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National Year of Reading~ Australia
Américas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award Presentation~ Washington, D.C., USA
Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF)~ ongoing until Sep 2, Beijing, China
The Word on the Street National Book and Magazine Festival: Celebrating Reading. Advocating Literacy ~ (September dates vary by location), Canada
Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 2012, United Kingdom
2012 South Asia Book Award~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 2012
SingTel Asian Picture Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 1012, Singapore
Exhibits of Winning Entries from the 2011 Growing Up Asian in America Contest~ ongoing until Feb 2013, USA
Skipping Stones Youth Honor Awards Celebrating Multicultural Awareness, International Understanding and Nature Appreciation~ submissions accepted until June 25, 2013, USA
Singapore International Storytelling Festival (SISF)~ Sep 1 – 5, Singapore
Delhi Book Fair~ Sep 1 – 9, Delhi, India
Ghummakkad Narain – the Traveling Literature Festival~ Sep 1 – 30, New Delhi, India
¡Cuéntame un cuento! : Latino Cultural Inclusion in Juvenile Collections Webinar
~ Sep 4
Nairn Book & Arts Festival~ Sep 4 – 9, Nairn, United Kingdom
International Children’s and Youth Literature Festival~ Sep 4 – 16, Berlin, Germany
Brisbane Writers Festival~ Sep 5 – 9, Brisbane, Australia
Moscow International Book Fair~ Sep 5 – 10, Moscow, Russia
International Literacy Day~ Sep 8
UNESCO Literary Prize Awards Presentation~ Sep 8, Paris, France
Book Blogger Appreciation Week~ Sep 10 – 14
Fairytale Town’s Giving Voice to Children’s Literature: Parent Workshop~ Sept 12, Sacramento, CA, USA
The Manila International Book Fair: Words Without Borders~ Sep 12 – 16, Manila, Philippines
Ethics and Children’s Literature Symposium~ Sep 13 – 16, Greencastle IN, USA
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre Presents: The Art of the Picture Book Exhibition~ Sep 14 – Oct 14, Montreal, QC, Canada
Flor y Canto Children’s Poetry Festival~ Sep 15, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hispanic Heritage Month~ Sep 15 – Oct 15, USA
Telling Tales: A Family Festival of Stories~ Sep 16, Rockton, ON, Canada
BANNED! [The Title of This Event Has Been Censored]- a lively panel discussion of literature and censorship with authors, educators, and librarians~ Sep 16, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Joint Conference of Librarians of Color (JCLC)~ Sep 19 – 23, Kansas City, MO, USA
Chapter & Verse, a book club for adults discussing children’s lit~ Sep 20, USA
The Carle Honors 2012 Annual Gala and Art Auction~ Sep 20, New York, NY, USA
International Day of Peace~ Sep 21
Thin Air – Winnipeg International Writers Festival~ Sep 21 – 29, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
International Day of Peace~ Sep 21
4th Annual Elizabeth York Children’s Literature Festival~ Sep 22 Anderson, IN, USA
National Book Festival~ Sep 24 – 25, Washington, D.C., USA
Appeldore Book Festival Family Day~ Sep 26, Appledore, United Kingdom
Reading Association of Ireland Annual Conference: From Literacy Research to Classroom Practice: Insights and Inspiration~ Sep 27 – 29, Dublin, Ireland
The Boston Globe–Horn (Children’s) Book Awards Ceremony~ Sep 28, Boston, MA, USA
6th Annual KidlitCon~ Sep 28 – 29, New York, NY, USA
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature~Sep 28 – Oct 7, Bath, United Kingdom
Wigtown Book Festival~ Sep 28 – Oct 7, Wigtown, United Kingdom
The Children’s Bookshow: Stories From Around The World~ Sep 28 – Nov 8, United Kingdom
Horn Book at Simmons One-Day Colloquium: Look Out!~ Sep 29, Boston, MA, USA
ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival~ Sep 29 – 30, Sacramento, Ca, USA
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Freedom to Read~ Sep 30 – Oct 6, USA
Fremantle Children’s Literature Centre Exhibits and Programs~ Fremantle, Australia
Dromkeen National Centre for Picture Book Art Exhibits~ Riddells Creek, Australia
Books Illustrated Events and Exhibitions~ Middle Park, Australia
International Youth Library Exhibits~ Munich, Germany
Tulika Book Events~ India
International Library of Children’s Literature Events~ Tokyo, Japan
Newcastle University Programme of Talks on Children’s Books for 2011-2012~ Newcastle, United Kingdom
