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2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominees Announced~ Sweden
Skipping Stones Youth Honor Award Winners Announced
Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre 2010 Exhibits~ Australia
Beijing International Book Fair~ ongoing until Sep 3, Beijing, China
Taranaki Children’s Book Festival~ ongoing until Sep 4, Taranaki, New Zealand
Western Australia Spring Poetry Festival and National Poetry Week~ ongoing until Sep 5, Australia
Melbourne Writers Festival: Stories From Every Angle~ ongoing until Sep 5, Melbourne, Australia
Singapore International Storytelling Festival~ ongoing until Sep 8, Singapore
Childrens Books Ireland and SCBWI Ireland Present: Between The Lines, an information seminar on writing and illustrating for children ~ Sep 11, Dublin, Ireland
Dromkeen Exhibitions: Mbobo Tree, The Race for the Chinese Zodiac, and Stranded~ ongoing until Sep 17, Dromkeen, Australia
2010 Bologna Illustrators Exhibition of Children’s Books~ ongoing until Sep 26, Nishinomiya, Japan
An Exquisite Vision: The Art of Lisbeth Zwerger~ongoing until Sep 26, Amherst, MA, USA
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibit: Golden Kite, Golden Dreams: the SCBWI Awards~ ongoing until Oct 1, Abilene, TX, USA
International Youth Library Exhibition: The Treasury of Binette Schroeder~ ongoing until Oct 1, Munich, Germany
Words+Pictures=Book, Contemporary Malaysian Picture Book Illustration~ ongoing until Oct 3, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mirror, an Exhibition by Children’s Author and Artist Jeannie Baker~ ongoing until Oct 10, Australia
Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art Exhibit: From the Collection~ ongoing until Oct 24, Riddells Creek, Australia
International Youth Library Exhibit: Shaun Tan, Pictures and Books~ ongoing until Oct 31, Munich, Germany
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Get Caught Reading Month~ USA
National Share-a-Story Month~ United Kingdom
Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month~ USA
Asian Heritage Month~ Canada
Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature to be Announced~ USA
USBBY - Bridge to Understanding Award Winner to be Announced ~ USA
Discovering Ethnic Minorities - Storytelling Workshops for Children~ Hong Kong
5th Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature~ ongoing until May 3, New York, NY, USA
35th Buenos Aires International Book Fair~ ongoing until May 11, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Books Illustrated Traveling Exhibition: An Australian Menagerie -Australian picture books~ongoing until mid Jun, China
Exhibition of Prize Winning Works of 16th Noma Concours (2008) “Palette of Dream Colours IV”~ ongoing until Jul 5, Tokyo, Japan
The Child and the Book Conference: This Land is Our Land~ May 1 - 3, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
BOOKFEST - The Vancouver Island Children’s Book Festival~ May 2, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
IRA’s 54th Annual Convention: Reading, Writing and Conversations~ May 3 - 7, Minneapolis, MN, USA
ALOUD: a Celebration for Young Readers~ May 4 - 6, Toronto, ON, Canada
WordPower~ May 4 - 8, Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
Tehran International Book Fair~ May 6 - 16, Tehran, Iran
Mapfre Hay Festiva~ May 7 - 10, Alhambra, Spain
Once Upon a Time: Children’s Book Illustrators, Then and Now~ May 8 - Jun 14, Oakland, CA, USA
Mt. San Antonio College’s Children’s Literature Day~ May 9, Walnut, CA, USA
Children’s Book Week~ May 11 - 17, USA
New Zealand Post Book Awards Festival~ May 11 - 20, New Zealand
Forest of Reading, Festival of Trees~ May 13 - 14, Toronto, ON, Canada
Auckland Writers and Readers Festival~ May 13 - 17, Auckland, New Zealand
Surabaya Book Fair~ May 13 - 17, Surabaya, Indonesia
Seoul International Book Fair~ May 13 - 17, Seoul, Korea
The 5th China International Cultural Industries Fair~ May 15 - 18, Shenzhen, China
African American Book Festival~ May 15 - 16, Mt. Vernon, NY, USA
Mother’s Day Readings With Authors Mitali Perkins, Christina Seid, Pooja Makhijani, and Others~ May 16, New York, NY, USA
Children’s Books Ireland Conference: Challenge and Change in Children’s Books~ May 16 - 17, Dublin, Ireland
National Black Book Festival~ May 16 - 17, Houston, TX, USA
Sydney Writers’ Festival~ May 18 - 24, Sydney, Australia
The Foundation for Children’s Books New England Voices Series with Author/Illustrators Grace Lin and Giles Laroche~ May 19, Boston, MA, USA
Bisto Children’s Book of the Year Awards Presentations~ May 20, Dublin, Ireland
The Guardian Hay Festival~ May 21 - 31, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
WriteAway Conference: Something Old, Something New -approaches to classic literature, culture and heritage in education~ May 22, London, United Kingdom
Storytelling Association Singapore Presents Silver and Gold: Precious Stories to Inspire Young and Old~ May 23, Singapore
World Village Festival~ May 23 - 24, Helsinki, Finland
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Annual Book Fair~ May 23 - 31, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Library and Information Week~ May 25 - 31, Australia
National Simultaneous Storytime~ May 28, Australia
International Latino Book Awards Presentations~ May 28, New York, NY, USA
Reading Matters Youth Literature Conference~ May 28 - 30, Melbourne, Australia
BookExpo America~ May 28 - 31, New York, NY, USA
Thessaloniki Book Fair~ May 28 - 31, Thessaloniki, Greece
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibit: The Wizards of Pop -Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart~ May 28 - Sep 19, Abilene, TX, USA
Canadian Library Association National Conference and Trade Show~ May 29 - Jun 1, Montreal , QC, Canada
World Book Fair~ May 29 - Jun 7, Singapore
