February 2011 Events
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Click on event name for more information
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