Seven Stories (the National Home of Children’s Books in Britain) Events~ Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Discover Children’s Story Centre~ London, United Kingdom
Arne Nixon Center’s Children’s Literature Book Clubs for Adults Events~ USA
Events Sponsored by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress~ USA
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art~ Amherst, MA, USA
The National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature Exhibits~ Abilene, TX, USA
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The Canadian Children’s Book Centre Presents: The Art of the Picture Book Exhibition ~ by Holly Kent, Sales and Marketing Manager, The Canadian Children’s Book Centre
(Part 3 of 3. Read Part 1 “The Canadian Children’s Book Centre Presents TD Canadian Children’s Book Week” here and Part 2 “The Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s TD Grade One Book Giveaway Program” here.)
It is through the support of generous sponsors, donations, and our members and subscribers that the Canadian Children’s Book Centre is able to run its many programs. We also hold fundraising events – one of the most exciting being The Art of the Picture Book Exhibition and Auction.
Over 80 original illustrations from Canadian picture books will be on exhibit at the world-famous Montreal Museum of Fine Art in fall 2012. Some of the most stunning images from Canadian picture books will be part of the exhibition celebrating Canadian children’s book illustrations. The exhibit will run from September 11 to October 14.
The kicker (for the Canadian Children’s Book Centre) is that each piece has been graciously donated by leading Canadian illustrators and the sale of these pieces will raise funds to support our programs, publications, and operating costs.
Works have been donated by renowned artists including Rebecca Bender (image on left), Geneviève Côté, Barbara Reid, Michael Martchenko, Mélanie Watt, and many more.
The month-long exhibit will be followed by Take Home an Original, an auction of the original art, on the evening of October 16, 2012.
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Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) is a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1976. We are dedicated to encouraging, promoting and supporting the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers. Our programs, publications, and resources help teachers, librarians, booksellers and parents select the very best for young readers.
At the heart of our work at the Canadian Children’s Book Centre is our love for the books that get published in Canada each year, and our commitment to raising awareness of the quality and variety of Canadian books for young readers.
Our programs, such as TD Canadian Children’s Book Week and the TD Grade One Book Giveaway, are designed to introduce young Canadian readers not only to the books all around them, but to the authors and illustrators that create them. Our quarterly magazine Canadian Children’s Book News and the annual Best Books for Kids & Teens selection guide are designed to help parents, librarians and educators discover the world of Canadian books and to help them to select the best reading material for young readers.
We are thrilled to have The Canadian Children’s Book Centre join us as PaperTigers’ Global Voices Guest Blogger for the month of August. Part 1 of the series “The Canadian Children’s Book Centre Presents TD Canadian Children’s Book Week” was posted here. Part 2 “The Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s TD Grade One Book Giveaway Program” was posted here.
The 33rd IBBY International Congress starts tomorrow, August 23rd and runs until August 26th at Imperial College, London. The theme of the 2012 congress is Crossing Boundaries: Translations and Migrations and will focus on how books and stories for children and young people can cross boundaries and migrate across different countries and cultures. The Congress will look at issues such globalisation, dual-language texts, cultural exchange and the art of translation and will explore how literature for children migrates and translates in all its forms. PaperTigers Editor Marjorie Coughlan will be presenting a paper entitled Escaping Conflict, Seeking Peace: picture books that relate refugee stories, and their importance.
