Best Kids Books on Holidays & Special Days
Celebrate Special Days with Children's Books

	January			February
1 1 4 17 var 20 var 27 var	New Year's Day Anniversary of Opening of Ellis Island Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday Benjamin Franklin's birthday MLK Jr. Birthday (3rd Monday) Inauguration Day Chinese New Year (varies per lunar cycle) Mozart's Birthday  100th day of school (varies per district)		3 4 5 12 12 14 20 22 mo	Anniv of Endangered Species Act Rosa Parks' Birthday    Groundhog Day    Charles Darwin's Birthday K-5   Gr.6-8 Abraham Lincoln Birthday Valentine's Day    Presidents' Day  (3rd Monday) George Washington's Birthday    Black History Month
	March			April
2 3 10 11 13 14 17 20 21 30 mo	Dr. Seuss Birthday National Anthem Day  Anniversary of Telephone Invention  Johnny Appleseed Day Uranus discovered    Albert Einstein's Birthday    St. Patrick's Day    First Day of Spring  UN Day--Elimination of Discrimination Vincent Van Gogh's Birthday    National Women's History Month		1 6 9 9 11 13 var 20 22 23 25	April Fool's Day    North Pole Discovered    School Librarian Day    Civil War Ends--Anniv    Civil Rights Act of 1968    Thomas Jefferson birthday    Easter Sunday    Holocaust Day    Earth Day        Shakespeare's Birthday    Arbor Day
	May			June
1 1 5 10 14 19 28 var	May Day    School Principal's Day    Cinco de Mayo    Astronomy Day    Lewis & Clark Expedition Start Date Armed Forces Day    Memorial Day    Mother's Day  (2nd Sunday in May)		6 6 12 14 21 25 27 var	D-Day Anniversary Susan B Anthony arrested for voting    Anne Frank's Birthday    Flag Day     First Day of Summer    Battle of Little Bighorn    Helen Keller's Birthday    Father's Day    (3rd Sunday in June)
	July			August
1 1-3 2 4 20 var	Postal Worker Day Battle of Gettysburg Anniversary Civil Rights Act of 1964 Fourth of July / Independence Day Anniversary of the First Moon Landing Space Week		15 18 19 28 var var	Transcontinental Railroad Completed Poetry Day Aviation Day / Orville Wright Birthday March on Washington Anniversary National Parks Month First Day/Week of School
	September			October
var var 11 17 22 22 26 mo var	First Day of School (varies by district) Labor Day (first Monday in September) 9/11 Remembrance Constitution Day  1st Day of Fall -- Books about Fall Emancipation Proclamation Anniv. Johnny Appleseed Day National Hispanic Heritage Month Grandparent's Day		13 13 16 25 27 28 29    31 var	Columbus Day Native American Day World Food Day Make a Difference Day Theodore Roosevelt Birthday Statue of Liberty Day Internet Created Halloween National Character Counts Week
	November			December
1 7 16 11 var 30 var mo mo	Day of the Dead Election Day UN Int'l Day for Tolerance Veterans' Day Thanksgiving Day (3rd Thursday in Nov) Mark Twain's Birthday Random Acts of Kindness Week Nat'l American Indian Month Ramadan		1 7 7 15 17 21 var 25 var	Rosa Parks Day (anniversary of arrest) Letter Writing Day Pearl Harbor Day Bill of Rights Day Wright Brothers Day  First Day of Winter / Winter Bks Channukah Christmas Kwanzaa