March 2009 Events
Sunday, March 1st, 2009(Click on event name for more information)
The Art of Picture Books Exhibition~ ongoing until Mar 27, Bristol, United Kingdom
20th Annual Children’s Book Illustrator Exhibit~ ongoing until Apr 18, Hayward, CA, USA
Read Across America Day~ Mar 2, USA
Words on Wheels~ Mar 2 – 7, New Zealand
Papirolas Festival for Children and Youth~ Mar 3 – 8, Guadalajara, Mexico
World Book Day~ Mar 5, United Kingdom and Ireland
Growing Up Asian in America Art and Essay Contest~ entry deadline Mar 5, San Francisco, CA, USA
40th Annual Conference on Children’s Literature~ Mar 6 – 7, Athens, GA, USA
Asilomar Regional Reading Conference: Fired Up for Literacy~ Mar 6 – 8, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Shanghai International Literary Festival~ Mar 6 -22, Shanghai, China
Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC)Choices Day and Charlotte Zolotow Award Event~ Mar 7, Madison, WI, USA
Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival~ Mar 8 – 18, Hong Kong
ALA’s Teen Tech Week~ Mar 8 – 14, USA
Share a Story – Shape a Future, A Blog Tour for Literacy~ Mar 9
12th Time of the Writer International Writers Festival~ Mar 9 – 14, Durban, South Africa
Rhinelander Children’s Book Fest~ Mar 10 -11, Rhinelander, WI, USA
Annual SCBWI (SA) Publishers Show & Tell Day~ Mar 11, Cape Town, South Africa
19th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair~ Mar 12 – 22, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Children’s Books in Asia, Africa and Latin America Symposium~ Mar 13, Tokyo, Japan
13th Annual Charlotte S. Huck Children’s Literature Festival~ Mar 13 – 14, Redlands, CA, USA
Salon du Livre Paris~ Mar 13 – 18, Paris, France
41st Annual Children’s Literature Festival~ Mar 15 – 17, Warrensburg, MO, USA
Exhibition of Prize Winning Works of 16th Noma Concours (2008) “Palette of Dream Colours IV”~ Mar 15 – Jul 5, Tokyo, Japan
Somerset Celebration of Literature~ Mar 16 – 20, Mudgeeraba, Australia
World Storytelling Day~ Mar 20
Harmony Day~ Mar 21, Australia
World Poetry Day~ Mar 21
Bologna Children’s Book Fair~ Mar 23 – 26, Bologna, Italy
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Winners Announced~ Mar 24, Vimmerby, Sweden
All-Saints College Festival of Young Adult and Children’s Literature~ Mar 25 – 27, Bull Creek, Australia
7th Bangkok International Book Fair & 37th National Book Fair~ Mar 26 – Apr 6, Bangkok, Thailand
Oxford Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Colloquium Presents an International Conference: Place and Space in Children’s Literature~ Mar 27 – 28, Oxford, United Kingdom
Children’s Literature Council Spring Workshop: I Can Read It by Myself…But Do I Want To? Inspiring Emergent Readers~ Mar 28, Glendale, CA, USA
Margaret Mahy Day~ Mar 28, New Zealand
Reading the World: A Conference Celebrating Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults~ Mar 28 – 29, San Francisco, CA, USA
Norman Lindsay Festival of Children’s Literature~ Mar 28 – 29, Faulconbridge, Australia
Childhood in its Time Conference: The Child in British Literature~ Mar 28 – 29, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Latino Book & Family Festival~ Mar 28 – 29, Chicago, IL, USA