During the Congress a dedicated team of bloggers will be providing a constant stream of news and reports from the sessions, events and social occasions. The main posts will be displayed on the font page of the IBBY Congress 2012 website. To view the whole blog, just choose BLOG from the HOME menu or visit http://www.ibbycongress2012.org/blog. You can subscribe to the blog by pointing your RSS feed reader (e.g. Google Reader) at the address http://www.ibbycongress2012.org/blog/?feed=rss2. The twitter hashtag for the Congress is #IBBY2012.
Bookshelf #27:
A.
11 years old
Bangalore, India
Here are some of my daughter’s treasures that I would like to share. Pardon the relative disarray: I haven’t got around to making bookshelves yet. These are housed in wardrobes that were cleansed of any clothes and other inconsequential stuff. The first photo is books at hand that A. has earmarked as ‘to be read over the next few weeks’. Note the Bill Bryson book at the far right in the upper row: A Really Short History of Nearly Everything. The second photo is of books A. has read. The third photo is the other half of the shelf shown in photo 2. Harry Potter books, Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series are behind these as is our collection of picture books by the Indian publishers. The thin red and white books obscured by the issue of Tell Me Why are our collection of the Amelia Bedelia books.
Submitted by: Sandhya, blogging at Saffron Tree and My Handful of the Sky!
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The South Asia Book Award, administered by the South Asia National Outreach Consortium, is given annually for up to two outstanding works of literature, from early childhood to secondary reading levels, which accurately and skillfully portrays South Asia or South Asians in the diasporas, that is the experience of individuals living in South Asia, or of South Asians living in other parts of the world. Up to five Honor Books and Highly Commended Books will also be recognized by the award committee for their contribution to this body of literature on the region.
PaperTigers congratulates the recently announced 2012 South Asia Book Award winners:
2012 Winners
Same, Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw (Henry Holt and Company, 2011). Pen Pals Elliot and Kailash discover that even though they live in different countries—America and India—they both love to climb trees, own pets, and ride school buses (Grade 5 & under).
Island’s End by Padma Venkatraman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2011). A young girl trains to be the new spiritual leader of her remote Andaman Island tribe, while facing increasing threats from the modern world(Grade 6 & above).
2012 Honor Books
Sita’s Ramayana by Samhita Arni, illustrations by Moyna Chitrakar (Groundwood Books, 2011). The Ramayana, one of the greatest legends of ancient India, is presented in the form of a visually stunning and gripping graphic novel, told from the perspective of the queen, Sita (Grade 6 & above).
Following My Paint Brush by Dulari Devi and Gita Wolf (Tara Books Pvt. Ltd, 2010). Following My Paint Brush is the story of Dulari Devi, a domestic helper who went on to become an artist in the Mithila style of folk painting from Bihar, eastern India (Grade 5 & under).
No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis (Groundwood Books, 2011). Valli has always been afraid of the people with leprosy living on the other side of the train tracks in the coal town of Jharia, India, so when aa encounter with a doctor reveals she too has the disease, Valli rejects help and begins a life on the streets. (Grade 6 & above).
Bookshelf #26:
Prarthana
5 years old
Mumbai, India
This is my 5 year old daughter Prarthana’s bookshelf. She has been an avid book lover since she was very very young! I still have the few odd cloth books that she used to chew on (quite literally!) when she was a baby. As an avid story teller herself – books are just a gateway to her imagination. Every time she picks up a new or old book, she builds up from the pictures to spin her very own unique yarns! Now that she has started to read, re-visiting books is an adventure again. I can see the joy in her eyes every time she can read a new word or decipher a phrase. She has now truly begun her journey into losing herself in a world of words and alternate realities. And it is with great pride that I observe her swelling yet well thumbed down bookshelf!
