2020 Children’s Day, Book Day
April 30 & Every Other Day
Founded by author and poet Pat Mora, Children’s Day, Book Day is a year-long commitment celebrating the importance of bookjoy. It was inspired by the Mexican traditional holiday El día del niño (The Day of the Child) where Mora thought, “We have Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. We need kids’ day too, but I want to connect all children with bookjoy, the pleasure of reading.”
NCTE is joining the celebration! We encourage you to celebrate the joy of reading amongst your communities. Connect your students and yourself to books you love reading from all genres, all year long.
TOOLKIT
This Children’s Day, Book Day Toolkit will help you celebrate bookjoy in your classrooms and communities. Download it now.
- Build Your Stack Poster
- Printer-Friendly Bookmarks
- Printer-Friendly NCTE Position Statements
- Reading Resources to Share
#NCTEchat
Join the #NCTEchat on Sunday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. ET where we will discuss the joy of reading in efforts to celebrate Children’s Day, Book Day. We will be asking a series of questions to foster conversation around building our personal stack of favorite books and why they bring us joy.
If you’ve never participated in our #NCTEchat, check out the guidelines. The chat questions will be posted on the NCTE Blog the Sunday before the chat.
In the meantime, follow the bookjoy conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #NCTElearns!
BOOK GIVEAWAYS
We love reading books and we love talking about books. But what’s better than both of these things? Receiving books!
Courtesy of a grant NCTE received, for the first 25 days of April, we will be giving away a book per day to the members of the #NCTEvillage via social media. Books will include our Orbis Pictus and Charlotte Huck Award winning titles, titles authored by Pat Mora, and more.
To participate, you will need to be following our channels:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/@ncte.org
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ncte
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nctegram/