Thursday, November 01, 2007
Children's Book Week is November 12 - 18, 2007...
November is here and the year is starting to wind down. This time of year always brings many holidays and reasons to celebrate. November also brings us Children's Book Week. A celebration of the written word, Children's Book Week introduces young people to new authors and ideas in schools, libraries, homes, and bookstores. Through Children's Book Week, the Children's Book Council encourages young people and their care givers to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experience through books. Children's Book Week will be observed November 12-18, 2007.
November is here and the year is starting to wind down. This time of year always brings many holidays and reasons to celebrate. November also brings us Children's Book Week. A celebration of the written word, Children's Book Week introduces young people to new authors and ideas in schools, libraries, homes, and bookstores. Through Children's Book Week, the Children's Book Council encourages young people and their care givers to discover the complexity of the world beyond their own experience through books. Children's Book Week will be observed November 12-18, 2007.Since 1919, educators, librarians, booksellers, and families have celebrated Children's Book Week during the week before Thanksgiving. Children's books and the love of reading are celebrated with storytelling, parties, author and illustrator appearances, and other book related events.
The need for Children's Book Week today is as essential as it was in 1919, and the task remains the realization of a crucial goal: "Book Week brings us together to talk about books and reading and, out of our knowledge and love of books, to put the cause of children's reading squarely before the whole community and, community by community, across the whole nation. For a great nation is a reading nation."
Check out the Children's Book Week website. Especially look at the "How to Celebrate" section and the "25 Ideas" page for some fun ways to promote Children's Book Week within your child care.
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 3:52 PM 