Submitted by: Nidhi at Momming around in Mumbai
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Attention authors and illustrators! Have you heard about the SingTel Asian Picture Book Award? If you have written or illustrated an unpublished Asian-themed picture book (targeted at children ages 0 to six years old) the National Book Development Council of Singapore looks forward to receiving your submission for this new award! Entries are being accepted until Dec. 31, 2012 with the inaugural SingTel Asian Picture Book Award to be presented next May at the 2013 Asian Festival of Children’s Content. Submissions will be accepted from writers and/or illustrators of any nationality and from any country who are 18 years of age and above. Here’s the press release:
The National Book Development Council of Singapore is delighted to announce the inaugural SingTel Asian Picture Book Award. Beginning in 2013, the award will be presented annually for an outstanding unpublished picture book with a distinctly Asian theme.
The objectives of the SingTel Asian Picture Book Award are as follows:
a) To encourage and inspire the publications of more Asian-themed picture books
b) To stimulate public interest and support for picture books with Asian themes
c) To recognise and award a prize to an excellent picture book with Asian theme each year
The SingTel Asian Picture Book Award offers a total of S$10,000 for the First Prize consisting of S$5,000 for an author and S$5,000 for an illustrator. These will be individually known as the SingTel Asian Picture Book Award – Author, and the SingTel Asian Picture Book Award – Illustrator.
Closing date for submissions is 31 December 2012. Official rules and regulations can be found here.
For more information, please visit www.bookcouncil.sg.
PaperTigers is proud sponsor of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content and looks forward to working with the AFCC in promoting and highlighting the richnesses of Asian Children’s literature.
Posted on the TVNZ website:
Acclaimed NZ children’s author Margaret Mahy passes away
Margaret Mahy, one of the world’s leading children’s authors, has died aged 76. The celebrated writer died in Christchurch this afternoon after a brief illness.
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Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival~ ongoing until July 1, Cardiff, Wales
4th International SCBWI Australia & New Zealand Conference~ ongoing until July 2, Woollahra, Australia
Manchester Children’s Book Festival~ ongoing until July 8, Manchester, United Kingdom
Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 2012, United Kingdom
2012 South Asia Book Award~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 2012
SingTel Asian Picture Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 1012, Singapore
Exhibits of Winning Entries from the 2011 Growing Up Asian in America Contest~ ongoing until Feb 2013, USA
NAIDOC Week~ July 3 – 10, Australia
London Literature Festival~ July 3 – 12, London, United Kingdom
Tokyo International Book Fair ~ July 5 – 8, Tokyo, Japan
48th UKLA International Conference~ July 6 – 8, Leicaster, United Kingdom
2012 Australian Literacy Educators’ Association (ALEA) Conference~ July 6 – 9, Sydney, Australia
5th Annual International Conference on Literature, Languages & Linguistics~ July 9 – 12, Athens, Greece
Children’s Book Fair~ July 9 – 28, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Importance of Children’s Literature~ July 10, Raleigh, NC, USA
Conference: Challenges that Face the Teaching of Reading from First to Third Grades of Primary Schools in Egypt~ July 11 – 12, Cairo, Egypt
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With our current PaperTigers issue focusing on the theme of Water in Multicultural Children’s Books and with water playing a crucial role in our Spirit of PaperTigers Outreach (read yesterday’s post to learn more), I was thrilled to learn that water-themed children’s stories will also by highlighted at next year’s Asian Festival of Children’s Content in Singapore!
Project Splash Asia! AFCC 2013
Next year will be the United Nations International Year of Water.
Community and school programmes in many countries will include reading, performing and creating water-themed stories.
Share your favourite stories that have water as a theme, such as Wave by Suzy Lee (California US: Chronicle Books, 2008), Amansinaya-Goddess of the Sea, by Eugene Evasco and Jomike Tejido (illustrator) (Philippines: LG&M, 2007), The Wakame Gatherers by Holly Thompson and Kazumi Wilds (illustrator) (California US: Shen’s Books, 2007), and Water Tales From Around the World (India: Tulika Publishers, 2010).
Project Splash Asia! aims to publish a bibliography and collection of favourite water-themed children’s stories from or about the region for AFCC 2013.
