei, Taiwan
Sun Gallery’s Twenty-second Annual Children’s Book Illustrator Exhibit~ Feb 9 – Apr 16, Hayward, CA, USA
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibit: Anita Lobel – All the World’s a Stage~ Feb 10 – May 28, Abilene, TX, USA
Book Launch: Out of the Way! Out of the Way! by Uma Krishnaswami, pictures Uma Krishnaswamy~ Feb 11, Chennai, India
Rhizomes VI – Other Words, Other Worlds: Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in a Globalizing Era~ Feb 11 – 12, Brisbane, Australia
Imagine Children’s Festival~ Feb 12 – 27, London, United Kingdom
2010 Cybils (the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards) Winners Announced~ Feb 14
First Nations Public Library Week~ Feb 14 – 19, Province of Ontario, Canada
LSE Space for Thought Literary Festival: Crossing Borders~ Feb 16 – 19, London, United Kingdom
12th International Vilnius Book Fair: Literature Without Frontiers~ Feb 17 – 20, Vilnius, Lithuania
All In! Young Writers Seminar~ Feb 19, Singapore
25th Jerusalem Book Fair~ Feb 20 – 25, Jerusalem, Israel
Freedom to Read Week~ Feb 20 – 26, Canada
2010-2011 Mathieu Da Costa Challenge Winners Announced~ Feb 22, Canada
Challenging Books: Who Should Decide What Our Children Read?~ Feb 23, Toronto, ON, Canada
The International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference~ Feb 24 – 25, Orlando, FL, USA
The Arabian Reading Assocation’s (TARA) Conference~ Feb 24 – 26, Manama, Bahrain
International Conference for Writers and Translators (IBBY Flanders, IBBY Netherlands, Friedrich Bödecker Kreis Germany)~ Feb 24 – 26, Antwerp, Belgium
SCBWI’s Annual Golden Gate Conference At Asilomar~ Feb 25 – 27, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Bath Lit Fest~ Feb 25 – Mar 6, Bath, United Kingdom
The Graphic Novel Today, a Special Children’s Literature Network Presentation for Librarians and Educators and Bookology~ Feb 26, Plymouth, MA, USA
Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable Presents: Serendipity – a Graphic Novel Extravaganza~ Feb 26, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature Presents: Children’s Literature, Classics, and the City~ Feb 26, Dublin, Ireland
19th Annual Hubbs Children’s Literature Conference~ Feb 27, Saint Paul, MN, USA
The Brown Bookshelf has just announced the authors and illustrators who will be spotlighted during their fifth annual 28 Days Later initiative, a celebration of veteran and emerging children’s authors of color. The event will take place during the month of February and coincides with Black History Month in Canada and the USA. For those interested in books by and about people of color, The Brown Bookshelf is a fabulous resource and you’ll want to check in daily during 28 Days Later to see the treats they have in store!
