

Want to learn more about these days? Click any of the days listed in blue to take you to an article where you can learn more!
February
Love Your Library Month
Black History Month

Groundhog Day – February 2
Take Your Child to the Library Day – February 4

Valentine’s Day – February 14
Library Lover’s Day– February 14

President’s Day – February 21
March
Women’s History Month
First Full Week – Return of Borrowed Books Week
First Full Week – Read an eBook Week
First Full Week – Teen Tech Week

Read Across America (Dr. Seuss’s Birthday) – March 2
The Ides of March (Julius Caesar is stabbed, 44 B.C.) – March 15
Freedom of Information Day – March 16

St. Patrick’s Day – March 17
April

April Fool’s Day – April 1
Beginning of Ramadan – April 2
International Children’s Book Day (Hans Christian Anderson’s Birthday) – April 2
National Library Week – April 3-9
Celebrate Teen Literature Day – April 7
D.E.A.R. Day (Beverly Cleary’s birthday)– April 12
National Library Workers Day – April 14
Easter Sunday – April 17
National Columnists Day (in memory of well-known columnist and 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner Ernie Pyle, who died in WWII) – April 18
Poem in Your Pocket Day – April 21

Earth Day – April 22

Shakespeare’s birthday – April 23

World Book Day– April 23

National Tell a Story Day– April 27
Children’s Book Day/El Dia de los Ninos – April 27