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1. February Events

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Growing Up Asian in America Art & Essay Contest for Youth~ entry deadline Mar 6, San Francisco, CA, USA

StoryFeast 2008 - International Storytelling Festival~ Feb 1 - 3, Vancouver, BC, Canada

18th New Delhi World Book Fair~ Feb 2 - 10, New Delhi, India

National African American Read-In~ Feb 2 - 3, USA

SCBWI Annual Winter Conference~ Feb 8 - 10, New York, NY, USA

First Nations Public Library Week~ Feb 11 - 16, Canada

ALOUD: A Celebration for Young Readers~ Feb 12 - 14, Toronto, ON, Canada

Taipei International Book Exhibition~ Feb 13 - 18, Taipai, Taiwan

Cybils - Children’s and YA Bloggers’ Literary Award Winners Announced ~ Feb 14

International Australia and New Zealand SCBWI Conference~ Feb 23 - 24, Sydney, Australia

Freedom to Read Week~ Feb 24 - Mar 1, Canada

Kiriyama Prize Finalists Announced~ Feb 26, USA

New Zealand Post Book Award Winners Announced~ Feb 26, New Zealand

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2. Read Out Loud!

Below Philip Davis, author of Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life, combines science with literature to convince us to read out loud more often. To read his other blog posts click here. This piece first appeared in Moreover.

I have just launched a new M.A. course in bibliotherapy—by which I mean to ask, What help can reading provide for people? But I am not allowed to call the course “M.A. in bibliotherapy” because some of scientists at my university were not too keen on the word, accepted though it is in the States. I think they confused it with aromatherapy, when in the great words of the poet Gray, on the neglect of lowly human worth:

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. (more…)

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