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Calendar of Events

2006

April:

• 2nd- International Children's Book Day

• 5th-7th- Children's Book Festival in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; visit http://www-dept.usm.edu/~slis/bookfest.htm or call 601-266-4228 for more information

• 10th-16th- Young People's Poetry Week

• 21st and 22nd- A(ugusta) Baker's Dozen: A Celebration of Stories in Columbia, South Carolina; visit www.righland.lib.sc.us/baker.htm or call 803-929-3474 for more information

• 21st and 22nd- 37th Annual Children's Literature Conference in Athens, Georgia; visit http://www.coe.uga.edu/gcba/ for more information

• 29th and 30th- The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books; visit http://www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks/ for more information

May:

• 20th and 21st- The 21st Bay Area Storytelling Festival in San Francisco, California; visit www.bayareastorytelling.org or call 650-952-3397 or 510-869-4946 for more information

June:

• 2006 Canadian Library Association award winners to be announced

August:

• 12th-28th- Edinburgh International Book Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland; visit http://www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk/festivals.cfm?id=Book for more information

September:

• 20th- The 30th IBBY Congress in Beijing, China

• 30th- National Book Festival on the National Mall in Washington D.C. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  This event is free to the public.  Visit http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/ for more information

November:

• 3rd-4th- The seventh annual Georgia Literary Festival in Macon, Georgia.  Visit kbrown@historicmacon.org or contact Katey Brown, Curator, Sidney Lanier Cottage House Museum, 478-743-3851 for more information

• 13th-19th- Children's Book Week; visit http://www.cbcbooks.org/ for more information

• 23rd-26th- The Youth Festival in South Kensington, London; visit http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/general/actu/php for more information