Share Filter Results Filter Results Event Duration Day Week Month Event Type Curricular Holiday Birthday Grade Level PK-K 1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-12 Curricular Area Art English Language Arts French Health History Math Music Physical Education STEAM Science Social Studies Spanish Genre Adventure Beginning / Early Reader Biography Concept Book Alphabet Color Number Season Shape Drama Fairy Tales / Folklore Graphic Novel Historical Fiction Holiday Horror Humor Mystery Nonfiction Picture Book Poetry Realistic Fiction Romance Science Fiction / Fantasy Sports Cultural Experience Any Cultural Experience African (Global) African African American American Indian Asian (Global) Asian Asian American South Asian Disability Gender Women / Girls Transgender / Non-Conforming Men / Boys Immigrant / Refugee Jewish Latino/a/e/x (Global) Latino (US / Canada) Latino (Latin America) LGBTQ+ Middle Eastern Multiracial / Mixed Race Muslim Pacific Islander / Oceania Literary Calendar April 2026 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 Bill Traylor's Birthday Tad Hills's Birthday Mathematics Awareness Month More... 2 Hans Christian Andersen's Birthday International Children's Book Day Maria Merian's Birthday More... 3 Jane Goodall's Birthday Sandra Boynton's Birthday Passover More... 4 International Mine Awareness Day Johanna Reiss's Birthday National Poetry Month More... 5 Easter Richard Peck's Birthday 6 Graeme Base's Birthday International Sport Day Jerdine Nolen's Birthday 7 International Day of Reflection on the Rwanda Genocide World Health Day 8 Trina Schart Hyman's Birthday National Public Health Week National Robotics Week 9 International Unicorn Day Margaret Peterson Haddix's Birthday Prisoners of War Remembrance Day 10 David A. Adler's Birthday National Siblings Day 11 Sharon M. Draper's Birthday Arab American Heritage Month 12 Beverly Cleary's Birthday Gary Soto's Birthday Harry Colebourn's Birthday More... 13 Holocaust Memorial Day / Yom ha-Shoah Lee Bennett Hopkins's Birthday Rita Williams-Garcia's Birthday 14 We Need Diverse Books Day Alcohol Awareness Month School Library Month 15 Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic Jackie Robinson Day Jacqueline Briggs Martin's Birthday 16 Autism Acceptance Month 17 Jane Kurtz's Birthday 18 Anniversary of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Superman Day Genocide Prevention and Awareness Month More... 19 Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing Jon Agee's Birthday Jazz Appreciation Month More... 20 Patriots' Day UN Chinese Language Day National Library Week More... 21 Barbara Park's Birthday Tony Sarg's Birthday National Volunteer Week (Canada) More... 22 Earth Day National Library Outreach Day 23 UN English Language Day UN Spanish Language Day World Book Day 24 Arbor Day Gathering of Nations Loren Long's Birthday 25 Anzac Day Stuart J. Murphy's Birthday 26 Anniversary of the Sinking of the Whydah Marilyn Nelson's Birthday Patricia Reilly Giff's Birthday 27 Canadian Children's Book Week World Immunization Week 28 Harper Lee's Birthday Lois Duncan's Birthday Preservation Week More... 29 Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Birthday Duke Ellington's Birthday 30 El dia de los libros / El dia de los ninos (Book Day / Children's Day) International Jazz Day Embed this Literary Calendar on your website
