September 6th is National Read A Book Day. It’s hard to keep up with all the different book’ish holiday’s. I did not know about this one, but luckily I have some author friends who posted about it on Facebook. Since there are so many day to celebrate books and reading I thought I’d create a list for all of us bloggers to reference.
Book’ish Holidays
1st Sat in February – Take Your Child to the Library Day
March 2nd – Read Across America (Dr. Seuss Day)
1st Thursday in March – World Book Day
March 25th – National Tolkien Reading Day
April – National Poetry Month
April 2nd – International Children’s Book Day
April 9-15th, 2017 – National Library Week
April 12th – D.E.A.R Day (Drop Everything And Read/ Beverly Cleary’s Brithday)
May 1-7th, 2017 – Children’s Book Week
May 21st – National Readathon Day
May 25th – Towel Day
July 30th – Paperback Book Day
September – Library Card Sign-up Month
September 6th – Read A Book Day
September 7th – Buy A Book Day
September 22nd – Hobbit Day
September 24 – 30th, 2017 – Banned Books Week
October 8 – 18th, 2017 – Teen Read Week
Oh and what am I reading on #readabookday? Rags and Ruin by Bob Dixon which I received from the great people at Ravenswood Publishing as an eARC.
If you love books and are on Pinterest check out my #WorldBookDay board:
Do you know of any Book’ish days that need to be added to my list? Leave a comment below.