The National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) hopes the compilation of a bibliography of children’s stories around a universal theme will be a regular project for AFCC to showcase the diversity of talents and children’s literature in the region.
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An orphaned child
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother where are we?
My mind turned East, West, South and North
I could not believe
I looked all round; I could not get a sponsor
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother where is my father?
I cannot find my father
Who will pay my school fees?
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother why is there no free education for refugees?
Shall we ever go back to our country?
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Mother I wish I was in my country
I could continue with my education up to university
May god bring peace in our country Sudan?
Though I am an orphan
I would enjoy my sweet homeland
Name: Amoti Lillian, 15
School: Can-Rom Primary School, Primary 6
This poem comes from Refugee Children’s Voices: Thoughts and Art by Children Studying in UNHCR Settlements in Uganda, a booklet published by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in 2004 that can be downloaded from the Additional Resources in the Teachers’ Corner section of UNHCR’s website.
The UNHCR has just issued this video summarising the sobering 2011 UNHCR Global Trends Report…
This year the UNHCR invites us to show our support for the millions of refugees around the world by taking a pledge to spread the word of their plight – because “1 family torn apart by war is too many.”
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During our time at the recent Bologna Children’s Book Fair Marjorie and I had a lovely visit with Gita Wolf and Maegan Chadwick-Dobson from Tara Books. Tara Books is an award winning, independent publisher of picture books for adults and children based in Chennai, South India. Founded by Gita in 1994, Tara Books consists of a dedicated group of writers, designers and artists who remain “fiercely independent” and who strive to publish books with the unique union of fine form and rich content. Tara Books sets itself apart from other publishers by truly offering readers a literary and visual feast and they are especially known for their children’s books created by tribal artists in the Gond, Patua and Mithila styles which are made entirely from hand – from the paper to the printing and binding! Their book Waterlife by Rambharos Jha won the 2012 New Horizons Mention, BolognaRagazzi Awards and is PaperTigers’ Book of the Month.
Besides hearing about the latest Tara Book releases, Marjorie and I also learned more about their exciting new Book Building which just opened off Kuppam Beach Road in Thiruvanmiyur, South Chennai, India. After years of operating out of small rental places and not being able to adequately showcase their books, Tara Books embarked on an ambitious plan to construct a three store
y, environmentally friendly building (80% solar powered) that would house all aspects of their business and would become an unique cultural space dedicated to exploring the form of the book. In February 2012 Book Building opened its doors to much acclaim and fanfare! Book lovers and visual lovers of all ages are invited to come enjoy ongoing exhibitions, watch visual artists at work, participate in workshops, browse though books and art pri
nts in the bookstore, enjoy specially commissioned wall murals created by a range of Tara Book artists, and more! Permanent exhibition highlights include Bhajju’s Mural, an original mural by Gond artist Bhajju Shyam (see PaperTigers’ gallery of his work here) on display in the outdoor gallery (images of the mural being painted can be seen here) and The Patua Pillar by Patua artists Manu and Swarna (images of the mural being painted can be seen here).
Book Building is open Monday to Saturday from 10am – 7:30pm and admission is free. To hear about upcoming activities including the launch of an exciting new annual Carnival of Books Festival and the inauguration of the children’s reading corner, visit Tara Books’
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The Guardian Hay Festival: A Festival for Tots, Teens and In-Betweens~ ongoing until June 10, United Kingdom
Art, Children’s Literature, and the Environment: Art and Photography from Green Earth Book Awards~ ongoing until June 10, Salisbury, MD, USA
Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 2012, United Kingdom
2012 South Asia Book Award~ submissions accepted until Dec 31
SingTel Asian Picture Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 1012, Singapore
Trail of Tales~ June 1 – 4, New Zealand
SCBWI Rocky Mountain’s One Day Symposium: Once Upon a Tablet: Children’s Books in a Digital Age~ June 2, Golden, CO, USA
Voices on the Coast: A Youth Literature Festival~ June 2 – 6, Sunshine Coast, Australia
SCBWI The Netherlands Hosts “A Celebration of Soldier Bear”~ June 7, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bridlington Poetry Festival~ June 8 – 10, Skirlaugh, United Kingdom
National Black Book Festival~ June 8 – 10, Houston, TX, USA
CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards Winners Announced~ June 14, London, United Kingdom
39th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference: Literary Slipstreams~ June 14 – 16, Boston, MA, USA
Borders Book Festival~ June 14 – 17, Melrose, United Kingdom
Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival~ June 15 – 17, Los Angeles, CA, USA
International Day of the African Child~ June 16
SCBWI Tokyo Translation Day 2012: Bringing Japanese Teen Literature to the World~ June 16, Yokohama,
Earlier this year the Children’s Book Council (located in the USA) launched the CBC Diversity Committee in order to:
increase the diversity of voices and experiences contributing to children’s literature. To create this change, 
the Committee strives to build awareness that the nature of our society must be represented within the children’s publishing industry.
We endeavor to encourage diversity of race, gender, geographical origin, sexual orientation, and class among both the creators of and the topics addressed by children’s literature. We strive for a more diverse range of employees working within the industry, of authors and illustrators creating inspiring content, and of characters depicted in children’s literature.
Click here to visit the CBC Diversity Committee Blog and here to access their Resources page which contains information put together by the Committee for anyone interested in producing, promoting, buying, or writing diverse books for children.
Click here to read John A. Sellers’ recent Publisher Weekly article CBC Diversity Committee: Starting Conversations and Building a Following.
Here in Canada we are currently in the midst of celebrating TD Canadian Children’s Book Week: the single most important national event celebrating Canadian children’s books and the importance of reading! During the week close to 35,000 children, teens and adults are participating in activities held in every province and territory across the country. The theme for TD Canadian Children’s Book Week 2012 is Read a Book, Share a Story and celebrates the importance of sharing stories. 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Lillian H. Smith becoming the first trained children’s librarian in the British Empire and this year’s book week theme focuses on the important role that librarians play in sharing books and creating lifelong readers (download the theme guide here). The 2012 Book Week posted (image on left) was created by illustrator Janice Nadeau.
During TD Canadian Children’s Book Week twenty-nine English-speaking and five Francophone authors, illustrators and storytellers are visiting schools, libraries, bookstores and community centres in every province and territory across the country. In addition to the tour participants’ websites and blogs be sure to check out the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Facebook page to see the latest news, press clippings and pictures from the tour.
TD Canadian Children’s Book Week is organized by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre, in partnership with the Storytellers of Canada/Conteurs du Canada, and is made possible through the generous support of sponsors and funders.
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Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival~ ongoing until May 2, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
International Reading Association 57th Annual Conference~ ongoing until May 2, Chicago, IL, USA
Picture This: 90 Years of Storybook Art~ ongoing until May 6, Wenham, MA, USA
Buenos Aires Book Fair~ ongoing until May 12, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art, Children’s Literature, and the Environment: Art and Photography from Green Earth Book Awards~ ongoing until June 10, Salisbury, MD, USA
Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 2012, United Kingdom
2012 South Asia Book Award~ submissions accepted until Dec 31
SingTel Asian Picture Book Award 2013~ submissions accepted until Dec 31, 1012, Singapore
National Share-a-Story Month~ United Kingdom
Get Caught Reading Month~ USA
Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month~ USA
Asian Heritage Month~ Canada
National Year of Reading~ Australia
Paula Yoo’s Annual NaPiBoWriWee (National Picture Book Writing Week)~ May 1 – 7
Follow the Reader~ May 4, Brisbane, Australia
1st Klasrum Adarna House ECE Conference~ May 4 – 5, Quezon City, Philippines
Booktopia: West Vancouver’s Children’s Literary Festival~ May 4 – 12, West Vancouver, BC, Canada
Reading into Teens: an Introspective Exhibit~ May 4 – 31, West Vancouver, BC, Canada
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